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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: Sprool on 26/04/2012 16:06:12

Title: a fish out of water...
Post by: Sprool on 26/04/2012 16:06:12

How do salmon, that migrate from saline to fresh water environments, survive the osmotic pressures during transition from one system to the other?

Title: Re: a fish out of water...
Post by: Lmnre on 26/04/2012 21:12:09

Try googling salmon saline fresh water osmotic pressures, and read the first result (a PDF file about salmon smolts from Fisheries and Oceans Canada).

Title: Re: a fish out of water...
Post by: CliffordK on 26/04/2012 21:35:44

The subject has also come up a few times on TNS.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/latest-questions/question/1997/
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=14896
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/latest-questions/question/3129/
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=10044.0
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/qotw/show/2008.06.09/