Diversity and Biology of Fishes: Salmon Mating System
(Coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch Photo from here)
Salmon are well known for going out to the ocean to feed and then swimming up their home stream to reproduce and then die. This characteristic of reproducing once and dying is called semelparity.
But there is more to salmon reproduction…
I just went into the salmon tag to find a picture of a fucking salmon and it took five pages of scrolling to find a salmon that wasn’t in pink buttered-and-garlicked slab form