Life Cycle & Reproduction
9 entries in the Big blue octopus compendium.
AlevinBuried in gravel, sustained by yolk, the alevin is the silent, vulnerable first breath of every salmon.FryA few millimetres of glass, adrift in a world of teeth.ReddA mother's tail-carved cradle in the gravel, where a salmon's next life begins before it ever sees the sea.ParalarvaeThe brief, ciliated bridge between open ocean drift and a life anchored to the reef.SmoltThe brief, fragile window when a river-bred juvenile becomes a sea-bound migrant.KipeA single marine species whose reproductive cycle remains a focus of ongoing field documentation.GrilseOne year in the open ocean, one autumn in the river, and the life is spent.Oncorhynchus nerkaSilver in the open sea, blood-red in the shallows—then gone forever.SemelparityOne ocean, one river, one spawn—then the body becomes the next generation's soil.
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