1.   As hatcheries sent million of young salmon into the Pacific, the mackeral feasted off a vital northwest resource.

2.   Barges and tanker trucks have been used to give young salmon a lift down the river, past the dams.

3.   A key assumption here is that more water would be flowed through the Snake, cooling the river and helping sweep young salmon seaward.

4.   A test of this strategy in another stream increased the number of surviving young salmon a thousandfold, said Mark Grenbemer, a member of the watershed restoration team.

5.   After the storms, Fish and Game found small fish, likely young salmon, stranded in an orchard from a minor levee break.

6.   But young salmon must run a gantlet of eight dams en route to the Pacific Ocean.

7.   Out-migrating young salmon and steelhead run into their first salt water near Rice Island, and some linger to adjust.

8.   Still others tell readers there are other threats to Pacific Northwest salmon, such as Caspian terns feasting on young salmon in Washington rivers.

9.   The Caspian tern banks and lands on the sand, a young salmon dangling from its beak.

10.   The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has barged millions of young salmon around the dams, but few of them return to the river as adults to spawn.