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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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Pacific salmon are anadromous fish that migrate from freshwater to the ocean and then back to freshwater to spawn.
The freshwater banded killifish and the anadromous rainbow smelt increased in abundance from August into September.
Thus, consistently more alleles were found within the anadromous than within the landlocked populations from Maine.
Typically, salmon are anadromous which means they are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce.
The two anadromous species from Atlantic waters, striped bass and shad, have been welcome additions, not destroyers of native species.
I want to know about the life cycles of the five different species of anadromous salmon in the Pacific Ocean.

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