Every year, millions of juvenile salmon are born in Pacific Northwest rivers

These wild baby salmon and their hatchery-bred relatives…

swim down the Snake and Columbia rivers on their way to the Pacific Ocean.

The young fish swim through… and around dams…

past predators ...

and through the estuary

until the surviving youngsters finally reach the sea. (Whew!)

Living in the ocean can be just as challenging as the journey to get there…