smolts

• That study reveals that only 8\% of the juvenile salmon (smolts) make it to the West Delta - when the Sacramento River salmon survival of 20\% is combined with the Delta survival of 40\%. —  Indybay newswire
• Wild smolts are at risk for bacterial kidney disease, Scofield said. —  HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
• The fry become parr, which go to the sea as smolts, and return as grilse In all cases the small figures to the right indicate the natural size Illustration: THE SALMON LEAPING AT THE FALL IS A MOST FASCINATING SPECTACLE Again and again we see them jumping out of the seething foam beneath the fall, casting themselves into the curtain of the down-rushing water, only to be carried back by it into the depths whence they have risen. —  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
• They are non-intrusionists, who have at first refused to sign the terms of the Convocation; but finding themselves eventually rather out of their element, on the wrong side of the cruive dyke, and not wishing to fall as fry into the cook's hands, have sea-ceded some time after the disruption of their General Assembly Even those smolts which descend together in April and May, (the chief periods of migration,) do not agree in size. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
• The rapidity with which the two-year-old parr are converted into smolts, and the timid habits of the new-hatched fry, which render them almost entirely invisible during the first few months of their existence,--these two circumstances combined, have no doubt induced the erroneous belief that the silvery smolts were the actual produce of the very season in which they are first observed in their migratory dress: that is, that they were only a few weeks old, instead of being upwards of two years. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843

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