The diagram below shows the life cycle of a salmon, from eggs to adult fish.

The diagram illustrates several stages in the development of a kind of fish called salmon.

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there are 8 main stages involved in

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process, beginning with eggs being laid in the river and continuing to grow into adult fish in the ocean. As can be seen, female salmons tend to choose rivers as a place for their spawning. After being laid, the eggs are incubated during the incubation period, and

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the babies emerge. At

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stage, those with long tails do not have the appearance of a normal fish.

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as growing up, they move to the freshwater area first and

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the estuary later. Once migrating to the estuary, those creatures keep staying there for rearing and turn bigger in size.

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, they finish their growth and become fully mature before returning to the ocean.

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, the adult salmons carry on the migration to the spawning places again in order to mate and spawn, the life cycle begins all over repeatedly.