: a young salmon or sea trout about two years old that is at the stage of development when it assumes the silvery color of the adult and is ready to migrate to the sea
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That last detail was crucial for the truck's cargo: some 102,000 spring Chinook smolts, or young salmon, that had been raised in a hatchery.
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Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
The Nez Perc Tribe, which co-manages the area’s salmon fishery with the ODFW, helped the department collect the dead smolts that didn’t make it into the water while also scanning for trackable tags and tallying the loss.
—Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
About 77,000 of the smolts made it into the water of Lookingglass Creek below—but 25,529 were not so lucky.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Of the approximately 102,000 spring Chinook smolts that spilled out of the 53-foot truck last week, more than 25,000 fish didn’t survive.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
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Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
The Nez Perc Tribe, which co-manages the area’s salmon fishery with the ODFW, helped the department collect the dead smolts that didn’t make it into the water while also scanning for trackable tags and tallying the loss.
—Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
About 77,000 of the smolts made it into the water of Lookingglass Creek below—but 25,529 were not so lucky.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Of the approximately 102,000 spring Chinook smolts that spilled out of the 53-foot truck last week, more than 25,000 fish didn’t survive.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Smolt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smolt. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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