RIVERSLAB — January 29, 2026

The salmon lifecycle is often presented as a clear cut progression: eggs hatch in the river, young grow and swim out to sea, spend a few years in the ocean, then return to their home stream to spawn. Increasingly, however, new evidence is uncovering complexities in this seemingly straightforward life history. One exciting new paper sheds light on the most understudied portion of a salmon’s life—the time between leaving their home rivers and growing to adult sizes. Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta-nurseries that connect rivers via the sea (Munsch et. al, 2025) has implications for salmon conservation across the Pacific.

Join us at 1 pm on Thursday, January 29th at the SYRCL Office for a discussion of this paper in particular, as well as the complex life-history of salmonids in general.

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