Salmon may have been too tired to navigate Whitehorse fish ladder, research suggests
The chair of an advisory group on managing salmon stocks in Yukon says there are lots of questions to be answered, about why fewer salmon seem to be reaching and passing through the Whitehorse fish ladder.
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Posted: Feb 16, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 16
Chinook salmon swim by the Whitehorse fish ladder. The chair of the Yukon Salmon Sub-committee says 2020 was a particularly tough year for spawning salmon in the Yukon River.(Claudiane Samson/Radio-Canada)
The chair of an advisory group on managing salmon stocks in Yukon says there are lots of questions to be answered about why fewer salmon seem to be reaching and passing through the Whitehorse fish ladder.
Scientists puzzled by 30,000 chinook that seem to be missing from Yukon River
There s a mystery in Yukon and Alaska and it involves about 30,000 missing chinook salmon. A Jan. 26 meeting of the Yukon River Panel focused on a surprising discrepancy between measurements at two different sonar stations.
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