Salmon · Anadromous fishes that move ocean fat onto spawning gravels -- and into forests, treaties and hydropower fights.
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Most Oncorhynchus (Pacific) are semelparous. Salmo salar can spawn more than once. The postcard of corpses on gravel is a Pacific-weighted image.
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.
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.
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David Menke · Public domain
Five to seven species that still define Alaska summers.
Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp., North Pacific) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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User:Wolfgang Striewski · Public domain
Wild collapse beside a huge farmed industry.
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, North Atlantic) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ladder-and-turbine compromise on the Columbia.
Bonneville Dam (1938-, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Type-case dam removal.
Elwha River restoration (2011-14, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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U.S. Government · Public domain
Treaty harvest share in western Washington.
Boldt Decision (1974, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Kamchatka and stronghold science.
Wild Salmon Center (1990s-, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Still-productive industrial fishery under permit limits.
Alaska limited-entry (1973-, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Milton Love, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 · Public domain
Snake River icon of single-digit returns.
Redfish Lake sockeye (ESA 1991, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Clipped smolts keep boats busy. Introgression and density effects keep geneticists opposed to more boxes.
Elwha argued for teardown. The Snake and Columbia still argue in gigawatts.
Apex lamnid whose warm muscle, broad diet and 1975 cinema still outrun the tagging papers.
Overall 66 🐟A warm-bodied tuna whose Tokyo auction prices and ICCAT quotas made a single fish into a geopolitical unit.
Overall 54 🐠Anemone-dwelling damselfish whose 2003 film fame became a capture-and-reef case study.
Overall 41 🐴Male-pregnancy fish — Hippocampus since Linnaeus (1758), dried trade, and CITES Appendix II (2002).
Overall 28 🎏Domesticated carp whose Niigata colour mutations became a global pond aesthetic -- not a wild goldfish substitute.
Overall 42 🐡Beak-toothed inflators whose tetrodotoxin made a Japanese cuisine and a genome project out of one family.
Overall 41 ⚡Amazon knifefishes whose stacked electrocytes taught Humboldt, Volta arguments and a 2019 species split.
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