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Both Chinook and steelhead salmon populations have struggled for decades throughout California. Researchers tracking them in the American River say their work informs efforts to boost their numbers.
Revolutionary Techniques Using Environmental DNA Are Analysing Entire Ecosystems 26/04/2021 Representative image of an underwater ecosystem. Photo: Hung Tran/Pexels Hilary Starks couldn’t wait to get her first three samples of the day. She was standing expectantly on the deck of the 117-foot research vessel Western Flyer in 2015, searching the waters of California’s Monterey Bay below. The winch on deck started moving as pulleys and wires slowly lifted what she was waiting for: a five-foot submersible carrying large plastic bottles full of seawater. Starks, then a lab technici...