Perhaps one of the most interesting things about Atlantic salmon, a common species of ray-finned fish, is that they always return home to give birth. They can spend years out in the ocean, but when it’s time to spawn new life, they will return (with an impressive degree of accuracy) to the very same river, and sometimes even the same stream, that they themselves were born in. According to the United States Geological Survey, this isn’t just a habit, but it’s because they know it’s a safe, good place to spawn, and finding anything else would be a waste of time.
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There are plenty of other interesting facts about salmon. They can jump at least 12 feet in the air, plus they can live in both saltwater and freshwater. But here’s another fish fact: in the European Union, up to 58 million were slaughtered for food in 2017, according to estimates by Fish Count….