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Pacific Salmon – Amazing Canadian Wildlife

Of the five species of Pacific salmon, the smallest, Pink salmon, are the most abundant. The biggest, Chinook salmon, are the least abundant.

Salmon are famous for their ability to return to the freshwater place of birth to spawn, including fighting their way up raging rivers – even jumping rapids and waterfalls. Their shapes and colours change in the spawning season.

The Northwest Coastal First Nations relied on the salmon as one of their main sources of food.

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