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Is salmon a freshwater fish

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I'm not sure what you mean by a freshwater salmon exactly, but the fish commonly called a sea trout is a type of perch and completely unrelated to salmon.

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Actually, salmon can survive in both freshwater and saltwater.

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Salmon are hatched in freshwater, then migrate out to sea before returning to the same body of freshwater to breed and die, so the answer is yes.

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A salmon is not a freshwater fish because they live in saltwater

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