Spring run Chinook transmitter.jpg

Photo By/Credit

Steve Martarano/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
11/12/2021
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Fisheries biologists Michelle Workman of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, right, and Elif Wilkins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration implant a tiny transmitter in a juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon, enabling the San Joaquin River Restoration Program to track the salmon’s journey from the river release site to the ocean.
Ecosystem
River/stream
Subject tags
Anadromous fish
Rivers and streams