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Some kinds of fish are born in rivers, but swim away from the place they were born and live their lives elsewhere. When they are ready to reproduce (spawn) they swim back to where they were born to lay eggs or fertlise them. So they migrate downriver to live, and migrate back upriver to spawn.

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