Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
Near threatenedFishcarnivore
The Atlantic salmon is a fish that spends part of its life in rivers and part in the ocean. It hatches in freshwater streams, grows in the salty Atlantic, and returns to rivers to lay its eggs.
- Atlantic salmon can grow up to 1 meter long.
- They hatch in rivers but live most of their adult lives in the ocean.
- Adults return to rivers to spawn each year.
FreshwaterOceanArcticEuropeNorth America
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- Classification
- Fish
- Scientific name
- Salmo salar
- Habitat
- Freshwater, Ocean
- Regions in this directory
- Arctic, Europe, North America
- Diet
- carnivore
- Relative size
- large
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened (NT)
