{"id":18336,"date":"2023-12-19T06:51:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T01:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18336"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:46:33","slug":"chum-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chum-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chum salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Chum salmon<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a species of\u00a0anadromous salmonid fish, which means they\u00a0hatch in freshwater streams and rivers and then migrate out to the saltwater environment of the ocean to feed and grow.<\/li>\n<li>They do not reside in fresh water for an extended period.<\/li>\n<li>They are also known as dog salmon.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution\n<ul>\n<li>They are the most widely distributed\u00a0of all the Pacific salmon.<\/li>\n<li>They are found throughout the\u00a0North Pacific Ocean and range from the Arctic coast of Canada and throughout the northern coastal regions of North America and Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Habitat\n<ul>\n<li>They spend their\u00a0early life growing and feeding in\u00a0freshwater streams, estuaries, and associated wetlands.<\/li>\n<li>They spend the remainder of their life foraging in the ocean before returning to the streams and tributaries where they were born to spawn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Salmonid?<\/h3>\n<p>Salmonids are carnivorous predators of the middle food chain, feeding on smaller fish, crustaceans, aquatic insects and larvae, tadpoles and sometimes fish eggs. They have a relatively primitive appearance among teleost fish, with the pelvic fins being placed far back, and an adipose fin towards the rear of the back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/scientists-find-chum-salmon-breeding-in-arctic-and-they-believe-its-an-ominous-sign-670905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists find chum salmon breeding in Arctic, and they believe it\u2019s \u2018an ominous sign\u2019<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chum salmon is a species of anadromous  salmonid fish, which means they hatch in freshwater streams and rivers and then migrate out to the saltwater environment of the ocean to feed and grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}