Life-Cycle of the Atlantic salmon ( First Nature 2006)



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Pembrokeshire Rivers Trust

Life-Cycle of the Atlantic salmon (© First Nature 2006)


This is the story of a long-distance runner, the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar).

Salmon eggs


In winter, adult salmon lay their eggs (called ova) in redds, which are nests that the hen salmon digs in the gravel of the river bed. The cock salmon fertilises the eggs with his milt.


Salmonid ova – the egg stage
(Picture: Nick Giles)


After a few weeks, tiny black eyes appear inside the ova, and soon afterwards the heart and other internal organs become visible. Salmon ova take typically three months to hatch; cold winters delay the hatching and in warmer years the process is speeded up a bit.


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