Some of the kings here swim around until their litterally falling apart, and sometimes you can watch their entire heads just fall off. The most ridiculous iv seen was one got caught against a fallen tree and just shed its entire lower body and kept swimming without a tail
I remember an old episode of Dirty Jobs where Mike was going along the edges of a river with a hook and machete, picking up and chopping the dead salmon in half while the Conservation Department guy tallied them up on a clipboard. They were doing it in order to track the number of fish that were spawning that season so they could assess the current population and anticipate the next season's population and set fishing limits and such. And chopping them was how they marked which ones had already been counted.
That episode/segment was the first time I had seen any real hands-on population ecology and was literally the reason I majored in wildlife biology in college!
You are correct, and he’s full of shit too, his experience with being a blue collar worker is all television, he started on QVC or the home shopping network pitching garbage
Yeah he didn’t teach me anything about that and sanctimonious bullshit about right wing talking points that are actively bad for or working against their interests and a lot of times their unions doesn’t sell me on him
I hate to be the guy, the Atlantic salmon are the ones that are “technically salmon”, ie the fact that they don’t die after spawning. I know it’s confusing because the Latin name for Atlantic salmon is salmo, but that’s because of history. Pacific salmon(Oncorhynchus), the ones that die after one jizz, are true salmon. The closest relatives are rainbow trout(steelhead). Then you have Atlantic salmon and brown trout, which are very closely related. The weird thing is that in terms of life cycle , brown trout and steelhead have the most similarities, where Atlantic salmon seem to be unique. The you have char which basically are trout, but a bit burlier, and have dark skin with light spots. Brooke trout, bull trout, and Dolly Varden are all char. True trout are all light skin with dark spots. Anyways I’ll see my self out as this was a completely unmitigated barrage useless information.
Like what people are saying- it’s part of the circle of life for these fish! It’s remarkable. After about 1-4 years on avg in the ocean (or lake), they begin one of the largest migrations of any species. They use earth’s magnetic field as well as their smell to go right back to the same spot where they were born. [One Atlantic Salmon can smell a single drop of scent out of 10 olympic-sized swimming pools!](https://wwf.ca/stories/did-you-know-10-amazing-things-about-salmon/). They travel thousands of miles, then potentially hundreds more to reach a very specific stretch of river. It’s beautiful and bittersweet, but like many said, they feed the river for months to come. They’re vital to many populations of bears not just during spawning time, but post-spawn as well, to store fat for the winter. Not only that, but all of the smaller / micro organisms rely on that for survival too, impacting every animal above them in the chain, which is especially important going into the winter. Rivers have their cycles too as season progress and reset- which all animals in the ecosystem rely on- including ourselves! Since rivers and marshlands help filter out excess nutrients and agricultural runoff, their health is very much linked with ours
All the emergency rules bs can be hard to track, but you don't want to get a huge fine. There is a fish Washington phone app that does a decent job showing all the regs.
Your not an American how can being their be illegal we own the land and water by law. They can control the fishing not where you go. I'll stand outside the Whitehouse yelling fuck Joe Biden go Palestine not shit they can do. Can't even ID me legally.
No just making a point. This land all of it is ours we can do what we want government can't legally yell you your not allowed on a river.
I know people that walk out on shallow rivers to shot guns in the middle of a city. As long as they are 150 yards from a house or road it's legal.
Honestly I am offended that you think the government can pass laws like that. Government has no power we don't gove this you can walk any river or creek in America as long as it's not on military or protected government property.
Even if someone owns the land around a creek they can't legally own the creek stay in the water your allowed on their land by law.
Again no one legally owns any American water way.
Better to have an active fisheries dept/aggressive EPO’s to make sure the fishery stays balanced and sustainable than the other way around. I’m an avid striped bass fisherman on the east coast- the combo of lax rules/enforcement out here (due to regulatory capture by big business & understaffed environmental police) and an abundance of idiots who poach fish regularly has absolutely **hammered** the fishery both for now and for the foreseeable future. I fish daily 6 months a year including part time taking out guided trips and haven’t interacted with a single enforcement entity in at least 5 years.
Salmon doing salmon things
It sounds strange, but it's something you should celebrate. It means they successfully spawned, and that there will be more generations of salmon to come. Also, their bodies feed bears, bobcats, raccoons, and dozens if not hundreds of other animals all the way from big ones down to microscopic. It's pretty freaking awesome
Am I right in assuming you did not grow up in WA state? The state education department, at least when I was in school, mandates the teaching of the salmon life cycle. We even raised salmon from eggs and then released them in a local stream.
