COLUMBIA VERSUS FRASER RIVER

 
Kintama has worked extensively on salmon conservation issues in British Columbia.  Here is a comparison of the movements of smolts from the undammed Fraser River and the 8-dam Columbia – see Application page for more detail.  Our research paper on relative smolt survival in these two systems went to the “top 10” list in Google New’s Science & Technology when it was published! 

Read the Journal article here

Snake (Columbia) and Thompson (Fraser) River Chinook and Steelhead animation:

Click on the box in the lower right corner for the full-screen animation