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[726] [roadmap-salmon-7] Many Alaska runs are still large and limited-entry managed. That success is not transferable to a heavily dammed Columbia without the same habitat. 190 Marine fat built on plankton and forage fish, then spent on the upstream fast. Semelparous Pacific bodies become the forest fertiliser. The feeding kit sets the ecological-role score relative to the other 23 types. 2014: lo
Isotope studies show marine nitrogen in riparian trees and songbirds. Bears and eagles are the visible vectors; the trees keep the receipt. After 2011-14, sediment flushed and salmon recolonised reaches above the old dams faster than some models feared -- a rare full-height teardown.
They keep harvest numbers up and can dilute wild fitness. The argument is now about proportions, not existence. Why are Atlantic salmon a different politics? Wild S. salar collapsed in much of Europe and New England. Farmed Atlantic salmon in net pens are a separate industry with sea-louse and escape files.
Many Alaska runs are still large and limited-entry managed. That success is not transferable to a heavily dammed Columbia without the same habitat. Olfactory imprinting on natal water plus celestial and magnetic cues. A ladder that smells wrong is a closed door. Did Boldt (1974) change more than courtrooms?
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Salmon is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo. 2014: log Salmon under “Elwha complete” with 2014. Do not rank the species. 20142014
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2014
- Figure to keep
- 2014
- Species
- Salmon
- Line in the log
- Elwha complete
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