Salmon migration

Definitions: (Of a fish such as the salmon) migrating up rivers from the sea to spawn..

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Red salmon migrate up the Brooks River and leap up the Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska.

Masses of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) swimming upstream at the edge of the lower Adams River, where the current is not as rapid as in the center of the river, during the biggest run in 100 years, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, October, Adams_River_Sockeye_Salmon-192

I am really chuffed - this image made it to 'runner-up' in the 'Wild Planet' section of the prestigious Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition in 2010. The quality of the winning images was so amazing that I don't mind not winning. Salmon Run, Valdez, prince William Sound, Alaska. I was on the shore with the camera at water level trying to avoid the splashes made by the fish. The photo is re-processed version of this image I uploaded two years ago…

2018-10-13 “Shadows” under the the surface of Upper Explorer pond. Last remnants of Alaska’s salmon run.

Salmon stocks could suffer as sand eels, their main food source when they are at sea, are being overfished

Think you travel a lot? You've got nothing on the humpback whale (which travels a whopping 16,000 miles annually) or the monarch butterfly, whose migration can cross the Pacific Ocean. We've rounded up some of the most incredible animal migrations around the world.

Masses of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) swimming upstream at the edge of the lower Adams River, where the current is not as rapid as in the center of the river, during the biggest run in 100 years, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, October, Adams_River_Sockeye_Salmon-147