Fertilized eggs in redd develop into embryos

Fry feed on aquatic and riparian terrestrial

invertebrates

Nutrients and energy enrich freshwater food web

B

CD

Most sockeyeA

Pink, chum,some chinook

Coho and some masu, steelhead, chinook,

and sockeye

Fry migrate to freshwater lakes

Fry migrants smoltify

Smolts migrate

to ocean

Smolts migrate

to ocean

Fry disperse

Rainbow and resident masu

Coastal juvenilesreside on shelf for several months

Adults spawn in theirnatal freshwater habitat

Alevins emergefrom redds

Stream parr spend 1–5 years

in streamsLake juvenilesspend 1–2 years

in lakes

Estuarine juvenilesmove into deeper waterResident subadults

remain in freshwater

Anadromous adultsmove upstream

Marine subadults mature during 1–5 years

in the ocean

Spawned-out carcasses

Steelhead repeat spawnersreturn to ocean as kelts

Salmon Life Cycle

originally appeared in Atlas of Pacific Salmon (X. Augerot)©2005 State of the Salmon Consortium

artwork by Kate Spencer

Salmon Life Cycle

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ChinookA

B

C

D

E

F

Chum

Coho

Pink

Sockeye

Masu/Cherry

1

2

3

4

5

6

Salmon of the Pacific. There are six species of Pacific salmon. They display different colors and characteristics during various life cycle stages. See if you can match the juveniles with their ocean going (sea-run) and river (spawning) counterparts.

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