The mighty fish leaves a small river for the big ocean where he survives in a totally hostile environment. Then he goes back home, meets a lady fish, spawns and dies.
The moral of this story is, "DON'T GO BACK HOME and date a hometown girl."
What can you do? It is the circle of life. Spawn and die.
Steelhead (which is a rainbow trout), sea run cutthroat trout, and Atlantic salmon can survive spawning (and return again), but Pacific salmon do not. The theory is there is most western rivers are nutrient poor and the decaying bodies of their parents help nurture aquatic insects that the young fry eat on their way downriver to the sea.
People drag it out for about fifty or sixty years, but basically do the same thing. Well except being food for insects, but metaphorically it is similar.
The mighty fish leaves a small river for the big ocean where he survives in a totally hostile environment. Then he goes back home, meets a lady fish, spawns and dies.
ReplyDeleteThe moral of this story is, "DON'T GO BACK HOME and date a hometown girl."
What can you do? It is the circle of life. Spawn and die.
DeleteSteelhead (which is a rainbow trout), sea run cutthroat trout, and Atlantic salmon can survive spawning (and return again), but Pacific salmon do not. The theory is there is most western rivers are nutrient poor and the decaying bodies of their parents help nurture aquatic insects that the young fry eat on their way downriver to the sea.
People drag it out for about fifty or sixty years, but basically do the same thing. Well except being food for insects, but metaphorically it is similar.
Starting to look like TOP if you're going to do non-Rule 5 photo essays.
ReplyDeleteWhen do you start closing comments?
When my significant other is a douchebag like Meade...which means never.
DeleteA diffuse sub category of Rule 5, perhaps, involving Vibrant Beauty and Potency?
ReplyDeleteCelebrating the power of red and procreation!
I think spawning sockeyes are a jewel of nature. A natural wonder.
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