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  • advocacy
    Active support.

  • alevin
    An embryonic development stage of salmonids, recently hatched from the egg but not yet absorbed the yolk sac or emerged from the spawning gravel.

  • algae
    A group of chlorophyll-bearing plants distributed in salt and fresh water, including seaweeds and kelps.

  • anadromous fish
    (1) Fish which mature in ocean water and spawn in fresh water.
    (2) Pacific salmon, sea-run cutthroat trout, steelhead, sea-run dolly varden, oolichans.

  • aquatic
    Associated with water.

  • aquifer
    Underground water body.