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The Kamchatka shelf is the only place where all seven species of Oncorhynchus Salmon can be found. Spawning salmon dominate traffic in the Ozernaya River.
The salmon migration is one of the last great migrations that shapes the food supply and activities of many species, including humans. Salmon bring marine-derived nutrients from the Kamchatka shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk into the eight major river systems that run off the middle range of mountains that divide Kamchatka in half.
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- 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, geography, getty, image type, kamchatka, kamchatka peninsula, large group of animals, motion, no people, ozernaya river, photography, rear view, rivers, russia, russia (the country), salmon, salmon fish, school of fish, shallow, spawning, surface, survival, swimming, swimming animals, underwater, underwater photography, water
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- Kamchatka Salmon_ National Geographic Magazine 8/2009
