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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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I want to know about the life cycles of the five different species of anadromous salmon in the Pacific Ocean.
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.
Thus, consistently more alleles were found within the anadromous than within the landlocked populations from Maine.
Because both are anadromous species with weak homing instincts, they colonized coastal streams far from the original points of introduction.
Unlike lampreys, salmon, and other anadromous fish, which migrate from the ocean to fresh water to breed, eels head in the opposite direction.

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