Ocean 115 - Introduction to Oceanography » Spring 2022 » Salmon Video

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Question #1
What happened to the salmon when they reached their spawning grounds in Idaho? Where do they go?
A.   They are scooped, weighed and measured and then taken to a warehouse nearby
B.   They spawn in the thousands and then die
C.   They migrate back out to the ocean
D.   They get shredded by bears
Question #2
Where do salmon spend most of their lives?
A.   In hatcheries
B.   It varies depending on the salmon
C.   In rivers in the northwestern US
D.   In the Pacific Ocean
Question #3
What do the Idaho sockeye have to cross to reproduce?
A.   Eight dams
B.   Three dams
C.   One giant dam
D.   One hundred twenty three dams
Question #4
What provides “kick start” for life in the Idaho Mountains?
A.   Salmon
B.   Potatoes
C.   Birch trees
D.     
E.   Eagles
F.   Maple trees
Question #5
How many dams does the Columbia River basin have?
A.   140
B.   20
C.   400
D.   40
E.   1400
Question #6
How many hatcheries does the Columbia River basin have instead?
A.   190
B.   170
C.   23
D.   123
E.   1100
Question #7
So, if 90% plus of salmon eggs become salmon that can be released, why are the salmon hatcheries leaving them more vulnerable?
A.   they are afraid to leave the hatchery and will not swim away
B.   they need to be bottle fed
C.   they are losing their genetic diversity, through inbreeding
D.   they can no longer live in the salt water of the ocean
Question #8
How does Yani tie into the hatcheries?
A.   He is a major donor to the hatcheries
B.   He is representative of how the hatcheries reproduce a limited diversity of salmon just like if a radio station only played Yani Yani and Yani
C.   He is played by underwater speakers to keep the salmon calm
D.   He has four dams named after him
Question #9
What bad habit(s) have the salmon learned in the hatcheries?
A.   they now have to face forward instead of backwards down the stream, so they lose all of their energy
B.   being feed on the top of the water
C.   they have to jump making them leery of their natural food
Question #10
How much can a pikeminnow bounty hunter make per fish?
A.   $36
B.   $28
C.   $3
D.   $11
E.   $26
F.   $8
Question #11
How many salmon book passage by barge or truck down the river?
A.   250,000 salmon
B.   2 billion salmon
C.   25 million salmon
D.   20 million salmon
E.     
F.   2 million salmon
Question #12
What have the terns and cormorants figured out?
A.   When and where the salmon barge will release young salmon
B.   How to catch the salmon in the open ocean
C.   How to migrate across the US to feed on Atlantic and Pacific salmon
D.   That humans will shoot them to protect young salmon
Question #13
What percent of salmon swim past the Bonnevile Dam today as did 100 years ago?
A.   < 8%
B.   < 71%
C.   < 67%
D.   < 1%
E.   < 31%
Question #14
How much money have the tribes of the northwest lost due to the decline in salmon?
A.   Trillions of dollars
B.   Thousands of dollars
C.   Billions of dollars
D.     
E.   Millions of dollars
Question #15
How long was the Chinook salmon hunt in 2009?
A.   24 nights through dusk and dawn
B.   3 nights through dusk and dawn
C.   14 nights through dusk and dawn
D.   2 years
E.   2 months
Question #16
What do the hatchery fish not do?
A.   They are unable to be caught on a rod and reel
B.   They do not make it back to the river removing the “kick start” from the area
C.   Swim effectively
D.   They are unable to reproduce being sterile
Question #17
What happened to the Savage Rapid Dams on the Rogue River?
A.   In 2009 the Savage Rapid Dam was destroyed
B.   In 2009 the Savage Rapid Dam was remodeled with a fish ladder
C.   In 2009 the Savage Rapid Dam was sold and its electricity is exported to China
D.   In 2009 the Savage Rapid Dam was raised in height
Question #18
How can we restore the salmon numbers?
A.   By increasing the number of dams
B.   By hunting more salmon predators like bears and eagles
C.   By removing dams and restoring the natural river cycle
D.   By increasing the number of hatcheries
Question #19
How many sockeye past all 8 dams in Idaho in 2006?
A.   13,000
B.   1
C.   1357
D.   357
E.   3
Question #20
What did a federal judge order and why did that make a difference in 2010?
A.   The judge ordered the dams be closed ending the salmon run
B.   The judge ordered the dams to spill the water and over then the next few years thirteen hundred salmon came back
C.   The judge ordered the hatcheries to close and all the salmon are now gone

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