There are always people who have to do things their own way. This is also the case in the world of salmon. Two strains of salmon in Norway live their entire lives in freshwater.
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Imagine that the shiny sea trout you can catch in the sea is the same species as the small brown trout you can catch in a small mountain lake. The trout is a species with incredible variation. It is also our most common freshwater fish.
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The freshwater fish that can tolerate the coldest water is the Arctic char. No freshwater fish lives further north!
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Roe is fish eggs.
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We call small baby salmon fry.
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Parr are salmon fry with finger marks, or parr marks, on their sides.
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Smolt are silver-colored salmon fry that are getting ready to swim out to sea.
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Salmon grow much faster in the sea than in the river. Towards the end of the first winter in the sea, we call salmon adults.
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Adult salmon that are getting ready to lay eggs or milk are called spawning salmon.
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More than 10,000 years ago, the byglandsbleka managed to mysteriously survive the Ice Age.
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The "starburst" 65 million years ago wiped out the dinosaurs and half of all species. The salmon survived.
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In Trøndelag, there is a small isolated population of small Atlantic salmon - which never goes to sea.
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