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The Alaska Region of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Fairbanks Fish & Wildlife Field Office, welcome you to Cyber Salmon! At this web site, you can learn great things about chum, chinook, pink, sockeye, and coho salmon, the five Pacific salmon species found in the Yukon River drainage. Explore farther to discover what we're learning about these fish. People: Fisheries have some significance to every community in Alaska. Fish may serve as an important subsistence food source, provide a variety of jobs, or offer recreational opportunities. Fish: Salmon are a vital part of food chains in all the habitats they occupy throughout their lives. Eggs and juvenile fish are an important food source in the streams where they hatch. Smolts in estuaries and adults in the ocean are a component of marine food chains. Spawners carry ocean nutrients back to the streams where they are released when the fish die and decay. These nutrients feed insects and fertilize plants that will provide food and cover for the salmon that hatch next spring. Habitat: Salmon occupy many different habitats throughout their lives. Cold, clear streams, quiet pools, lakes, major rivers; estuaries, and the open ocean are all habitats for salmon at some point in their life cycle. All of these habitats must remain healthy in order to ensure the survival of the species.
To contact the Fairbanks Fish & Wildlife Field Office.
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