While spawning salmon still have the energy to battle each other for nesting places
Spawning Salmon Pacific salmon have amazing life stories Their stories begin in fresh water but young salmon migrate to the ocean They grow up in the sea Then they migrate back to fresh water to spawn and die Spawning fish lay eggs Spawning creates a new generation of salmon to replace their parents
Pacific Salmon of North America Five kinds of Pacific salmon live in northwestern North America coho chinook pink chum and sockeye Sockeye salmon usually spawn in streams that have lakes on their path
Once silver sockeyes turn fire engine red before they spawn and die Salmon spawn in cold clear streams and rivers The female uses her tail to dig a shallow nest called a redd Each pair of salmon may have four or five redds in the stream gravel
