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What is a slink salmon?
A slink salmon is a mature salmon that chooses to remain in a river after spawning, living in deep pools, instead of returning to the ocean. They lose a great deal of weight, giving them a long, slender appearance
What is the group of salmon called but not a school?
A group of salmon is called a run when they swim together up a river to spawn.
What are the spawning habits of a salmon?
Salmon will return to their hatching place to spawn. A single group of salmon may travel hundreds of miles back to the river of their birthplace, hopping over waterfalls, swimming upstream until they get to the place where they hatched. They will then mate and lay eggs, beginning into being another cycle of leaving and returning to spawn. This journey is very dangerous, due to bears waiting at the top of waterfalls to catch the returning salmon.
What are the affects on wild salmon when farmed salmon escape?
Farmed salmon can tranmet diseases to wild stocks of salmon. If farmed salmon enters the rivers to spawn and interbreeds with wild samon they can contribute to what can be called 'genetical pollution'. As each stock of salmon in each particular salmon river has been adapted to the very conditions in this river, generation after generation, for thousands of years, such an interference is undesirable.
What kind of fish are in the Columbia river?
There are a variety of fish that live in the Columbia river including salmon and chinook. Coho, steelhead, and sockeye are also found in this river.
Can you tell me about the Salmon River in Idaho?
Length - 425 miles Source - Sawtooth Range Mouth - Snake River Major tributaries - Yankee Fork, Panther Creek, Little Salmon River, East Fork Salmon River, Pahsimeroi River, Lemhi River, North Fork Salmon River.
When was Salmon River State Forest created?
Salmon River State Forest was created in 1934.
Is salmon river and salmon arm the same?
No. The Salmon river drains into the Salmon arm, which is part of the Shuswap Lakes. If are driving through the city of Salmon Arm westbound on the Trans Canada Highway (towards Vancouver) you will cross the Salmon river shortly after you pass the Canadian Tire and Pedro's market.
When does the salmon season end on the River Tay?
The salmon season ends on the 15th of October, on the River Tay.
Why do salmon turn red when they spawn?
The gene in the salmon turns on and they turn red and call them selfs bloods and the other salmon who aren't red yet are called crips that's how it goes down i the LA River
What is the name of a salmon nest?
Salmon are born at the bottom of stream and river beds in the form of almost translucent eggs. The female Salmon will cover the eggs with gravel from the rocky stream or lakebed. The nest is called a Redd.
Why is the Salmon river called the river of no return?
"The Main Salmon River was called "The River of No Return" back in the early days when boats could navigate down the river, but could not get back up through the fast water and numerous rapids. The romantic name lives on today, even though jet boats can navigate upstream." http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/scnf/home/?cid=stelprdb5360033
