{"id":44427,"date":"2019-03-09T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/scientists-see-improved-ocean-conditions-for-young-salmon\/"},"modified":"2019-03-11T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:22:56","slug":"scientists-see-improved-ocean-conditions-for-young-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/scientists-see-improved-ocean-conditions-for-young-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists see improved ocean conditions for young salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &mdash; Young salmon could see improved conditions this year off the Washington and Oregon coasts.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Times reports scientists in a conference call with reporters say the ocean is more hospitable for salmon entering the ocean, several year after an unusually warm water event.<\/p>\n<p>A marine heat wave dubbed &ldquo;The Blob&rdquo; disrupted the ocean food chain.<\/p>\n<p>Research biologist Chris Harvey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says scientists are seeing several signs of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Research surveys in 2018 confirmed that tiny animals stoking the food web are healthy and fat.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers report important forage fish, anchovies, are increasing in number and that fish-eating sea birds are doing well.<\/p>\n<p>But they say subsurface sea temperatures remain warmer than average in some areas.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young salmon could see improved conditions this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44427"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}