Sentences with chinook
Chi·nook
C c - Facedown in the water, a jolt of fear shot through me the first time I came face-to-face with a chinook, which aimed straight at me before veering sharply away.
- Each run of Pacific chinook, coho, sockeye, pink, and chum salmon knows how to survive in a specific spawning stream.
- The plankton blooms began to occur a couple of weeks early, and the chinook promptly disappeared from our usual winter spots.
- Finally things have begun to heat up a bit for the winter chinook fishery as the numbers of fish continued to increase throughout February.
- The Seymour hatchery raises and releases about 750,000 smolts annually, including pink, chum, coho, chinook salmon, cutthroat trout and steelhead.
- Construction timing, geared toward the beginning of 2005, coincides with the birth and early life cycles of sockeye, chinook and coho salmon, steelhead and sea-running cutthroat trout.
- To begin with, the orcas' main prey, chinook salmon, are themselves listed as threatened in Puget Sound.
- In Alberta, Canada, those complaints revolve around chinooks, the warm winds that sweep the area during winter.
- But Striped Bass is a predator that may be impeding the recovery of listed species including steelhead trout, chinook salmon, delta smelt and splittail.
- The young snakes prey on recently hatched steelhead trout and chinook salmon and on the tadpoles of yellow-legged frogs.
- Nailing down the differences between sockeye and chinook salmon could take years, however.
- Conversely, if chinook winds weaken or cease, the cold air can move back in from the east, and the temperature will drop just as suddenly.
- In the Sacramento River, juvenile chinook salmon comprised up to 65% of the prey volume in striped bass stomachs sampled.
- Conservation groups want to preserve one of the best remaining chinook salmon and steelhead runs in the West.
- In early May 1992, the National Marine Fisheries Service listed the Snake River chinook salmon as a threatened species.
- Each fish kept must be noted on the licence and no more than 15 chinooks can be retained from the Strait in a year.
- Warm chinook winds from over the mountains to the west created the first open pastures as winter waned.
- And the parasite is remarkably similar to the ‘rosette agent’ found occasionally in salmon, including chinook salmon, which can also cause mortality.
- A 2000 study published in Neurology found that when warm westerly winds, called the chinook winds, came off the Canadian Rockies, migraines increased in patients.
- In Butte Creek in California's Central Valley, only 14 spawning spring-run chinooks returned to the creek in 1987.
- When the London explosions were announced this morning the chinooks overhead increased - clearly taking Mr Blair and colleagues back to London to assess the situation.
- In southern Washington, this monument encompasses the last free-flowing, nontidal stretch of the Columbia River in the United States, where 80 percent of the river's chinook salmon spawn.
- Here, near where Sacagawea was reunited with her family, Bannocks and Sheepeaters fished the mountain stream for the chinook salmon that filled its waters each summer.