Fish Need to Move! Learning About Fish Migration - Atlantic salmon

People say we are delicious to eat! We are very nutritious and a valuable food source for many animals. Hundreds of thousands of us used to migrate from the Atlantic Ocean to the rivers where we hatched to spawn new generations of salmon. Only small numbers of us return to North America now, mostly to Maine and eastern Canada.  Our numbers are very low primarily due to dams and overfishing. Some of us have been “landlocked” in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain since the retreat of the glaciers, and we do not migrate out to the ocean.