How to Use smolt in a Sentence

smolt

noun

• Minnows tend to work best in the mornings and then swimbaits in the evenings as the stripers feed on the steelhead smolts.
  — sacbee, 29 Jan. 2018
• Spawning salmon means salmon smolt, and there aren't a lot of things that rainbows and char like to eat more.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2018
• Each spring, the sockeye smolt swam unimpeded to the sea for the cycle to begin anew.
  — Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021
• That’s because there are so many animals that prey on smolts.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• On the edge of a hill sprinkled with sheep, above a quiet two-lane highway, sits the smolt site for HiddenFjord fish farm.
  — Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
• A pump failure caused thousands of king salmon smolts to die last week at the Feather River Hatchery.
  — By Roger George and Dave Hurley, sacbee.com, 15 May 2017
• The smolt will spend a year feeding and growing in the Pacific Ocean before returning.
  — Bill Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2022
• Cooke’s request for a permit to transfer the smolts to open-water net pens for growing to harvest size was denied for the same reason, Warheit said.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2018
• Before the Snake River dams were built, three to six of every 100 fish that left their natal streams returned home, a ratio called smolt-to-adult return.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• In many cases, the pens were towed offshore into deeper water before setting the smolts free.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2020
• Schools of smolt salmon flicker like quicksilver, preparing for their journey out to sea.
  — Neil Ever Osborne, Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2017
• Hatchery managers release more than half a billion pink salmon smolts into Prince William Sound each year, some to be caught by fishermen.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
• Burbot may also be lurking in the shallows chasing sockeye smolt.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Hatchery steelhead smolts are expected to be released early this week, which should lead to good striper fishing river wide.
  — sacbee, 29 Jan. 2018
• Striper fishing was good last week after steelhead smolts were released at Discovery.
  — By Roger George and Dave Hurley, sacbee.com, 6 June 2017
• Washington state tested smolt in a Cooke Aquaculture incubator and found the Atlantic salmon had a strain of Icelandic virus.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2018
• Just a few miles downstream from the hatchery, anglers have been gathering along the waterway in downtown Anchorage to catch returning adult salmon who left the hatchery as smolt years ago.
  — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2021
• No one, especially biologists, want salmon smolts to end up in dipnets.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
• Fry and smolts almost immediately begin using the trees for protection from larger fish and birds.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Federal scientists are monitoring this year’s cohort to see how well the smolt survive the 352-mile journey from the base of Shasta Dam to the Golden Gate by attaching acoustic tags to hundreds of hatchery fish.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2022
• Many of these studies showed our out-migrating smolt were not surviving within months of entering the marine environment.
  — Sam Cotten, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2018
• HiddenFjord is now incorporating Power Hub into a new warehouse at its smolt site.
  — Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
• Decades later, ocean warming from climate change appears to be recreating those same conditions that limit food supply in the sea, just as billions more smolt are poured into it annually.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2021
• The Nez Perce and Yakama tribes have created novel fish hatcheries that mimic natural conditions of camouflage and river flow, to improve smolt survival.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• While specific causes have not been identified, the department is confident that our statewide downturn in productivity can point directly back at smolt survival after entering the ocean.
  — Sam Cotten, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2018
• The outbound smolt migration is also influenced by water temperatures.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024