Usually means: Adaptation of salmon for seawater.
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▸ noun:  The series of physiological changes where juvenile salmonid fish adapt from living in fresh water to living in seawater.

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smolting, presmolt, anadromy, parr, fingerling, grilse, salter, sparling, pink, laspring, more...

Opposite:
desmolification, de-smoltification

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Similar:
smolting, presmolt, anadromy, parr, fingerling, grilse, salter, sparling, pink, laspring, more...

Opposite:
desmolification, de-smoltification



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