Kokanee

Download or read book THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE KOKANEE SALMON written by Joanne Swain and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kokanee salmon is a land locked sockeye salmon. The story is about the kokanee salmon’s life cycle from being laid as an egg in a freshwater stream to returning to that same stream four years later as an adult spawner. The salmon like a certain habitat to lay their eggs. The temperature of the water, water flow, size of rocks in which they build their redds. The book also explains how they choose their mate, lay the eggs, fertilize the eggs and how they protect them from predators. The salmon choose the stream where they were laid as salmon eggs and how they grow in the stream to hatch in the spring to return to the lake to live for about four years