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Sockeye (red) salmon spawning in an Alaska stream

Description

Sockeye (red) salmon spawning in an Alaska stream. The fish assume brilliantcolors as they migrate upriver to spawn.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 261 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Photographer

Artwork by Bob Hines

Location

Alaska

Collection

Historic Fisheries

NOAA Affiliation

BCF