Sockeye salmon, swim upstream in the Adams River, traveling to reach the place where they hatched four years earlier in order to spawn a new generation of salmon eggs.
Species: Sockeye Salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26172
Lat/Long: 50.89941, -119.56810 (Coordinates: 50° 53' 57.88" N, 119° 34' 5.16" W)
Format: Digital 2:3
Species: Sockeye Salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26172
Lat/Long: 50.89941, -119.56810 (Coordinates: 50° 53' 57.88" N, 119° 34' 5.16" W)
Format: Digital 2:3
Keywords: actinopterygii, adams river, animalia, british columbia, canada, chordata, dominant run, fish, neopterygii, oncorhynchus, oncorhynchus nerka, outdoors, outside, provincial parks, reproduction, river, roderick haig-brown provincial park, salmon, salmon run, salmonidae, salmoniformes, sockeye salmon, spawn, spawning, teleostei
Categories:
- Location > Protected Threatened and Significant Places > Provincial Parks > Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park
- Location > World > Canada > British Columbia > Adams River
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