{"id":3717,"date":"2026-03-12T13:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:11:16","slug":"documenting-our-smolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/documenting-our-smolts\/","title":{"rendered":"DOCUMENTING OUR SMOLTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soft net traps are now installed in the upper and lower creek so that volunteers can count how many coho smolts head to saltwater.&nbsp; Monitors will be checking each trap twice daily through May.&nbsp; Begun in 2003, this annual study documents how well juveniles survive during their year in the creek.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 4\u201d-5\u201d long \u201cteenagers\u201d were released last spring by students or are the result of fall 2024 spawning.&nbsp; Once in Fauntleroy Cove, they will fatten up before heading farther afield for their two years in saltwater.&nbsp; The count since 2021 has ranged from 11 to 49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo by Dave Gershgorn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft net traps are now installed in the upper and lower creek so that volunteers can count how many coho smolts head to saltwater.&nbsp; Monitors will be checking each trap twice daily through May.&nbsp; Begun in 2003, this annual study documents how well juveniles survive during their year in the creek.&nbsp; The 4\u201d-5\u201d long \u201cteenagers\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/documenting-our-smolts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DOCUMENTING OUR SMOLTS<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3716,"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":[12,21,32],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salmon","tag-fauntleroy-creek","tag-fauntleroy-watershed","tag-salmon-spawning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/coho-smolt-study-photo-by-dave-gershgorn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fauntleroywatershed.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}