Salmon What happens to the young salmon.?

Answer 1

If they are farm salmon, they swim around, eat, and grow.

If they are land-locked salmon (lake) salmon like silver salmon (kokanee), they swim around, eat, grow, lay eggs, and fertilize them, and tend them.

If they are andromedous salmon, the are born in a stream or ocean, sometimes hundreds of miles from the ocean. When they get a couple of years old, or so, they swim downstream, enter the ocean, and eat lots of ocean creatures that make them grow very large, with a rather oily flesh. Some are eaten by ocean animals that love salmon, and the remainder, after several years in the ocean, find the streams of their babyhood and swim up them, sometimes hundreds of miles, to where they were born. Some are eaten by bears or otters, others are caught by fishermen, and some simply die of exhaustion. The ones that make it all the way upstream get together and spawn (lay eggs, fertilize them, tend to the eggs until babies are born.)