Spawning Salmon Pins and Buttons

Last guy at the bar during spawning season, and he is lookin' at you.

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It is a member of he salmonoid family and is found in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean along East Asia, ranging from the Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, and Primorsky Krai south through Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. It enters rivers to spawn. Its spawning run starts earlier than that of other salmon species.

The Spawning Sockeye Salmon come in from the sea between ages of 3 to 5 years old to spawn in their birth waters.

Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

The 5 types of pacific salmon, hand-painted in gouache. Also available without the pattern repeat, in labeled and unlabeled versions.

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Salmon jumping and swimming upstream to spawn in Bear Creek near Seward Alaska.

This design is vector images made from an acrylic painting. It depicts the spawn of the Sockeye Salmon of the Pacific Northwest.

The 5 types of pacific salmon, hand-painted in gouache. Also available in a labeled version and in a repeated pattern.

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This was part of a series of 2, a visual commentary about the diminishing numbers of spawning salmon in the Fraser River in interior BC as well as the coast of BC that was leaving bears and other animals starving and hungry looking for their regular food source.

The 5 types of pacific salmon, hand-painted in gouache with added labels. Good for teaching and comparing the types! Also available without the labels and in a repeated pattern.

A little-known relative of a celebrity - Scrungepad Nopants. An Out to Lunch Cartoon by Rich Diesslin.

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