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Some fish, usually called 'brackish' fish can live in both salt and freshwater. However, the extremely colorful varieties of reef fishes that you are probably referring to are strictly saltwater.

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Which bony fish can live in both fresh and salty water?

salmon


Do fish live in fresh water and salt water?

Some do- salmon spawn in fresh water but live mostly in the ocean. Most fish live in either one or the other, not both.


What saltwater fish that can live in freshwater?

One of the most common fish that can live in both salt and fresh water is a salmon:)


How does a salmon live in fresh water when there young and migrate to seawater and die in fresh water?

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Salmon are amadromous, meaning that they live in both Fresh and Salt water. A salmon lives in lots of different environments during its whole lifetime. They are born in a river or stream. They then make their trip towards the ocean where they live for most of their life growing, eating, and preparing. Then, they stop eating and travel back to where they are born into Fresh Water. There they lay their eggs and soon afterwards, they die.


What habittat does a salmon live in?

Fresh water some of them anyway


Can a fish be both fresh water and salt water?

Some species can live in both. Examples: Striped bass American shad Bull shark Rainbow trout(steelhead) Salmon


Do sockeye salmon live in the Atlantic Ocean?

There are several varieties of sockeye salmon. Some live in oceans like the Atlantic and other strictly live and spawn in fresh water.


Why is saltwater fish affected by fresh water?

Because their blood chemistry is designed to be in homeostasis with a saline medium. In fresh water, water will enter the fishes tissues and kill it. However some fish (eels and salmon) have evolved to live in both environments.


Do invertebrates live in salt water or fresh water?

They live in both


Do electric eels live in salt water or fresh water or both?

They live in the fresh water of the Amazon and the Orinoco Basin in South America.


Is it possible for life to live in salt water and fresh water?

Yes. the Bull Shark migrates in the same way that salmon do.


What are the adaptations of a salmon?

Don't most fish either live in salt water or fresh water? They adapted to one or the other.