{"id":2077,"date":"2022-02-26T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T18:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2022-02-26T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T19:00:27","slug":"fry-emergence-in-fauntleroy-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/26\/fry-emergence-in-fauntleroy-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Fry Emergence in Fauntleroy Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2077\" class=\"elementor elementor-2077\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-793f1bc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"793f1bc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-682ed87\" data-id=\"682ed87\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49ef5be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49ef5be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On February 19, volunteer Dennis Hinton spotted the first &#8220;home hatch&#8221; left in November by 244 coho spawners in lower Fauntleroy Creek.\u00a0 About an inch long, they&#8217;re emerging from loose gravel to feed on vegetation and insect larva in the cold water.<\/p><p>With so many spawners leaving fertilized eggs, we are expecting a big crop of fry to be learning to hunt for food.\u00a0 They already know how to avoid predators, such that only experienced monitors have a chance of seeing them.<\/p><p>Starting in mid-March, volunteers will check soft traps daily to count how many smolts survived their year in the upper and lower creek to head for saltwater.\u00a0 Then in May, schoolchildren will be releasing fry in Fauntleroy Park through the Salmon in the Schools program.<\/p><p><em>Video by Tom Trulin\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-94d61b0\" data-id=\"94d61b0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2dd1c9a elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"2dd1c9a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/npBoMjQ04kM&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so many spawners leaving fertilized eggs, we are expecting a big crop of fry to be learning to hunt for food.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salmon","category-uncategorized","tag-salmon-fry-fauntleroy-creek","tag-salmon-in-the-schools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}