Fish-eating Birds Kill Half, Or More, Of Upper Columbia Steelhead Smolts, Research Shows
- February 19, 2020
- John Harrison
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Juvenile fish face a multitude of dangers as they migrate down the Columbia and Snake rivers to the ocean every spring – disease, water temperature and quality, hydropower dam passage, predatory fish, but the extent of predation by birds is alarming.