Coloring
of
Kokanee
The
Book
The
cle”
Kokariee
and
Life
Education
Cycle
Club
Salmon
Guide Table of Contents
PAGESUBIECT 1. A Beginning and End 2. Let’s Hang Out! 3. A New Look! 4. UseYourNose 5. Building a Nest 6. Courtship and Territory 7. Death and Decay 8. Scavengers 9. On Their Own 10. We Made It! Hatching Out 11. What’s for Dinner? 12. “Teenager’s Rule”
13. Safety in Numbers 14. Beginning Again
15. Did you know? 16. Discussion Questions
17. Answers to Discussion Questions 18. Frequently Asked Questions Answered 19. Frequently Asked Questions Continued 20. Vocabulary Summary 21. Fish Anatomy 22. Bibliography
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VOCABULARY
Spawn:
and
Non-anadromous:
Life
their
and
Kokanee
anadromous
return
cycle:
soon
life when
0
to
all
cycle.
Salmon
after,
spawn
fish
the
fish
different
deposit
A
who
in
fish
Kokanee
die.
fresh
visit
are
that
A
and
Taylor
stages
born
water.
us
Beginning
lives
fertilize
Salmon
here
in
of
its
Creek
fresh
life
entire
eggs
at
from
1
water
Taylor
are
is
life
and
birth
the
non-anadromous
live
cycle
to
Creek
beginning
their
End
in
death
fresh
adult
each
water
lives
and
fall
as
in
the
the
opposed
to
fish.
ocean
spawn
end of
VOCABULARY
School:
of
of
nothing living
In
September,
the
Taylor
when
in
creek
and
Lake
Creek.
:‘<‘A
fish
for
go
collect
Tahoe.
the
through
two
For
adult
in
to
the large
—
The
Let’s
three
Kokanee
past
dramatic groups .
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1)
:L
weeks.
two
Hang
salmon
2
Salmon
to
physical
four
During
Out!
.4
school
years
arrive
changes. that
--
at
they
at
time the
....-
the
have
mouth they
-
mouth ej -. . \>
.
been
1 eat
VOCABULARY
Kype:
jaw
form the
and
Once
males
FEMALE
MALE
females
with
The
female
a
a
change
large,
shiny
hooked
sharp
Kokanee
have
silver
muscular
to
jaw
teeth
a
a
of
very
pinkish-red
color
the
called
change
hump male
bright
with
A
a
Kokanee
their
New
kype.
on
a
red
body
blue
their
3
color
color.
SPAWNING
SPAWNING
Look!
with
stripe,
back
to
The
a
attract
MALE
FEMALE
green
and
both
male
grow
the
their
stripe
Kokanee
male
a
mate.
hooked
and
also
the Now VOCABULARY change
Migrate:
“smell
spawn,
leases Helped
in
of from
to by
season protect
move
home”
the the
from
rush
their
Fallen and
one
of
migrate eggs,
place
cool
Leaf Use
to
water
and Lake
another
up
Your
eventually
Dam
Taylor
4 that
due
Nose
the the
to Creek
the
Kokanee
U.S.
die.
where
Forest
LA
remember
they Service
TAIO..
will
re the
them
tect
of
the
redds;
size
nest Female
VOCABULARY
four
Redd:
spaces
stream
to
the
gravel
by
A
and
six
rocky
each
Kokanee
swishing
eggs
inches
for
they
known
bed.
underground
time
water
from
deep.
both
After
build
her
mating
as
hungry
to
cover
tail
a
laying
run
an
nest
redd.
Building
up
with
underground
the
through.
for
birds
and
her
the
She
a
nest
different
salmon’s
and
down
pea-size
S
turns
A
with
Some
trout,
Nest
to
on
nest
fertilized
pebbles.
male.
loosen
eggs,
females
her
but
made
side
also
eggs;
the
the
The
make
up
and
male
have
usually
pebbles
gravel
of
digs
several
marble-
fertilizes
plenty
pro
her from Territory: VOCABULARY
by
their When
While
salmon
chasing
her
He During
fighting.
quivers
and
redd
the the this
The
to
fertilizes
off
female
female
protect
using and
area
time all other
or
swims
their the
space
is
is
them.
Courtship
their
building
ready
males. male
where
kype
back
territory
Adult
to will
The
and
and
her lay
I
male
also
And
her
6
forth
fights
their
nest, and
live
perform
Kokanee
eggs, Territory
that
the
muscular
over
the can
they
hundreds
male
he
the
be
a fight
protect
moves
courtship
quite
female’s
is
humpback.
busy off
sometimes
of
nasty.
along
other
eggs
“dance:”
back.
side
male in
cycle.
and
Since
ing,
ago
start
float
while their
to
they
The
show
to
bodies
the
female
first
the
signs
males
schooled
surface
have
Kokanee
of
die
Death
white
been
completing
1
at
0
die
to
slowly
the
rotting
and
7
14
three
mouth
days
Decay
decaying
flesh.
another
to
later.
of
five
Taylor
They
days
part
and
soon
Creek
after
of
now
the
will
they
spawn
weeks
life die
VOCABULARY
Scavenger:
whole
These
When
dead
feathers.
bald
raccoons,
Trout
eagles
fish
will
the
Kokanee
scavengers
animals
in
Kokanee
and
nibble,
only
less
bald
that
but
than
eat
ducks
may
eat
die
eagles
not
the
dead
an
they
be
as
take
bodies.
hour.
