Spawned-out Pacific salmon provide rich oceanic nutrients to the freshwater and coastal rainforest ecosystems in coastal Alaska

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Each year millions of Pacific salmon return to their natal rivers of Alaska to spawn. The salmon provide rich oceanic nutrients to the freshwater and coastal rainforest ecologies.

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Location: Tongass National Forest, Alaska, USA
Photo credit: © Tim Plowden / Alamy / Afripics
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