Learn about: Pink Salmon (Oncorhyncus gorbuscha)

Artwork by Caleb Venturo

The pink salmon is a medium-sized salmon that lives in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. The average pink salmon weighs about 4.8 pounds, but the current world record weighed 15 pounds and was 30 inches long. The pink salmon is anadromous, meaning it lives in saltwater and swims into freshwater to spawn. It always goes back to the stream in which it was born. The salmon makes a redd, which means “nest,” and guards it until it dies, which happens shortly after the salmon spawns. The pink salmon’s diet consists of small fish and invertebrates. Predators include large fish, seabirds, and bears.

In Grandy Creek, WA, we saw hordes of pink salmon and were very interested. We researched and I decided to write about them.

Information from Wikipedia

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