salts

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Later in the spring, state hatchery managers plan to release nearly 2 million Chinook salmon smolts into the river.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2024

The young salmon, or smolts, lucky enough to drop into the creek are expected to persevere in their migration from the Grande Ronde River to the ocean.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024

The new generation heads downstream to the ocean as hand-size smolts.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 9, 2023

No smolts were released into the North Umpqua last summer either because of wildfires.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2022

But it is midsummer before the regularly migrating smolts reappear as grilse.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various