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What does anadromous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a migratory fish) That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water.
  2. (botany) Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.
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The two anadromous species from Atlantic waters, striped bass and shad, have been welcome additions, not destroyers of native species.
As a member of the herring family, shad, along with salmon and striped bass, are anadromous, meaning they live in the ocean but swim inland and spawn in fresh water.
Federal government manages anadromous, catadromous and other marine species.
Pacific salmon are anadromous fish that migrate from freshwater to the ocean and then back to freshwater to spawn.
This is an account of nineteenth-century efforts to naturalize alien freshwater and anadromous fish in California.
Typically, salmon are anadromous which means they are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce.

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