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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (101259)	4/14/2005 6:31:38 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 108807

In Juneau, I used to watch the salmon returning up the fish ladder to Salmon Creek, which took a short detour through Dipac Hatchery. There they waited in line, beating themselves against a grate trying to get in. The drive that they have is unbelievable and admirable, although somewhat tragic and depressing to observe, knowing that the best they can hope for is to be stripped of their eggs and milt so their progeny can return to sea. They die, of course. If they escape the hatchery, they die a slow and lingering natural death, only to be snapped up by ravens. The building where I worked stood by a stream that was a municipal water supply. There was a flume channel for a few hundred yards designed to have a flow velocity too fast for them, and with no resting pools for misguided salmon. The object of this was to keep salmon out of the municipal water. They got as far as the foot of the flume, and tried and tried until the ravens got them, but they never got more than a few feet up the flume. Their urge is truly unbelievably powerful.