Salmon Cam

Jonny and I decided to visit Salmon Creek by the hatchery today. We walked into the wetlands and dropped our underwater camera into the creek amongst hundreds of spawning dog salmon! It was really quite an exciting place to be. Just below us, we could see countless fish swarming, fighting against the rushing water. Many of them were laying eggs!

On our video, you can see how the salmon seem to be falling apart. Once they hit the fresh water again, they go through a strange transformation. Each species goes through their own unique changes. Dog salmon, the fish in this video, develop green and purple bars on their sides and display long, hooked teeth. They completely stop eating and do nothing but devote themselves to reproduction. Many of them have bacterial and fungal infections. Their flesh is squishy and practically rotten while they're still alive. After they finally make it back to the streams they were hatched in, they spawn. After that, the fish just wait around until they starve to death and die. Jonny and I could see how weak and tired the salmon appeared. Many fish rested in the shallow water, struggling to breathe as they barely clung to life. Along the banks we could see dead carcasses being torn apart by gulls. It was quite sad, really. But the salmon do this every year, and their dead bodies bring life to all of Alaska.

WARNING: This video is not for the faint of heart! This video contains fish on fish violence, bad fishy behavior, lewd sexual acts with fish, and graphic fish images..

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That's all for now!