About Salmon: Digging Redd
In order to lay her eggs (called roe), the female salmon uses her caudal fin to dig a shalow hole in the bottom gravel (a redd) to create a low-pressure zone where her eggs can incubate. The female covers the eggs by disturbing the gravel at the upstream edge of her redds. She may make…![About Salmon: Digging Redd](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/roeeee-480x360.jpg)