Rainbow Trout in the Popo Agie
by Kathleen Bishop
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Rainbow Trout in the Popo Agie
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Kathleen Bishop
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Photograph - Photography
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Trophy Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) school in rippling, crystalline water on a sandbar in the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie in Sinks Canyon near Lander, Wyoming. These colorful fish are salmonids. For reasons unknown to fisheries biologists, some rainbow trout spend their entire lives in freshwater streams as resident trout while others, after living in rivers for about 3 years become anadromous fish, migrating to the ocean where they become steelhead salmon who, in time, return to their natal streams to spawn.
Surviving the perils of swimming for hundreds of miles to reach the sea, exposed to many kinds of predators along the way, then outlasting the dangers of life in the ocean to journey back to their natal stream is miraculous enough, but unlike coastal anadromous species who die after spawning, steelhead can make the treacherous journeys to spawn several times before they die!
This photograph of rainbow trout is being offered on a variety of designer products, including designer face masks. ©Kathleen Bishop. All Rights Reserved. kathleen-bishop.pixels.com.
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January 8th, 2020
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