1. Quinnat Salmon Salmon eat meat, or at least meat and protein products, as they carnivores. In the wild, salmon dine on zooplankton and small invertebrates. Once they get a bigger, salmon can eat smaller fish, like herring, or the shrimp-like critter called krill. Salmon kept in farms are usually fed a ground-up mixture of other fish and organisms from the ocean. Salomon hatch in fresh water, migrate to the ocean and then return to fresh water to create new young. Salmon Spawn in order to have some offspring because during spawning some of the eggs may be eaten up by other Organisms.