I am so excited to learn about salmon are you? I cannot wait to make our giant salmon. Are you excited too? I cannot wait to paint our adult salmon. Did you know that beaver ponds provide a critical habitat for juvenile salmon? Salmon love both saltwater and freshwater.
After living for many years at sea, salmon travel a long distance home to return to the river in which they were born to spawn.
Salmon have a really strong sense of smell. They can smell from the ocean and from where they were born. The young salmon eat insects, crustaceans and other small creatures. Adults eat small fish and crustaceans. (Crustaceans are things like shrimps and crabs. ) Chinook are born in fresh water. But they spend most of their life in the ocean. They swim upstream to spawn. Then they die.
When salmon are in rivers and streams, they need shelter. They need logs and branches. These give them places to hide.
PREDATORS
Bears and other mammals, including humans. Salmon are endangered because of you. Humans are over fishing so scientist are trying to find ways to help salmon. They are finding solutions so far they have the fish ladder and other things.
THREATS
The loss of places to spawn and develop this partly due to dams. Fish ladders can help with this. Dams also affect water temperature. Salmon need cool water. Power generation makes water warm.
What did you learn?
Alevin in freshwater
Dear Carter,
I’m very excited to learn about salmon. The good news is that we are going to paint our adult salmon this week. I think it is so amazing to learn that salmon instinctively know how to swim back to their home streams.
Happy researching Carter,
Mrs. Fordyce
Dear Carter,
I really like that you put a ton of details into your sublimely amazing post. I also like that you shared your knowledge in your blog and how you described all you new about salmon. I can see that you are a very great writer and that you would probably do well in the 2015 Student Blogging Challenge. All you have to do is comment to others and write posts.
From, Joseph
Dear Carter,
Wow!
How many salmon facts did you share?
I am so excited to learn about salmon too!
Where did you find all those facts?
In that picture of alevin, is there any water?
From,
Simone
Dear Carter,
I love your research of the salmon. I also love the black jaguar report. What part of the salmon life cycle stage would you choose? I would choose the Alevin part of the life cycle.
Did you know that the salmon can migrate many miles to get to their breeding grounds? What is your favorite salmon to eat ?
I think if you would choose it, it would probably be the Sockeye salmon, the Coho or the King salmon.
Happy blogging Carter
Your friend,
Coen