Northwest coast – the creation of the salmon There was once a Salish boy who lived in a village in the Northwest Pacific Coast. Everybody did something to help the others living in the village. This boy felt like he had no purpose because he couldn’t help the village in any way. He was a tall, lanky boy who couldn’t carry a bag of tools or row a canoe. His name was Chaske but the people referred to him as Sam or Sammy. Sammy didn’t talk to any of the other boys or girls in the village because they were always helping the village alongside their parents. Sammy always took walks in the nearby forests. He would walk on his own and look at the tree and the wildlife to see what he could find. One day, Sammy stumbled upon a strange looking object. He had walked through the same forest many times and had never seen such a thing. It had the height of a small tree, the width of a person and around five or six different faces vertically stacked on top of one another. After further inspection, the faces began to look like different species of animals. He recognized most of the faces – bear, eagle, wolf, and deer – but couldn’t recognize one. It …show more content…
He eventually passed out from lack of hydration. When he awoke he was in a part of the forest he had never been in before. He did not recognize which way was north, south, east or west. He looked all around and he could only see tree after tree after tree. He began to smell algae as he walked deeper into the forest towards the scent. Where there are algae, there is bound to be water. The sound got louder as he continued to walk. He heard water clashing against rocks. He had found a rapid in a river he had never seen before. The water was going very fast down the river and along with the water; a different kind of species was jumping up and down, into and out of the water. He had seen it before but didn’t know the name of it. It was the animal from the pole he had found in the
He began to think of how he could get his hands free then he could get the noose from his neck, jump into the water and swim to his escape. When he dropped from the bridge, the rope snapped into and he fell into the water. His hands freed themselves and untied the rope from around his neck. He reached the surface and realized that his senses were super human. He saw things very distinctly. He realized that he was being shot at, he escaped and made it safely to dry land. He began his journey home, about 30 miles away. He traveled through seemingly never ending forest. He was moving along day and night with no rest or food and was very sore. He heard strange noises coming from the woods. He believed that as he was walking, he fell into a sleep. About the time he woke up at home with his wife and kids, he felt a searing pain in his neck and everything went
In the California Central Valley, fall‐run juvenile Chinook salmon rear typically from January to June. However, in some years, the rearing period may be reduced due to high water temperatures in April. Growth and survival rates of juvenile Chinook salmon are affected by water temperature and cover (e.g., substrate pore spaces, gravel interstices, boulders, snags, over‐hanging vegetation, root wads, under‐cut banks, and macrophytes). Cover is important for protection from predation, flow displacement, water temperature stress, and the fish caloric intake optimization. Human-induced sources of stress to the riverine ecosystems include: “(1) overfishing (i.e., extracting larger quantities of fish than the system can sustain naturally); (2) nutrient
This is a paper about the book Finding Fish: A Memoir, which was written by Antwone Fisher. By necessity given the nature of the book, the main character will be examined at length. Through careful examination of the main character a deeper understanding of the book can be reached. After the examination, a number of theoretical perspectives will be applied to the main character, as well as an explanation of how these perspectives can be used to evaluate Antwone in order to understand him better. The perspectives that will be used will be the strengths, systems, conflict, humanistic, and psychodynamic perspectives. Following the connection of the perspectives to Antwone, an explanation of why social workers use theories and
An endangered species is a species of either plant or animal that is in serious risk of becoming extinct. This name became connected with the Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in 1994 after being petitioned to be put on the list for nine years (NOAA). There are two main reasons behind the endangerment of the Chinook salmon: over exploration, and dams. Since the times of the Native Americans, Chinook salmon have been highly sought after as a food source. Since then the salmon have experienced great amounts of overfishing. Along with water demands which has resulted in overuse of water and diversion of water had affected spawning sites and loss of habitat putting further strain on their habitats (National Wildlife Federation).
He falls in to the ocean waters. He let out a blaring shriek for help, and no one came. Next, when he got cold headed he started swimming to the nearest island he could see. He finally gets to the island and he starts to rest. Then, when he wakes up he looks around and sees a pool of blood around him.
