Carcasses of dead sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, #26183

Carcasses of dead sockeye salmon, line the edge of the Adams River. These salmon have already completed their spawning and have died, while other salmon are still swimming upstream and have yet to lay their eggs. Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, Oncorhynchus nerka, natural history stock photograph, photo id 26183
Carcasses of dead sockeye salmon, line the edge of the Adams River. These salmon have already completed their spawning and have died, while other salmon are still swimming upstream and have yet to lay their eggs. Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada

Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26183
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
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