Show 1 r. r I Sawn Salmon jy R 11 Her r Way j to the Spawning Beds A j Chinook sul on entering mouth of or the Columbia raver 1 a i the ibo in month on of March Maich 11 i or 0 April Api a a j strong swimmer weighing from twenty to eighty s. s 4 the She has fed feet fat on sea sen food and her egg eg sacs may contain from l 1500 OO to r reg eggs Time The flesh of the salmon Is bright ht pink al almost re red anti and m is full of oil When she leaves lea the sea sea and hea heads s upstream her last last heal meal has has been eaten The fatty tissue in the thc bod body Is the time fuel for the long trl trip and the food tl Unit that nt nourishes time tile eggs An powerful all-powerful Instinct has hns taken possession of the for day by day she heads slowly on toward the spawning bed beel It Is a Journey of perhaps perhaps per per- perhaps haps a n thousand tho miles and und with many obstacles to pass the trip may take e efrom from four fO to six months Time The Th trail of the Chinook lends leads past endless lines of nets Rill the wire fences of fish trap the barriers of ot set nets and fish wheels the dangerous danger danKer ous entanglements of ot seines deadly whirling halts spears and other ingenious Ingenious in In- genious devices c to say nothing of ot the tIle many I natural and artificial dame But Rut the Chinnok never loses sight of ot her mission In life In the long ong struggle over 1 innumerable obstacles her bo body y may be attacked by tun fungus us and disease her fins tIns ma may be he half haIr worn oft off but she keeps on heading up upstream upstream upstream stream beh between eon rock walls where the torrent bolls boils until at nt last she ahe is ia at home lOme on the gravelly gra bars bare of ot the head waters By turning and twisting she the wallows wallows wal wal- lows out ont a nest In time tile sand and gravel and in the thc final effort of ot life Ute lays her eggs Her mate Is close be be- hind He keeps keep other fish tish away away- W W. I L. L Finley In Nature Magazine rn |