{"id":3452,"date":"2025-03-07T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T05:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2025-03-07T21:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T05:23:41","slug":"first-sighting-of-home-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/first-sighting-of-home-hatch\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST SIGHTING OF \u2018HOME HATCH\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3452\" class=\"elementor elementor-3452\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f54d8dd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f54d8dd\" 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-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f7ba448\" data-id=\"f7ba448\" 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-35f1e17 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"35f1e17\" 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 Feb. 26, volunteer monitors sighted 15 active \u201chome hatch\u201d fry darting around in lower Fauntleroy Creek \u2013 evidence that at least some eggs left last fall by coho spawners survived the winter.<\/p><p>Spawners had left them under a blanket of loose gravel for protection.\u00a0 The eggs hatched into alevin equipped with a yolk sac to sustain them until they were mature enough to emerge and forage for themselves.\u00a0 Next spring, they will leave the creek for two years in saltwater.<\/p><p>The same transformation is playing out as students in the Salmon in the Schools program rear their own fish.\u00a0 We expect to host 18 releases by area schools in May.<\/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\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 26, volunteer monitors sighted 15 active \u201chome hatch\u201d fry darting around in lower Fauntleroy Creek \u2013 evidence that at least some eggs left last fall by coho spawners survived the winter. Spawners had left them under a blanket of loose gravel for protection.\u00a0 The eggs hatched into alevin equipped with a yolk sac &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/first-sighting-of-home-hatch\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FIRST SIGHTING OF \u2018HOME HATCH\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/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],"tags":[12,48,13,32,24,15],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salmon","tag-fauntleroy-creek","tag-salmon-hatch","tag-salmon-return","tag-salmon-spawning","tag-seattle","tag-west-seattle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","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=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}