Question

Consider that a species of salmon lays 20,000 eggs per pair when it spawns and dies. At the end of five years, an average of one pair of mature salmon from this group of hatched eggs returns again to spawn in the parent stream (19,998 have died). What is the per capita rate of increase?

Answer 1

the per capita rate of increase is 10,000

Step-by-step explanation:

As Per parent fish at least 10,000 eggs will be produced