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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.
Salmon Run is a 1982 video game for Atari 8-bit computers created by Bill Williams and distributed via the Atari Program Exchange. Salmon Run was the first game in Williams's career, followed by a string of successes noted for their oddball concepts. [ 1 ]
Salmon (/ ˈ s æ m ən /; pl.: salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
[1] [2] The technique is commonly practiced in British Columbia during the summer months, when sockeye and chinook salmon run upstream the Fraser River to spawn. [ 3 ] Flossing uses long leader lines 5 to 20 feet (1.5 to 6.1 m) in length with a 1 to 4 oz (28 to 113 g) lead weight called a "Bouncing Betty" (named after a lethal landmine first ...
The Salmon Run Mall is a shopping center located in Watertown, New York. The mall features JCPenney, Best Buy, Burlington, ...
The Adams River run occurs every year, but every fourth year (called a "dominant" year), the numbers are much higher. 2018 was the most recent dominant run. According to Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans , the Fraser River sockeye run of 2010 was the largest since 1913, numbering an estimated 34 million fish. [ 11 ]
The rerouting of these two major rivers was a mixed blessing, while reducing flood threats, the Duwamish River salmon runs were decimated. To rectify this situation, salmon runs were rerouted through the Locks, which included introducing a major run of Sockeye Salmon using stock from Baker River, Washington.
Every October people gather on its shores (especially during Issaquah's Salmon on Sunset celebration, which has several viewpoints staffed with Friends of Issaquah Salmon Hatchery FISH docents explaining the salmon run) to watch the salmon traveling upstream. [5] [6] and by the local Native Americans. [citation needed].