Pacific salmon species
The salmon has a strict 2-year life cycle and returns to Salish Sea rivers in large number in odd years.
What is/are pink salmon? (humpy is also acceptable)
What are its nares? (nose ore nostrils would also be acceptable)
An artifact of road construction over streams that prevents or reduces success of salmon returning to natal streams.
What are culverts? (passage barriers, blockages, dams also acceptable)
The traditional fishing technique that captures salmon by using artificially structure to direct them over and into a net that can then be raised to retrieve this fish with little stress and damage.
What is reef net fishing?
The type of fish food that falls from critically important vegetation overhanging streams and shorelines.
What is/are insects? (bugs, invertebrates work)
The salmon whose spawning coloration is a very bright red with a distinctly green head and whose young typically spend a year or two in a lake before traveling to the ocean.
What is/are sockeye salmon? (red salmon would also be acceptable)
The fin that seems to serve little purpose and is often cut off to identify fish from hatcheries.
What is the adipose fin?
One of the earliest factors in Pacific salmon stock declines as technology and appetite increased with the rapid settlement of the West.
What is over harvesting or overfishing?
Doing this to a salmon immediately after catching it for food can reduce the fishy taste, reduce bacterial spoilage and extend shelf life.
What is bleeding out?
Famed salmon predators who feast on returning adult Alaskan salmon and now star in an annual reality competition.
What are grizzly bears?
The human body part is commonly used as a teaching aid for learning the 5 Pacific salmon species.
What is your hand?
The mineral in salmon's head that helps it orient using the Earth's magnetic field.
What is magnetite?
Often removed from freshwater and marine riparian areas but critical sources of salmon food, water cooling and protection from predators.
What are trees or overhanging vegetation?
Soft, accessible and nutrient rich, the part of the salmon that's typically eaten first by scavengers.
What are/is the eye(s)?
Salmon prey that form large schools and whose roe also served as a historically important food source.
What are herring?
The salmon species that can reach the greatest size and generally migrate up large rivers to spawn, sometimes for over 750 miles!
What is/are Chinook salmon? (king salmon is also acceptable)
Salmon have these not only along their jaws but also on their tongue and elsewhere.
What are teeth?
What is water quantity or flow?
Sushi dish of raw salmon on small pressed bed of rice.
What is sake nigiri?
The part of the salmon life cycle that can make for en easy and nutritious meal for everything from crayfish and sculpins to gulls and mergansers.
What is the egg stage.
The second largest salmon species that has purple, green and black markings in their spawning coloration and often spawn in lower portions of smaller rivers and streams.
What is/are chum salmon? (dog would also be acceptable)
The rolled oat-looking bones that float on either side of salmon's brains and are important for balance, while also keeping a detailed record of the fish's life.
What are the otoliths?
A chemical used in car tires to reduce wear, that can kill returning adult coho salmon before they're able to spawn.
What is 6ppdq? (or some variation thereof)
Thought of as a strange trash fish by the non-tribal population, this ancient fish species has a similar life cycle to salmon, was prized for its fatty meat by Columbia river tribes and was served alongside salmon at feasts and celebrations.
What is the Pacific lamprey? (lamprey is acceptable)
The apex salmon predator who most adapted to feeding on large Chinook salmon but who will also eat chum and other fish species.
What is the orca? (killer whale, blackfish, ...)