Sunday, August 23, 2015

Travel to Canada for eyeball with Canada’s migrating salmon

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Adventuring the ocean for admiring the migrating salmon in Canada is really exciting and fascinating for many tourists. Although this travel form is quite dangerous, it attracts many people love adventuring.



My brain froze as I submerged into the cold water of British Columbia’s Shuswap Lake. But the discomfort paled as I watched sockeye salmon – hundreds of cherry-tinted fish with moss-green heads – swirl overhead like a kaleidoscope. At the end of an epic 4,000km journey, they were waiting to swim the final leg upstream to spawn and die. Over the last four years, these fish had migrated to the Gulf of Alaska and back, navigating by magnetic fields and the scent of their home waters. They had thrashed 485km in from the Pacific, climbing rapids and skirting dams, all the while avoiding hungry predators. Most undertaking the journey – 99.9%, in fact – wouldn’t survive the return trip to the Shuswap, the spectacular lake region 400km northeast of Vancouver. But those that made it would fuel the area’s ecology, delivering rich marine nutrients to land-locked plants and animals.

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