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What is Different about
inner Bay of Fundy Salmon?
- Inner Bay of Fundy' (or 'iBoF')
salmon, are called this because they spawn in the rivers around
the upper Bay.
- They are genetically different
from all other salmon, and they act it.
- Unlike those born in the rivers
of the outer Bay of Fundy, and indeed like those in most of North
America, few iBoF salmon go on long journeys to Labrador or Greenland.
- They are diehard Maritimers,
spending their winters near the mouth of the Bay of Fundy and
in the adjacent Gulf of Maine, where there are plenty of small
shrimp-like invertebrates, young herring and other foods.
- They mature more quickly than
most other salmon, often after only one winter at sea, and make
frequent returns to their rivers of birth, spawning year after
year. Or they did - today very few adults return.
- They are on the edge of extinction,
almost certainly due to mortality within the Bay of Fundy - and
no one knows why.
