Product Description
Our Plastic Sockeye Salmon This sockeye salmon plastic animal will be enjoyed as part of a school project, diorama, plastic animal collection, as a party favor, or gift. Check out our many other plastic animals online. Be sure to look over our other plastic fish toys. Our PLASTIC SALMON is popular as part of an educational display in museums as well as being useful in river dioramas for school projects. Some people like carrying the salmon with them as a talisman for strength and perseverance. The salmon overcomes great odds to get back to where it was born.
The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) is an oceangoing salmon that also lives in fresh water rivers. Therefore it is anadromus. It is found mainly in the North Pacific and its associated rivers, especially in British Columbia and Alaska, although in 2010 sockeye salmon have been returning in large numbers to the Columbia River which makes the border between Washington and Oregon. The name "Sockeye" is allegedly a folk adaptation of an Indian word from a tribe along the lower Fraser River. In the ocean, where the sockeye lives for 4-6 years, the fish is all silver in color with a blue tinge, but when it returns to the river to spawn, the male becomes bright red with a black face. Spawning season is usually in July or August and, of course, it is totally amazing that the sockeye salmon finds its way back to the source where it was born. It is theorized that each river has a characteristic odor that the sockeye has memorized and therefore navigates by smell.
