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The cells take in salt to balance the solute concentration-apex
Verlie Corwin
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∙ 15y ago== == Salmon are not adapted to fresh water. Salmon live in the ocean. They swim upstream and are capable of surviving only for the brief period of time it takes to swim to their spawning grounds. Actually, salmon ARE adapted to both fresh and saltwater, but at different life stages. When salmon are born, they are born in freshwater and they are completely adapted to freshwater. Then they make their migration out toward the ocean. In the estuary (where freshwater and saltwater mix), they undergo a major life change called smoltification, which prepares them for life in salt water. Young salmon may spend up to several months making this change in the estuary. But after they have become smolts, they are adapted to salt water, and they will begin their life in the ocean, which may take several years, depending on the species.
After this, they will return to their birth streams or lakes to spawn. The freshwater journey back to their spawning grounds is pretty rough. They do not feed on this journey. They are entirely focused on spawning, after which they will die.
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∙ 8y ago98% of Freshwater Fish will die if they are put in saltwater. (But some fish have to move to the strings where they were born to give birth to the new generations - for example salmon or eel.)
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∙ 14y agoThey swim downstream until they reach the river estuary and then continue on out into the ocean. No-one knows exactly what happens then.
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Is salmon a freshwater fish?
I'm not sure what you mean by a freshwater salmon exactly, but the fish commonly called a sea trout is a type of perch and completely unrelated to salmon.
What fish have the ability to transverse between freshwater and saltwater?
salmon
C) Explain what would happen to the salmon's cells if this process did not occur?
I'm assuming you're talking about osmosis. If osmosis didn't occur, then the saltwater salmon couldn't adapt to freshwater and would suffer from a lack of water and too much salt in the cells, and the freshwater salmon would have too much water and not enough salt in it's cells. The saltwater salmon would shrivel up in freshwater, and the freshwater salmon would burst in saltwater.
Can saltwater fish live in freshwater?
No, freshwater fish must be kept in freshwater and saltwater fish must be kept in saltwater. The one exception (that I know of) in nature is salmon which migrate from where they were born (freshwater) to the ocean and then back to where they were born again to breed.
What can live in freshwater and saltwater and when full grown migrates long distances to it's birth place?
Salmon can live in freshwater and saltwater and migrates when it is full grown.
What water resources can be either freshwater or saltwater?
salmon crocodile and bull shark
What are the two types of fishing?
UH there r tonns of it...... freshwater and saltwater maybe?
Category of crocodile?
saltwater freshwater saltwater freshwater
Are crocodiles freshwater of saltwater?
they are both saltwater and freshwater
Are estuaries saltwater or freshwater?
They contain saltwater and freshwater
What kind of water does salmon live in?
The spawn(reproduce) in the rivers and they live in the ocean and in some of the Great lakes.
A salmon moves from a saltwater ocean to freshwater river what takes place in the salmon cells as it moves?
The cells fill with water because of the movement of water by osmosis. (APEX)
