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  2. Salmon - Wikipedia

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    Salmon are typically anadromous: they hatch in the shallow gravel beds of freshwater headstreams and spend their juvenile years in rivers, lakes and freshwater wetlands, migrate to the ocean as adults and live like sea fish, then return to their freshwater birthplace to reproduce. However, populations of several species are restricted to fresh ...

  3. Atlantic salmon - Wikipedia

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    The colouration of young Atlantic salmon does not resemble the adult stage. While they live in fresh water, they have blue and red spots. At maturity, they take on a silver-blue sheen. The easiest way of identifying them as an adult is by the black spots predominantly above the lateral line, though the caudal fin is usually unspotted. When they ...

  4. Salmon run - Wikipedia

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    A grizzly bear ambushing a jumping salmon during an annual salmon run. A salmon run is an annual fish migration event where many salmonid species, which are typically hatched in fresh water and live most of their adult life downstream in the ocean, swim back against the stream to the upper reaches of rivers to spawn on the gravel beds of small creeks.

  5. Sockeye salmon - Wikipedia

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    The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it. This species is a Pacific salmon that is primarily red in hue during spawning. They can grow up to 84 cm (2 ft 9 in) in length ...

  6. Salmon season is here, but what does that mean for ... - AOL

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    Chum salmon. Chum salmon are also named dog or calico salmon. The species develop large, canine-like teeth during spawning, and typically grow to 10-15 pounds but can be as large as 33 pounds.

  7. Chinook salmon - Wikipedia

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    Chinook, like many other species of salmon, are considered euryhaline, and thus live in both saltwater and freshwater environments throughout their life. Once hatching, salmon spend one to eight years in the ocean (averaging from three to four years) [19] before returning to their home rivers to spawn. The salmon undergo radical morphological ...

  8. Yes, salmon is good for you. But here's why you want to ... - AOL

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    People love salmon because it tastes less "fishy" than other fish and because it can be prepared any number of cooking methods, including grilled, air fried, baked, poached, sautéed or smoked.

  9. Kokanee salmon - Wikipedia

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    The kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as the kokanee trout, little redfish, silver trout, kikanning, Kennerly's salmon, Kennerly's trout, or Walla, [2] is the non-anadromous form of the sockeye salmon (meaning that they do not migrate to the sea, instead living out their entire lives in freshwater). There is some debate as to ...