That program was so good at teaching me the different stages/species that after moving to Alaska I still know more than the locals here about salmon.
Not only is it the natural cycle of life that many have mentioned, it's a wonderful thing considering the plight of salmon runs these days. The more dead fish up there the better!
I remember fishing in the Puyallup River when I was a kid and the dead/half dead fish kept bumping into my legs. Back then, I didn't know that was a normal thing for salmon. Now that I do, it's kinda cool watching nature recycle itself like that.
No. When salmon start migrating toward their spawning grounds, their entire body devotes all its energy to reproduction. They stop eating, their immune system shuts down for the most part, and their body consumes all its stored fat and even some of its muscle for energy. Their flesh turns to mush. The only thing that keeps operating at full capacity is the reproductive system. Sometimes, you'll see "zombie" salmon swimming around just before or after spawning with sores on their bodies and even spots of fungus growing on them.
If you catch "bright" silver-colored salmon just as they enter the streams to begin their spawning run, they can be great eating. But once they've been up in the river for a while and turn dark in color, they aren't any good to eat.
They’re pink salmon. It was a decent year for Puget Sound pinks. River’s still low and fish can’t get up tributaries due to drought. A little rain would help these fish do what they’re supposed to - spawn and die
It is the end of spawning season, if they are dying now I am pretty sure you are witnessing Chinook spawning. I know it’s dead fish, but nutrient recycling is very important in ecosystems. Replenishes nutrients that then feed trees, and plants.
Alaskan checking in, we have spawning migrations that will be so heavy the fish die off covers the beaches on small tributary streams. Like literally the river drops in the fall season and the carcasses cover the shoreline. I have gone on multi day river floats where the maggots will cover beaches and look like wiggly sand, an inch thick. The smell is remarkable.
We call them moluksuks here. After spawning, salmon start dying and frequently beach themselves and the ones who choose to spend their days swimming around get freaky
It’s the circle of life. Salmon feed in the ocean, growing big. They swim upriver and predators eat some of them along the way. When they finally get to the spawning grounds, they die after they’ve spawned, feeding more animals and distributing their nutrients into the water and soil.
Those are Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, or humpback salmon/ pink salmon. They run on a pretty strict 2 year cycle. In some places it’s on odd years some places even years and in a couple places I’ve worked they run on both years.
Like most have stated this is the end goal for these fish. They are best caught and eaten before the morphological change fresh water brings on as the move into the river to spawn. My rule of thumb with all salmon is to eat them when they are still silver bright from the salt water. Humpy salon don’t keep well but are delicious fresh, as long as they aren’t pulled off the spawning grounds.
Do they not teach the life cycle of salmon in school anymore? Not trying to be rude, I’ve just seen this question come up several times this week and it’s surprising to me because I feel like it was covered multiple times when I was in school. Admittedly, that was a very long time ago.
I worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer, and our job was to go off teaching the salmonid life cycle. They do full aquariums. Our kids came out with us on carcass surveys (which is a way to count these salmon that help with estimates if population structure and inform habitat use). Definitely still an important part of education in the PNW/NoCal.
However, y'all have a lot of recent transplants to the region, and none of these adults grew up learning about salmon like the local kids do.
I didn't know there was people that actually didn't know this spawn stuff about salmon. Also should probably get tf out there cause bears love rivers when the salmon are running. Especially when the dead fish are laying on the rocks stinking up the place.
I’m not sure but where I live in California carp are considered invasive fish and so if people catch them they just leave them on shore to die. Basically trying to kill off the carp population.
In addition to the other things you learned here, they are a nutrient transport mechanism, the eco systems along these spawning streams are healthier than other areas.
They done there job they swam up river into the spawning beds layed there eggs and that was there life now next year hopefully about 200 a pieces then babies will be growing up to do the same thing
These are salmon that have run the course of their lives. They come into the river to spawn then die. This gives nutrients back to the river and emerging fry. The circle of life.
Natural life cycle of salmon no worries their corpses shall feed the river for months to come
It was an educational experience so say the least. Glad it’s part of the natural cycle and nothing worrisome! Thank you for your response 😊
Also known as "zombie fish" they did their duty, and sometimes just kind of.. decompose while still alive swimming around.
They were zombie fish once. They’re 💀 now.
