Why are chum salmon called five-day wonders? When baby chum salmon hatch out of the gravel, they swim headfirst all the way to their estuary in just 5 days. Coho, for comparison, will stay in the stream for a year before heading out and gently let the current take them as their heads point upstream. If tiny chum salmon can travel all the way to the ocean in just five days, what can we accomplish in the same amount of time? Help us continue […]