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Officials guessed that 4,000,000 sockeyes would struggle up the 300-odd miles from the Fraser delta to Adams Lake in the next few weeks, to spawn and die; in the spring of 1948 millions of baby salmon would head down the river for the sea, would return in 1950 to complete the cycle...
...water, give the sockeyes a chance to rest in artificial pools in their upstream struggle. The commission hopes to restore the sockeye cycle to the pre-1913 catch of $35 million a year. But it will not know for sure whether it has succeeded until 1950, when the spawn of the present generation comes home...
When the summer moon is full and the tide is high, the grunion run in Southern California. The grunion (rhymes with bunion) are small (6-in.), smelt-like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...
...worked out a breathtaking scheme to make all this water power possible and salmon, too. This "most tremendous biological experiment in American history," described in the February Harper's by Richard L. Neuberger, is nothing less than a plan to teach the Chinook to forget the Columbia headwaters, spawn instead in the streams below Bonneville...
When the new-hatched Chinook had grown to fingerlings, they were marked (by fin-clipping) and dumped out to swim to the Pacific. When, four years later, the full-grown fish swam back up the Columbia to spawn, the biologists watched them anxiously. Sure enough, instead of heading for the waters above Grand Coulee, as their parents had done, the fish swam up the lower streams into which they had been dumped as fingerlings, and spawned there...