The young snakes prey on recently hatched steelhead trout and chinook salmon and on the tadpoles of yellow-legged frogs. |
Each run of Pacific chinook, coho, sockeye, pink, and chum salmon knows how to survive in a specific spawning stream. |
To begin with, the orcas' main prey, chinook salmon, are themselves listed as threatened in Puget Sound. |
Conservation groups want to preserve one of the best remaining chinook salmon and steelhead runs in the West. |
Similar geography produces an excess of positive over negative ions in Canada's chinook winds. |
The plankton blooms began to occur a couple of weeks early, and the chinook promptly disappeared from our usual winter spots. |