Types of Salmon
Alaska is home to a wide variety of wild Pacific Alaskan salmon.
Terms
- Anadromous - A fish that spawns in fresh water but lives the majority of their lives in saltwater.
- Salmonid - Family of fish that includes salmon, trout, and whitefish.
- Alevin - A salmonid that has hatched from the egg, but the egg sac is still attached. The egg sac provides nourishment until the salmonid is able to catch food.
- Fry - The name for a juvenile salmon that has absorbed its egg sac and is rearing in the stream.
- Kype - The hooked jaw many male salmon develop during spawning
- Parr - A large juvenile salmonid, sometimes called a fingerling, during this stage between a fry and a smolt.
- Smolt - A juvenile salmonid that will soon enter the ocean. During this stage, the fish changes from the camouflage spots to a sliver chrome color.
- Substrate - Material such as rocks and gravel that make up a stream bottom.