Friday’s Top of the Scroll: Chinook Salmon Thrive In Flooded-Field Experiment
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
“Researchers who fattened young chinook salmon in flooded fields after the rice harvest last winter reported Thursday that the fish grew fast and to record sizes, offering a promising new way to improve survival of the long-threatened salmon.
“As youngsters, those rare but delectable fish of the Sacramento River swim to the ocean each spring and reach adulthood there before returning to spawn in the river’s tributaries. But each year, predators kill millions of the young fish as they reach the sea because the fish are too small and helpless to escape.”
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