I thought I'd hop in really quick today and give you a little peek at what I've been seeing while here in Alaska. Today a group of us went hiking in Sitka, and among the sights we saw were salmon in the midst of their spawning migration upriver. In some parts of the river, it was a bit of an intense scrum as the salmon tried to swim past one another upstream on their way back to their spawning grounds. Many fish were dead by the side of the water; either having never made it back, or having been washed back downriver by recent rainstorms after successfully attempting to reproduce further upstream. Quite an interesting thing to see in person -- particularly after having spent several days fishing in the ocean and some members of our group having had the luck to catch a few salmon while out on the open water.
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