{"id":3393,"date":"2024-11-27T21:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2024-11-27T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:58:03","slug":"spawning-season-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/spawning-season-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"SPAWNING SEASON OVER (AGAIN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DenBoardFinalTT-1.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DenBoardFinalTT-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DenBoardFinalTT-1-300x278.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"594\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shortly after calling Salmon Watch 2024 a done deal on Nov. 10 with 19 coho spawners, more began streaming into lower Fauntleroy Creek.\u00a0 A few volunteers came back on duty to keep counting fish and monitoring drift logs to ensure that newcomers could access the mouth of the creek.\u00a0 By Nov. 24 when the season again appeared to be over, they had tallied 347 vigorous spawners \u2013 a considerable increase over the previous high of 274 in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At least 400 visitors came to see fish and learn about habitat and stewardship.\u00a0 They included student groups ranging from preschoolers to high schoolers.<\/p>\n<p>Tiny \u201chome hatch\u201d fry should emerge from their protective blanket of gravel in three to four months.\u00a0 They will feed in the creek for just over a year before leaving for saltwater.<\/p>\n<p>Photo of Dennis Hinton and this year&#8217;s count of spawners by \u00a0Tom Trulin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after calling Salmon Watch 2024 a done deal on Nov. 10 with 19 coho spawners, more began streaming into lower Fauntleroy Creek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3395,"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],"tags":[12,47,32,37],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salmon","tag-fauntleroy-creek","tag-salmon-return-2024","tag-salmon-spawning","tag-spawning-salmon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DenBoardFinalTT.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","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=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}