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Here are some interesting facts about salmon. If you were a salmon you have many dangers like bears, oil, gas, bigger fish, litter, fishers, and stuff like that.

Did you know that a salmon is called a fry when it is just born? When it is leaving the river it is a smolt, and when it has spent a little time in the ocean it is a adult. The five species of Pacific salmon are King, Coho, Chum, Pink, and Sockeye. If you were a salmon you would eat insects, plankton, and smaller fish.

Did you know that salmon die in the river they were born in? When a salmon is swimming in the rapids it can jump six feet high. Salmon start in a river and then they go to the ocean and then they go back to the river they were born in to spawn. If you go fishing in a warm river for salmon you wuold not catch them because salmon only live in cool water. Salmon are a grayish color when the are born and they are a bright gray color when they are in the ocean and then they turn red or pink when they are spawning.

If you were salmon you just could not just lay eggs anywhere. You would have to lay eggs in gravel because the eggs wuold suffocate in silt. The female salmon makes a hole in the gravel with her tail fin.