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Title page 19
Relation River in Common
Date 2005-01-12 to 2005-02-16
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description rivers and lakes and migrate downstream as juveniles. In the estuary at the river's mouth, they transform from freshwater fish to saltwater fish, then enter the ocean where they migrate far north or south, feed and mature for several years. They then return to the mouth of the river, swim upstream to their natal areas, where they spawn and die. This cycle has ecological significance. Salmon take nutrients from the ocean, and carry them to inland headwaters, where a complex of other species...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1234

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