{"id":3272,"date":"2016-11-16T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2016-11-16T08:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:03:24","slug":"why-are-salmon-dying-its-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3272","title":{"rendered":"Why are salmon dying? (Hint: It&#8217;s a good thing&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/interactive.tegna-media.com\/video\/embed\/embed.html?id=2425141&amp;type=video&amp;title=Why%20are%20the%20salmon%20dying%3F&amp;site=103&amp;playerid=6918249996581&amp;dfpid=32805352&amp;dfpposition=Video_prestream_external\u00a7ion=home\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Dead salmon are washing up on banks of the American River. It sounds gruesome but it&#8217;s actually a good thing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The annual salmon run is underway and the fish have traveled thousands of miles to spawn then die in our waterways.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Within the last decade we have seen a downward trend,&#8221; said Department of Fish and Wildlife researcher Jeana Phillips. The DFW keeps a close eye on the salmon population. Every year a team of researchers count dead salmon after they have spawned.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The American River Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Rancho Cordova is full of salmon right now. A number of salmon in the American River were released from the Nimbus Fish Hatchery. Salmon hatch in rivers then make their way to the ocean where they spend 3 to 4 years. When they are ready to breed. Salmon leave the ocean, head back to the area they were born, lay eggs, then die.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc10.com\/news\/local\/why-are-salmon-dying\/352700459\">ABC10.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead salmon are washing up on banks of the American River. It sounds gruesome but it&#8217;s actually a good thing. The annual salmon run is underway and the fish have traveled thousands of miles to spawn then die in our waterways. &#8220;Within the last decade we have seen a downward trend,&#8221; said Department of Fish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why are salmon dying? (Hint: It&#8217;s a good thing&#8230;)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12,28,13,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-trail","category-events","category-fish","category-history","category-salmon","category-water","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}