Where you find one color of Basculin, you’ll eventually find the other. The stripe is a matter of timing: hatchlings in warm seasons are red and hatchlings in cold seasons are blue. Newborn Basculin don’t recognize their parents, so they join schools of the same color.
Pokéfeature: Blue Basculin can choose Reckless or Zealous as their Level 5 Ability. Red Basculin can choose Rock Head or Lifedrinker.

this one has the hooked mouth that only (spawning male) salmon have

what we learned about salmon and zombie fish w/Salmonids all of a sudden seem a lot more relevant here

female salmon sometimes survive salmon runs