Salmon eggs as food

Salmon eggs provide an important ecological subsidy to salmon spawning streams. Resident salmonines, in particular, benefit through ovivory. They are facultative ovivores. Loose eggs can be scavenged as well, particularly by birds.

Dolly Varden Charr predate a Sockeye Salmon redd as the female works to cover it with stream sediment
Dolly Varden Charr (Salvelinus malma lordi) predate a Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) redd as the female works to cover it with stream sediment.
Rainbow Trout searching for eggs to eat
Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) searching for eggs to eat while a female Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) probes her redd after spawning in Montana Creek near Talkeetna, Alaska
Rainbow Trout about to eat a loose egg as a female Chinook Salmon covers her redd
Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) about to eat a loose egg as a female Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) covers her redd after spawning in Montana Creek near Talkeetna, Alaska.