Scavengers
animals
animals
fast
that
are
a
few
as
Nature
enjoy
soon
8
The
the
with
bites,
raccoons,
eaten
the
crayfish
cleans
shells,
feast
but
by
it
up
who
scavengers.
scales,
the
however
is
after
the
most.
will
coyotes,
fur,
itself.
eat
eat
The
or
one the
VOCABULARY
vive
for
Predators: frogs,
While
“butts
Eggs
burrowing salmon
predators
Bears
the
the
floating
and
spawning
trout,
up”
next
die,
winter
Animals
diving
digging
their
dig
the
three
and
down
up
if
that
eggs
the
bills
other
cool, ducks
and
to
up
kill
the
Kokanee
four
into
have
in
the
eat
On
clear
ducks.
creek
called
order
the
winter
pebbles
the
Their
no
water
7
to
are
redd
will
one
newly
The
Common
9
eat
months.
chased
die
Own
washes
with
to
remaining
to
fertilized
protect
and
try
their
Mergansers.
and
and
soon
through
webbed
them.
eaten
dislodge
eggs
eggs.
be
eaten
will
the
alive
Other
Ducks
feet
After
eggs.
pebbles
only
by
by
and
nearby
go
the
Black
bull sur VOCABULARY Alevin: nutrient Egg-sac Hatch:
Instinct:
fish
egg-sac
instincts
nutrients
meals
Kokanee absorb to Another sac fry:
Inborn, attached immerge
attached
fry Salmon
The
to lasts
term the
not
or return first
from
for alevin, learned
to to
for
scents We
stage eggs the
an
the about
egg-sac later
egg Made underside in
behavior.
underside
hatch
these of
the
as two
fry home
life
spawning
It!
very
cycle to in
of 10
the
Hatching
February
and
three of
of small
tadpole-like their
the
will
weeks. adults.
salmon
baby
later
bellies.
and Out. fish’s
defined
fish
Now
use
March. This
belly.
their
carry these
by Known
a
sac
homing
their
little
of as fiy: VOCABULARY
more
the
The
food
mouth about ing
The
its rocks
fish-like
next
sac. two
second
mouth.
accidentally.
stage
The
for to and a stage
0
three
protection. fry S
now
It
of also
of faces
lacks
the weeks.
the During
S
What’s
learns young a salmon’s its
S upstream
egg-sac
Its
this
to
Kokanee
body for
life
eat, 11
attached time
cycle
and
dinner?
as
is the
in
more
absorbs
food is to
which called
its
small particles
underbelly. fish-like
the
oxygen
fry a
young
fry,
hide
and fall
salmon
and
by
V
among
into
lacks
open lasts
looks
its
its I 12 Teenagers Rule!
The “teenage fish” or fingerling has a long silver body up to one to two inches long. It is about the same size as your pinky finger. In April and May, schools of fingerlings will turn around and swim downstream towards Lake Tahoe.
