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A 15-Day Window Could Decide the Fate of California’s Most Endangered Salmon
AI KEY TAKEAWAYS (TL;DR)
- Chinook salmon need cold water during the first weeks of development for their eggs to survive
- California’s most endangered salmon now survive as a single population in the Sacramento River, far from much of the cold mountain habitat where they once spawned
- Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon have averaged only a few thousand returning adults [
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Chinook salmon need cold water during the first weeks of development for their eggs to survive. California’s most endangered salmon now survive as a single population in the Sacramento River, far from much of the cold mountain habitat where they once spawned. Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon have averaged only a few thousand returning adults [...]
