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. king sockeye coho 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. pink chinook steelhead coho

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

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

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

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

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

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? pink and humpback chinook and coho summer and winters sockeye and coho

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