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Can you match the description to pictures of salmon at different stages in their life cycle?

1. The parr turn silver and become smolts as they start to travel down river towards the sea. 2. The adult salmon returns to the River Dee where it was born, to spawn.3. Salmon lay pea sized eggs in the river.4. The tiny fry now look like little fish and leave the nest to find food in the river.5. The adult salmon changes colour before spawning, sometimes knows as its 5. The adult salmon changes colour before spawning, sometimes knows as its spawning tartan.6. The parr live in the river for up to 4years and have dark thumbprints and red spots on their sides. 7. The alevins hatch out of the egg and feed on their yolk sac which is still attached.