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fertilize the females, and the females batter their bodies as they dig redds in the gravel in preparation for egg-laying. when they are spent, their carcasses lie rotting along the riverbanks, providing food for scavenging birds and mammals, and cycling nutrients back into the ecosystem. in time, the eggs
hatch, and a new generation of tiny salmon begins the cycle again. the atnarko river fish count tower at fisheries pool, tweedsmuir south provincial park, chilcotin, bc. the spring or chinook salmon, o. tschawytscha, is the largest of the five species, with some fish reaching a weight of kilograms....
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