1. By: Bridget Marie Coyer

2.  It is a scaly red fish with yellow, orange eyes.  It has a mouth shaped like a beak.  River salmon are pink.  Atlantic salmon are gray.  Salmon look like tiny sharks.  It looks a little like a trout.

3.  In the summer, salmon go the place in the river where they were born to lay eggs.  The babies stay in the river until they are ready to go out on there own.  Atlantic salmon turn pink in fresh water.  Chinook salmon look like the riverbed.  Salmon spend their lives mostly in the ocean and in the rivers have their young.

4.  Adult salmon eat krill, small fish, and shellfish.  Bears, otters, ravens and other dead-fish eaters eat salmon.  It is weird that all these animals eat them when they are dead instead of catching them.  Frys are eaten by birds, insects, and other fish.

5.  Salmon begin as eggs which turn into alevin.  The alevin become fry.  A fry turns into a parr which turns into a smolt.  The smolt turns into an adult.  Finally, the adult turns into a spawning adult.

6.  Salmon die after they spawn.  Salmon go to the start of the river to lay eggs.  The King Salmon is the state fish of Alaska.

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