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LA VOCABULARY Fingerling: The third stage of the salmon’s life cycle. The “teenage” fish is long and slender and looks more like a salmon but is only three-four inches long. adults ing begin Large the the schools and cooler next live waters of the stage fingerlings next Safety in of their two Lake to lives. Tahoe. in dodge four 13 Numbers The years past survivors the in large hungry will schools grow predators to travel be to VOCABULARY ZooDlankton: enough Non-sDawnincl These of ing biological sense a swim small the and around to its creek. large amount spawn. repeating time changes, microscopic adult: (1 Within Lake 2 to of -1 a return 4 the silver Tahoe zooplankton swim weeks inch animals Beginning life adult to long) competing up cycle Taylor they salmon the silvers 14 go of in creek, Creek with the through Again the with a (non-spawning Kokanee lake. blue spawn they other stripe all When collect the and fish Salmon. that the physical die, is at species not adults), Kokanee the continu mature mouth and for Habitat: /OCABULARY where One group or nets enough excess Overpopulation People to lake Kokanee harmful that we reproduce the Too If in good Large If too order overpopulation diseased we can fish and can have ( Many home spawning Weirs) many allow numbers they called from fish actually food to to to lead a because already for half in make the create gr and fish. all salmon Salmon the wildlife Project the in along to the million of the hurt can not habitat unhealthy Department their creek, been their within fish Kokanee Taylor do be Kokanee- the Did For redds. will salmon successfully own. made, this in population. the The you the Creek dig to can of lake. California stream eggs up migrate 15 Creek Fish know...? lead to rocky capture are and There for up taken nests Game Inland Taylor is the not to and Fisheries extra a Creek, enough fish another ie Kokanee. hatchery million place 4. 2. 3. 1. Why Why to Why spawning salmon flesh. Hint: Why Local eat cannot? thousands fish do does don’t are Think fisherman they in whole Common Discussion Mallards salmon. the Taylor the about not of female while Black them? catch catch Creek? why Mergansers only Bears Mallard lay 16 and and most eat Questions so eat eat eat the many (a bears the silvers (a the dabbling eggs diving eggs: dead spawning don’t and in fish? Lake duck) hundreds duck) eat dead the adult Tahoe. able fish to to 4. 3. 2. 1. they the The the The young Grizzlies unhealthy survive stage berries at can not Black Common swallow dead fresh sal like only female spawning do Bears Answers of fish’s the and not flesh. how a the open are flesh Mergansers for large conditions lays do live carrion spawn, life they true human adult their of not fish in so cycle. to the fishing taste. Tahoe. eat many like bills while Black salmon Discussion Kokanee. consumption. bill and the squirrels. Our wide bears eggs 17 can Bears the dead predators are Black open enough Mallards because in Brown decaying have Kokanee the However, Bears Questions wide Most throughout bear been Bears to cannot. so prefer enough eat because and bears family, few known at like eggs are the will ants also Mallards to the but and they to early find enjoy pick do Taylor With Why 95 Do salmon? Lake Lake big salty What in No, Do It northwest means fresh to as Kokanee the these little Tahoe ocean. are Tahoe? 99 does the Creek. Frequently water Kokanee percent “red these food, land ocean-going Canadian has Kokanee fish” spawn from locked the a salmon of low Salmon in all creeks land region. Asked native in source Lake sockeye mean? salmon other locked so and ever Tahoe American much of Questions 18 salmon who lakes. creeks zooplankton Kokanee swim Kokanee smaller have They language (Kokanee) to that don’t more the Answered never Salmon than flow for ocean? food grow from visit only the the into spawn available. to fish. the the swim ocean be as in just Also, winters. conditions the the What Fallen Washoe In Clean, all salmon for into the Are when in Kokanee sands Taylor 1 the the water rocks 944. north the Kokanee the the makes Leaf the Frequently clear of Kokanee Lahontan and right did lake? They Creek Salmon Forest which years? it from Native possible Lake creates their water not Taylor size Salmon were the the find Service helps Dam would were Cutthroat eggs American for provides fish abundant a for dumped Asked Kokanee Creek concentrated so making the native introduced to spawning. hatchery controls choose Taylor live eggs Trout. a so Washoe Questions: into healthy 19 to in. their pebbles in special Creek to it our Lake the As that the to over survive Redds. amount the water water Lake fished lake environment once Tahoe? can (marble or other water unique Tahoe’s the near have Continued flow but resided of Tahoe churns creeks long Were oxygen size) instead Tahoe the at that the ecosystem for there. 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A animal fish fish the area adult animal for small third term stage water no first fish’s deposit from collect different jaw A animals or but from learned that salmon fish fatty for stage stage that space of of live is one belly. of rocky the the that egg-sac an kills in only and fin eats the their stages of large in place behavior. with egg. where salmon’s male without lives in the fertilize the nest 3 trout dead order adult to a Vocabulary fry groups. to salmon’s life from Kokanee. its blue 4 of animals and another animals. inches bones the cycle entire lives to life eggs. birth stripe salmon eat Kokanee cycle, in of life live long. found life (seasonally). to the the that cycle. that death. cycle family. still ocean salmon on is 20 they very not The in a fish’s and fresh Summary mature protect round defined “teenage return water back tadpole-like enough sometimes by to fish” between as a spawn nutrient opposed @1 is to long spawn. the but in fresh sac and dorsal to without \ \ anadromous attached slender \ water. and its tail egg-sac and to fins. the fish looks under at who This Operculum (gill cover) Fish Anatomy Dorsal Fin Adipose Tail or Fin Fin US Reed-Jones, Field, Bernbach,Linda Fish Steelhead Dawn Dog-eared Fisheries Nancy & Wildlife Publications Carol. & and Coloring Sally Publications. &Jennifer Service. Oceans. Machlis. Salmon Bibliography Rook. China Canada. Stone. Middleton, Stream. The 22 USFWS. 2000 Discovering Pacific 2005 Scales No WI. Salmon year 1 and 993 Salmon. of Tales. and copyright. KOKANEE “CYCLE” CLUB Written by Jean D. Norman Illustrations by Timothy D. Rains USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Publication Published 2005 Revised September 2009