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Ecosystems, Food Sources and Predators
Throughout their lives, salmon live and travel through many different
habitats. Each of these habitats plays a vital role at different
points in the salmon's long journey.
Life_Stage
|
Habitat |
Predators |
Prey |
| egg
Photo: VAMSC
|
river |
other fishes |
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| alevin
Photo: VAMSC
|
river |
eels, kingfishers, minks, trout, gulls
|
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| fry
Photo: VAMSC
|
river |
suckers, mergansers
Diving bug.
Photo: Finn Larsen
|
true flies, fish eggs |
| smolt
Photo: Tony Westman
|
estuaries
coastal
marshes
|
mackerel, grayling, char, hake, dogfish, older salmon, loons,
herons, terns and kingfishers
Heron.
Photo: VAMSC
|
beetles, ants, grasshoppers, caterpillars and
worms |
|
adult
Photo: VAMSC
|
ocean |
YOUNG: post-smolt-hake, dogfish, tuna, pollock, cod, gulls,
herons, seals, whales
ADULT: killer whales, seals, swordfish, hake, lamprey
Resident killer whales.
Photo: Lance Barrett-Lennard
|
YOUNG: sandfleas, herring
larvae, copepods, plankton
ADULT: plankton, krill, shrimp, squid, small fish, herring
|
| spawning adult
Photo: VAMSC
|
river |
grizzly bears, birds,
minks
Gull and salmon.
Photo: VAMSC
|
none-they do not feed |
|
