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anadromous

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anadromous
said of fish; those living most of their lives in the sea but entering rivers to spawn.

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The FishAmerica Foundation will be offering up to $800,000 in grants for marine and anadromous sportfish habitat restoration projects across the coastal United States and Great Lakes Basin area.
Atlantic tomcod, Microgadus tomcod, is a common anadromous species in many estuaries along the Atlantic Coast of North America from the Hudson River to Labrador, Canada (Bigelow and Schroeder 1953).
That, in turn, will prevent sediment from accumulating in the adjacent Clearwater River, which supports populations of threatened and endangered anadromous fish.
 
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