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Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River. Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
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- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
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animal behavior, animal breeding and mating colors, animal color strategies, animals, close up, color image, commonwealth of independent states, fish, fishes, getty, image type, kamchatka, kamchatka peninsula, large group of animals, motion, no people, ozernaya river, photography, rivers, russia, russia (the country), salmon, salmon fish, school of fish, shallow, spawning, surface, survival, swimming, swimming animals, underwater, underwater photography, water
- Contained in galleries
- Kamchatka Salmon_ National Geographic Magazine 8/2009
