Salmon

Title: Salmon
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Salmon

What species would travel over 2000 miles just to have young and then die? It has been said that anyone who has not seen a wild salmon has not seen what a fish should be. Salmon was the common name applied to fish characterized by an elongated body covered with small, rounded scales and a fleshy fin between the dorsal fin and tail. In this paper I will be discussing history of studying salmon, the life …showed first 75 words of 1918 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1918 total…water spawn in the same freshwater streams, as did their ancestors. The spawning ground of these fish is usually a rapidly flowing, clear stream with gravel and rocks on the bottom. Bibliography References 1. Mills, Derek. (1989). Ecology and Management of Atlantic Salmon. New England, New York: Chapman and Hall. 2. Shearer. (1978). The Atlantic Salmon. New York: Halsted Press form 3. Cone, J., & Ridlington, S. (Eds.). (1996) The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A documentary History. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press.

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