Streamful of Sockeye Salmon (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Streamful of Sockeye Salmon

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Sockeye salmon race up their native Alaskan stream to spawn. Being able to tell this population of salmon from others is the goal of an project, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, to gather genetic information about Pacific salmon and compile it into an international database.

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Thomas Quinn

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