Salmon

Do salmon migrate upstream?

Young salmon learn the smell of their home stream, possibly even memorizing it at various points along the way, as they migrate toward the ocean. As adults returning to freshwater, when they encounter that familiar smell, it stimulates them to swim upstream . So there may be some “testing of the waters” as salmon migrate …

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Are salmon omnivores?

Pigs are omnivores belonging to a family of even-toed ungulate known as Suidae and the genus Sus. What is omnivore and its example? An omnivore is an organism that eats plants and animals. Also, are salmon carnivores? Salmon, tuna and other fish-eating fish are not top level carnivores. These farmed fish are at essentially the …

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Are salmon going extinct?

Wild Salmon Are Going Extinct You Can Help Change That For decades, salmon populations in the Northwest have been on the decline, largely in part to conditions created by four dams on the lower Snake River. Another thing we wondered was: how many Pacific salmon have gone extinct? Scientists conservatively estimate that well over one-quarter …

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