{"id":1074,"date":"2019-06-06T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2019-06-06T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:48:04","slug":"salmon-merging-onto-new-highway-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/salmon-merging-onto-new-highway-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon merging onto new \u2018highway\u2019 in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Beekman<br \/>\nSeattle Times staff reporter<\/p>\n<p>Next time you\u2019re visiting Seattle\u2019s downtown waterfront and gazing out across Elliott Bay toward the majestic Olympic Mountains, look down. You might see a shoal of silvery baby salmon, each about 3 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>You might also see a snorkeler counting fish, because University of Washington researchers are studying habitat improvements built along the city\u2019s $410 million new seawall, which stretches 3,100 feet between the Seattle Aquarium and the Colman Dock ferry terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Their observations are preliminary \u2014 yet promising. Since the wall was completed in 2017, the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences researchers have repeatedly witnessed juvenile salmon swimming under the wooden piers that extend out over the waterfront, where they almost never ventured before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/salmon-are-swimming-past-downtown-along-seattles-new-highway-for-fish\/\">Salmon merging onto new \u2018highway\u2019 in Seattle, complete with rest stops and restaurants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Beekman Seattle Times staff reporter Next time you\u2019re visiting Seattle\u2019s downtown waterfront and gazing out across Elliott Bay toward the majestic Olympic Mountains, look down. You might see a shoal of silvery baby salmon, each about 3 inches long. You might also see a snorkeler counting fish, because University of Washington researchers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-article","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}