What species would travel over 2000 miles just to have young and then die? It has been said that anyone who has not seen a wild salmon has not seen what a fish should be. Salmon was the common name applied to fish characterized by an elongated body covered with small, rounded scales and a fleshy fin between the dorsal fin and tail. In this paper I will be discussing history of studying salmon, the life …showed first 75 words of 1840 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1840 total…water spawn in the same freshwater streams, as did their ancestors. The spawning ground of these fish is usually a rapidly flowing, clear stream with gravel and rocks on the bottom. Bibliography References 1. Mills, Derek. (1989). Ecology and Management of Atlantic Salmon. New England, New York: Chapman and Hall. 2. Shearer. (1978). The Atlantic Salmon. New York: Halsted Press form 3. Cone, J., & Ridlington, S. (Eds.). (1996) The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A documentary History. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press.