I spotted these beautiful Chinook Salmon swimming in an Alaskan waterway. These beautiful Earthlings spend 1 to 8 years in the ocean then return home to the stream where they were born in order to spawn.
What is the Chinook salmon to do as humans destroy their habitat? Humans scientists tell us that over the past few years the number of Chinook salmon leaving the rivers in the Pacific Northwest have dropped. The Chinook salmon could be extinct by 2016.
Chinook Salmon swims upstream.
Freshwater streams and estuaries are the natural habitat for Chinook salmon.
The survival rate of baby Chinook salmon is very low. Eggs are laid in deeper water with large gravel, and require cool water and good water flow for oxygen to survive. Baby Chinook salmon grow in the protective streams and wetlands until they are big enough to swim out into the open ocean. They can grow to be 100 pounds (45 kgs.) Sadly, humans are draining wetlands, building dams, and polluting streams with industrial waste. This is killing the beautiful Chinook salmon.
Recently, a few intelligent and thoughtful humans in the governments of the U.S. and Canada agreed to prevent overfishing of salmon off the coast of Vancouver Island and southeast Alaska. This could help 1 million more Chinook to return to hatcheries or spawning areas in Puget Sound.
More must be done to help save the Chinook Salmon from extinction. Humans, please help through these wonderful organizations:
WildSalmonCenter.org
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Posted by: Jinny | March 01, 2009 at 09:47 PM