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What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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when do the runs end? would early nov be too late to watch?
and is it unhealthy to bring home a freshly dead salmon home to eat?
From what I heard, usually the great salmon run kinda dies away as October ends.
And the fish are not edible. The dead ones around would usually be feasted by flies or pecked by birds.
The live ones are said to have built up a lot of toxin in the body due to the excess strength to swim upstream. You can visually see the fish's life by looking at it's color in the body. It kinda goes from pinkish, and then red, and when it dies, becoming white.
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Different people find different things amusing.
That's like asking Why do some people like to be choked before reaching an orgasm?
I've no fucking clue as to why they do it but it must bring excitement, pleasure, fun and amusement, which is what some people experience by going to the spawning channels.
While spawning happens every year, the numbers reaches its peak every 4 years, and this year is the 4th year in the cycle. It's said that the numbers this year is greater than a lot of the previous peak years. That's probably the reason why there's such a big hype this year.
Personally, I stopped by because I find a lot of aspects of nature interesting. Plus, it's nice to get out of the city every now and then.
Have you also considered that maybe your coworker was lying just to skip out on a couple hours of work?
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To be honest, I didn't even quite care about the salmon run, but it's just looking at a river really calms any person down from stress. It was also an excuse to take a day off work, spend time with family and have a new topic to talk around town.
Not only do I have a gigantic boner for any nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough, but this one was even better for having been basically in our backyard. If the BBC had to only do two things ever again, let those two be nature documentaries and Top Gear.
5 parts, well worth the watch. Some GORGEOUS shots of bears and eagles catching salmon.
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^^^ Our back yard - nothing like it anywhere in the world.
We truly are lucky to call this our home. It's why people flock to this part of the world. We just have to keep it clean and keep others from destroying it.
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and the water, my god, it is the best there is...............
For those who complain about our high taxes, our high housing prices, etc. GTFO. Go back to your sub zero Edmonton streets, your acid rain covered city of Toronto, your polluted streets of......... nuff said.
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"there but for the grace of god go I"
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Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
Not only do I have a gigantic boner for any nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough, but this one was even better for having been basically in our backyard. If the BBC had to only do two things ever again, let those two be nature documentaries and Top Gear.
Salmon Run ussually starts as early as July maybe even before and last all the way till end of november. They start in the pacific ocean and run thru the fraser river as its main hwy from the pacific they run into different tributaries all across bc some on the island and up the fraser river to Harrison River To the Vedder/Chilliwack River and others along the way. they are basically running to where they were born so they can lay their eggs and the males to drop their sperm and make more salmon then they die. Their body colors change from silver to what ever spawning colors.
Every odd year the pink salmon comes thru u can see them jump and come up in schools here locally in Richmond. that is why every fall the rivers and streams are packed shoulder to shoulder from people coming up here to fish them.
I fish for salmon and its more for the fight of the fish rather than take it home to eat.
Yes of course i will take one home @ the end of the day but it has the a nice silver one wether it be a Spring/Chinook Salmon, a coho or a chum but it has to be silver then if it aint the meat taste like shit!!!
I dont understand why BBC "life" series has Operah as narrator. I dont get a boner with her voice, david attenborough is so much better as a narrator.
+1. David Attenborough's voice = guaranteed boner for me.
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