River Wye Atlantic Salmon

Filmed by Meyrick Ames in early December 2020, a large male salmon (cock fish) guards a 'redd' in which the hen fish with whom he spawned has laid her eggs. Cock fish will stay and protect the eggs until they die. Hen fish leave the redd immediately after spawning and attempt to migrate back to sea. Only a small percentage of them return to spawn a second time, however.