By: Luke Spack Period 1

Chinook Salmon November 21, 2008 issue VII

By Flickr user aaron schmidt By Flickr user MsPixie By Flickr user Mark and Kylie By Flickr user dphershaman

The Chinook Salmon is an endangered Osteichthyes! Some people may ask why
and others How? In these next few paragraphs I am going to explain to you these
questions and others pertaining to reproduction, locations, routines, adaptions and
much more.
The Chinook Salmon is classified as follows.
It is in the animal
kingdom Anamalia,
the phylum Chordata,
And the class
Actinopterygi. The
phyla have a adipose
By Flickr user chaosinjune fin, and they have to
live in cold water
with high oxygen levels. The class has black gums
and a mouth. They also have to dorsal fins and spots
on their tails. There close relatives are Trout and
Whitefish. They are located on the Pacific coasts of
the United States, in the Great Lakes, and in Canada.
There routines vary, some are yearly and
others daily. They yearly come back to their home
stream from the ocean to lay eggs and then the
females die. Daily they look for food, make sure the
water is good and does not have excess amounts of
algae and they need to stay in a group in order to
survive. In the ocean they eat crustaceans and squids
and are eaten by larger fish and birds. In the streams
they eat alewives, and insects and are eaten by
Rainbow Trout, birds and Coho Salmon.
They adapt to different kinds of waters in the
oceans and streams. They need to adapt to different
survival techniques. They also need to adapt to
temperatures in the water to survive. Reproduction
methods also vary. They have to come from the
ocean to their home streams to lay eggs. After the
female lays eggs she dies within 25 days. The babies
spawn in the main channels. They are sexual and lay
eggs created by a sperm and a egg. The Chinook
Salmon is the state fish of Alaska. Lewis and Clark
talked about this fish and ate it on their expedition.
They also can be called Blackmouth.
They are
endangered because
they die off when
spawning and the
bears eat their
babies.
Hydroelectric dams
By Flickr user Funderburgh
and poor water
quality are killing these fish. They are protected by
the Endangered Species Act and the Pacific Animal
Treaty. The Chinook Salmon is a very special fish
and I hope you find interest in this fish also.

I used the following websites: <ref> http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Endangered/esvI.html and <ref> http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_salmon <ref>michigan.gov/dnr.0,1607,7-153-0364_18958-45663--,00.html