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To: abuelita who wrote (69914)	7/9/2008 2:21:08 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

Nice fish. For Mq's benefit, that silver color is what we call "sea bright". In fresh water they gradually turn pink and crimson. I caught a "spring" in BC many years ago. Somewhere around New Hazelton, I think. We were traveling and just stopped briefly at a likely spot on a creek by the highway. Tossed a spinner into a riffle by a stump and caught a few tiny rainbows at first. Tried one more cast and wham, a nice 4-pound jack. Just what we wanted for dinner. Yum!

To: abuelita who wrote (69914)	7/9/2008 2:50:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Rose, I've eaten a lot of fish just out of water, so I know what it's like. But salmon would be another dimension. Especially the sea-going variety I think. Salt water is especially alive. Fresh water fish are slightly murky somehow. Lacking a certain zing. I'm lazy in my geezerdom and have not been fishing for decades. The fish shop does a good enough job. A friend sometimes stops in on the way home from fishing and drops off a couple, which is very nice of him. He and I used to fish off Mangere Bridge 45 years ago and we are thinking of going again now that the Manukau harbour has come back to life after being poisoned for 40 years by sewage, lead runoff from roads, Pike's Point rubbish dump landfill, Pacific Steel oil and muck disposal, Westfield abbatoir using the harbour as an offal and blood dumping ground. When I was 4, it was a harbour seething with life. It gradually died until there was not a single living thing. Maybe there were some microbes, but not a visible crab, worm, mollusc or anything. Now the kawhai are surging, cockles, crabs, oysters, sting rays and other stuff are back. It's still gaining ground. The bridge is lined with people fishing again and they are catching! It was a boom, then a bust, now a recovery. It would be great if fish like yours were surging. What a catch! Lucky you to be able to do that. When following your link, I saw a comment that Mexico has got a lot of desperate people as money isn't being sent home from the USA. I hadn't thought of that. There is some very major market clearing going on and major readjustment for lives around the world. Scary times. People sometimes readjust by becoming violent. WWII sprang from the depression, fed by the outcome of WWI. When families are short of money, squabbling and outright war and divorce can result. Countries get hot under the collar too. Fingers crossed, Gung Ho, Mqurice

To: abuelita who wrote (69914)	10/27/2010 5:04:45 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Rose, this is amazing! The Fraser River had a return of only 1 million sockeye salmon in 2009, but it jumped to 35 million in 2010. They think a volcano fertilized the ocean... Is B.C.'s sockeye boom a one-off? theglobeandmail.com The sockeye boom of 2010, he said, looks like it was caused by a volcanic eruption in Alaska, in 2008. Relying on research done by Roberta Hamme, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, Dr. Parsons speculates that the eruption of the Kasatochi volcano fertilized the sea, and stimulated the growth of the salmon, leading to higher survival rates. Ms. Hamme, in a paper published in the science journal, Geophysical Research Letters, reports that a shower of iron-rich ash fell on the Gulf of Alaska after the eruption.