#Pink Salmon

[troutpaws]

fishtober day 04:

pink salmon (oncorhynchus gorbuscha)

[wallisii]

salmon slammin' sthursday

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #651

Pink salmon!

Pink salmon have an extremely regular life cycle: adults spawn from late June to October (depending on location, of course), their eggs incubate over the winter, and upon hatching in early spring the fry migrate pretty much immediately to saltwater, living and eating in the ocean for about a year and a half, until they finally migrate back to their home rivers to spawn and die at the age of two. Because a single fish generation in a salmon's family line is two years, every pink salmon population is essentially two separate populations, a population that spawns during odd years and a population that spawns during even years! There is very little genetic mixing between these two populations precisely due to their two year long lifespan.

[gradienty]

Pink Salmon Surfie Green (#fc96b8 to #0b7b83)

[bent-rod]

“Humpy” - Pink Salmon, Alaska, Fly Fishing

[namu-the-orca]

SALMONIDS of ALASKA The bane of my existence for the entirety of 2020 and part of 2021: the salmon poster. You've seen the separate illustrations, but now, finally, here is the full thing.

This entire project was a journey. I had never illustrated fish before, let alone in this much detail. I have retained an appropriate hatred of scales and fin rays from this project. But also a persistent joy from having created these illustrations, and appreciation for what beautiful animals these salmon are. Putting together the poster, making all elements fit together and - not unimportantly - making the poster fit its allotted space on the wall was an additional endeavour.

It is currently displayed aboard the David B, the vessel of Northwest Navigation who commissioned this piece. If you're interested in having a copy of your own, you can contact them. For now I hope you enjoy reading this (if you open the image in a separate tab, I made it big enough to read) - and mayhaps learn something new about the intriguing world of salmon! I certainly did.

[salmon-jaws]

spawning colors

[fish-daily]

How about a Pink Salmon/Humpback Salmon if you haven't already?

fish 96 - pink salmon/humpback salmon

[hoopezone]

⠀⠀𐇵 ノ vivi ׄ 🥞̸

[local-hyperfixation-beast26]

Fishuary days 1-4!

[newhstudio]

[niftyrecipe]

Salmon Bruschetta

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[starspice-y]

Fucked up Midwestern Fish

[gradienty]

Mauve Pink Salmon (#d399ff to #fe949d)

[kitteyteeth]

Due to a mistake on the 19th in which I accidentally drew an Atlantic fish instead of an Arctic one, I've decided to draw an Arctic fish today to make up for it :'''')

Here's a swell little pink salmon. Hope it brings you joy

@fish-daily

[footloose-travel]

The Stellar Sea Lions feast on pink salmon as they return to the Solomon Gulch hatchery.