salmon stream
Fish migration route
A salmon stream is a river or creek where salmon return to spawn, swimming upstream from the ocean to the freshwater waters where they hatched.
These waterways are central to salmon life cycles and often protected for conservation: The salmon stream was closed to fishing during spawning season.
The term emphasizes the stream's ecological role rather than just its geography.
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
- spawning groundReproductive habitat for fish
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- gravelLoose small rock fragments
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- habitatsforest, ocean, lake, river, pond
- mountain streamsmountain brook, mountain river, mountain spring, headwaters, headwater
- Northern Wildstaiga, boreal forest, arctic, subarctic, muskeg
- streamscreek, brook, rivers, tributary, creeks
- cold watersArctic Ocean, Antarctic waters, polar seas, glacial river, sea ice
salmon streamstocked pond
Water deliberately populated with fish
fish farm · fish hatchery · man-made reservoir · trout farm · aquarium
salmon streamstill pond
Undisturbed small body of water
standing water · dead pool · backwater · swamp · bog
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