Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Where's My Spawning Spot?

Salmon are laid in a river or a stream. When they hatch, they lay around eating their yolk sacks because they don´t develop their mouths until later. After they eat their yolk sacks, they dart around their hatching spot smelling it so when they're ready to spawn, they can smell their way back. Then they swim into a river or stream that leads to the ocean. When it's time to spawn most of them won't come back because there are lots of predators in the ocean, so they get eaten or caught by fishermen. As they come back, they face lots of challenges too. They have to jump out of the water to get to some places like up a fish ladder.
If they do make it back they will spawn and then die. 

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