Egg
This is the correct term for a salmon's nest.
What is a redd?
This is the source of food for the salmon during the alevin life stage.
What is a yolk sac?
These marks help camouflage a salmon fry.
What are parr marks?
This is the physical change that salmon go through in order to adapt from freshwater to saltwater.
What is smoltification?
This is the name for when the adult fish swim in groups in the ocean.
What is a school?
Spawners don't eat when they swim back up the river, so they get their energy from this.
What is stored fat?
The name for a special feature that helps an organism better survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
This fine sediment carried by running water is a threat or hazard during the egg life stage.
What is silt?
This is the saying for when an alevin absorbs its yolk sac.
What is "buttoning up"?
The kingfisher, common merganser, and garter snake are examples of this.
What is a predator of fry?
This is a place where fresh water meets salt water.
What is an estuary?
This is the shelter for the adult fish.
What is the ocean?
This is what the male fish uses to fertilize the eggs in the gravel.
What is milt?
Found in the cavity of the fish, this body part is filled with gas and helps fish control buoyancy.
What is a swim bladder?
Coming from the female salmon, thousands of these are deposited and fertilized in the gravel.
What are eggs?
This is the name for the place where alevin live in the river.
What is the gravel?
These aquatic insects in their larva or nymph stage are indicator species and some examples are the caddisfly, water penny, and mayfly. They are also food for fry!
What are macroinvertebrates?
This is the term for the type of water that is a mix of salt and fresh water.
What is brackish?
By changing their color, this adaptation disguises the adult fish in the ocean.
What is camouflage?
When the fish return to the river, the male spawners grow these to help them fight off other males.
What are teeth?
Water must have plenty of this available so that fish can breathe.
What is oxygen?
This is something we protect the eyed eggs from because they are very sensitive to it.
What is light?
This is the general term for things like garbage, oil spills, and chemicals that end up in the river and can harm growing alevin.
What is pollution?
Before the hatchery fry are released into the river, this fin is clipped to distinguish them from wild fish.
What is the adipose fin?
Here are some examples: crustaceans, plankton, smaller fish.
What is food for smolts?
This is the kind of water found in the adult salmon's habitat.
What is saltwater?
In the river, this is the direction spawners swim to return to their natal stream.
What is upstream?
These protect the bodies of the salmon and grow in regular concentric patterns which can be used to determine the age and life history of the fish. They are covered in slime which further protects the fish from diseases, fungi, and viruses.
What are scales?
These animals are a hazard to salmon eggs because they crush them when they graze near river banks.
What are cattle?
This is the temperature of water that alevin need in order to survive.
What is cold water? or What is 50-55 degree water?
Logs, woody debris, rocks and boulders in the river are this for salmon fry.
What is habitat and/or protection?
Osprey, orcas, seals, and herons are examples of this.
What are predators of the smolts?
Osprey, orcas, and seals are an example.
What are some predators of adult salmon?
This is the name of the hooked jaw that develops on spawning fish.
What is the kype?
These are the first three stages of a salmonid's lifecycle.
What are the egg, alevin, and fry stages?