The smolt body chemistry changes, allowing them to live in saltwater.

Many smolt are killed when they pass through turbines.

So much is dependent on the quality of the smolts as they leave, and he was happy with the smolt release last year.

At this point, the salmon are called smolt.

This has led to some areas transporting smolt downstream by barge during parts of the year.

It requests permission before uploading new data to the Smolt server.

On the Pacific Coast where the smolt are much smaller, only one or two can be critical, often resulting in death.

The smolt that result from fry stocked upriver also face this obstacle, of course.

Once the fish have reached the smolt phase, they are taken out to sea where they are held for up to two years.

Once ready, young smolt leave, preferring an ebb tide.

A smolt is a small salmon (weighing about 3 ounces) that is ready to leave fresh water and go to sea.

In addition to this, significant numbers of smolt - young salmon headed downriver to the sea - are killed when they pass through turbines.

Before Smolt there was no widely accepted system for assembling Linux statistics in one place.

The smolt server, at http://www.smolts.org/, stores all collected data.

When parr develop into smolt, they begin the trip to the ocean, which predominantly happens between March and June.

This study also found that beaver ponds increased smolt salmon production 80 times more than the placement of large woody debris.

Egan said the commission also believed that the dams must have facilities to ease the downstream passage of smolt.

Since the 1990s, however, the population has recovered somewhat, in part due to improvements in the smolt trapping and transportation system.

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Steelhead smolt spend the first two years of their lives in freshwater, requiring perennial streams, or at least pools, to survive.

It may be, the commission says, that some of the smolt have been released prematurely, subjecting them to prolonged in-river predation.

However, challenges to outgoing smolt migration include low to no stream flows downstream of the dam or predation in the coastal estuary.

Evidence points to exhaustion of smolt oversummering in the creek due to a loss of large woody debris and deep pools where young salmon can rest.

Does ADF&G release triploid smolt?

When they have matured sufficiently in late spring, and are about 15 to 20 centimetres long, the smolt swim out of the rivers and into the sea.