Pacific Salmon

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1. What is the largest species of Pacific Salmon? silver chinook dog sockeye

2. This Pacific salmon, when it occurs in lakes, is known as a kokanee. sockeye coho king jack

3. Once thought a member of the trout family, this Pacific salmon comes in both summer and winter varieties, and has been introduced to the Great Lakes of the northeast US. steelhead coho chinook pink

4. What is considered a threat to salmon populations in the northwest United States? dams all of these pollution poor ocean conditions

5. Where do salmon spend the majority of their adult lives? in rivers lakes in bays the sea

6. What species is the most commercially valuable salmon? sockeye silver king chum

7. What do you call fish such as salmon that live in salt water and spawn in fresh? pelagic anaglumous anadromous migratory

8. What do salmon eat when returning to fresh water to spawn? frogs aquatic invertebrates other fish none of these

9. These two salmon appear very much alike, although one species is much smaller than the other. sometimes called kings and silvers in the North, they are refered to as what in the south? sockeye and coho pink and humpback chinook and coho summer and winters

10. What Pacific salmon does not die after spawning? coho chinook steelhead king