He swims to the opposite side of the shore and a cannonball misses him as well. He starts traveling through the forest, he grew tired and hungry thinking of his wife and children. There is no human life on this road and he starts to hear strange noises and words whispered in a language that he does not understand. His whole entire body is swollen as he proceeds to feel all over his body. He found himself at the gate of the property, his wife is moving towards him.
In the short story “What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?”, the author, Avi, uses the protagonist’s (William “Willie” Markham) mother, Mrs. Markham, to explore the theme of happiness. Her sorrow in the tale affects Willie as well in a negative manner. Although she is able to supply William’s basic list of everyday needs (food, clothing, etc.), she unable to give him the encouragement and emotional protection a young child needs. Her lack of patience, her deficiency to quench Willie’s curiosity, and her disregard for the boy’s feelings highlight Mrs. Markham’s rotting mothering skills.
When Elizabeth Bishop writes a poem of someone’s experience catching a fish, the person catching the fish, presumed as the narrator, describes the fish’s intricate details which essentially gives it an ugly appearance. In an explication of “The Fish,” the analyzer also notes how the narrator’s descriptions yield an ugly appearance of the fish, but with further observation, the narrator realizes the beauty deep within the fish and the fact that the fish is a warrior. The ugly description of the outside of the fish correlates with how some people tend to make a quick judgment based on someone’s appearance without taking the time to think about what their personality or characteristics include. Or even to think about what that person has been through that has caused them to look that way. Evidently, as the poem continues, the narrator reveals that the fish has been through at least five battles, according to the physical scars left in its jaw. The fish, a symbol for anyone who has dealt with difficulties during their life, will persevere even while the outside world continues its routine.
Sockeye Salmon numbers going down by the thousands due to warm rivers. The snake and Columbia river's temperatures killed all but a few dozen of the 4,000 adult endangered sockeye.
A. Storytellers in educational settings are hired to train teachers, to perform in classrooms and assemblies, to teach families, children and teachers the basic skills of storytelling.
For this project, we are researched the salmon trade and how it has evolved over the years. The salmon commodity chain has three main consumers – the United States, Japan, and China. The development of aquaculture has changed our consumption of salmon drastically over the past decades, with Norway leading the aquaculture industry, and Chile fast catching up. Because of differing standards of farming, the quality of cultivated salmon varies; some farms may use chemicals, while others focus on a sustainable farming process focused on longevity of humans, salmon, and the earth. Atlantic salmon used to overflow waters ranging from Quebec to Newfoundland, all the way southwest to Long Island Sound. Come the beginning of the 19th
Many steps are being taken to help the salmon population. A couple of things humans are doing to help them is restoring streams and removing dams. Dams disrupt the spawn areas for salmon. When dams are destroyed it allows the rivers to run free and for the salmon to travel to the sea without having to worry about surviving through the dams. Humans are also restoring streams by adding trees and rock to them. They trying to restore the streams to their original natural state before the streams where straightened in the 1940s and 1950s. This type of original curving stream is the type of ecosystem that salmon would go to spawn in. Humans could be less disruptive to the salmon population. We could find better ways to power electricity, to water
Salmon is Everything has showed me that the arts can be an effective means of communicating with the public as well as helping to open the minds of the parties involved in these management decisions. The arts can also have a down side if people take it too literally. Most plays and books are works of fiction. This could lead to some confusion of the issue as well as some wish full thinking. The use of that arts can be a grate tool to help educate the masses and bring people together to compromise, but I feel that there are some ways in which it can hinder the process.
The graphics illustrate salmon’s life cycle. Overall, the life span of salmon is approximately ten years, which include three major phase during their lives, called, fry, smolt and adult salmon, respectively.
Salmon is one of the best fish to eat because of its texture and taste. I learned this in my Foods 1 class my sophomore year in high school. I trusted my friends to make sure everything was right when we cooked it because they have cooked salmon before. It payed off when i got to taste it because it was one of the best fish i have ate. I have never ate salmon but my friends talked me into it in when we pick the recipe.