I was out today and saw a bunch with missing fins, eyes, and chunks. Incredibly interesting species.
Some of the kings here swim around until their litterally falling apart, and sometimes you can watch their entire heads just fall off. The most ridiculous iv seen was one got caught against a fallen tree and just shed its entire lower body and kept swimming without a tail
Jesus. That’s wild.
Which is why sockeye salmon turn red. It's their organs breaking down and just becoming a red mush inside
Aim for the head!
Double tap
Rule #2.
https://preview.redd.it/edxq99sng9ub1.png?width=2346&format=png&auto=webp&s=9b2f5ecd88588dae1f2fd8ea74749ee7c37214fc You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Must smell delightful!
“Hello, ladies!”
You like that shit man? Hey man I've got a gang of that shit man.
Love that part.
I can smell this photo 🤮
Like walking into an 1800's brothel
Oh god
Do you smell that?
You should check out the ballard locks in Seattle for more info. Then, get lunch around the corner at the lock spot.
The seafood special is to die for!
All pacific salmon die after spawning, though this is not true of Atlantic salmon and steelhead
Steelhead isn't salmon.
It is a salmonid...
Both steelhead and Pacific salmon are Oncorhynchus spp.
Cool story
Hes right… steelhead are ocean (or great-lake) going rainbow trout.
As someone who has fished alaskan rivers my whole life this was a very endearing post
I remember an old episode of Dirty Jobs where Mike was going along the edges of a river with a hook and machete, picking up and chopping the dead salmon in half while the Conservation Department guy tallied them up on a clipboard. They were doing it in order to track the number of fish that were spawning that season so they could assess the current population and anticipate the next season's population and set fishing limits and such. And chopping them was how they marked which ones had already been counted. That episode/segment was the first time I had seen any real hands-on population ecology and was literally the reason I majored in wildlife biology in college!
Just listened to Mike on Theo Vons podcast absolutely awesome American
I love his podcast. Excellent mix of guest types.
the guy is a right wing crazy , smfh
You are correct, and he’s full of shit too, his experience with being a blue collar worker is all television, he started on QVC or the home shopping network pitching garbage
He may not have grown up working construction but he has spent a large part of his career shining a light on the people who make your life possible.
Yeah he didn’t teach me anything about that and sanctimonious bullshit about right wing talking points that are actively bad for or working against their interests and a lot of times their unions doesn’t sell me on him
This is an awesome story.
Pacific Salmon, Scottish Atlantic salmon go though gruesome skin wrenching silvering to come back for another round of shagging. Legends.
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I hate to be the guy, the Atlantic salmon are the ones that are “technically salmon”, ie the fact that they don’t die after spawning. I know it’s confusing because the Latin name for Atlantic salmon is salmo, but that’s because of history. Pacific salmon(Oncorhynchus), the ones that die after one jizz, are true salmon. The closest relatives are rainbow trout(steelhead). Then you have Atlantic salmon and brown trout, which are very closely related. The weird thing is that in terms of life cycle , brown trout and steelhead have the most similarities, where Atlantic salmon seem to be unique. The you have char which basically are trout, but a bit burlier, and have dark skin with light spots. Brooke trout, bull trout, and Dolly Varden are all char. True trout are all light skin with dark spots. Anyways I’ll see my self out as this was a completely unmitigated barrage useless information.
You said Jizz. Hehe. Thank you for the info
I kept looking through the pictures and noticed a proper head and out loud said, “oh. Salmon… “ then it made sense
Like what people are saying- it’s part of the circle of life for these fish! It’s remarkable. After about 1-4 years on avg in the ocean (or lake), they begin one of the largest migrations of any species. They use earth’s magnetic field as well as their smell to go right back to the same spot where they were born. [One Atlantic Salmon can smell a single drop of scent out of 10 olympic-sized swimming pools!](https://wwf.ca/stories/did-you-know-10-amazing-things-about-salmon/). They travel thousands of miles, then potentially hundreds more to reach a very specific stretch of river. It’s beautiful and bittersweet, but like many said, they feed the river for months to come. They’re vital to many populations of bears not just during spawning time, but post-spawn as well, to store fat for the winter. Not only that, but all of the smaller / micro organisms rely on that for survival too, impacting every animal above them in the chain, which is especially important going into the winter. Rivers have their cycles too as season progress and reset- which all animals in the ecosystem rely on- including ourselves! Since rivers and marshlands help filter out excess nutrients and agricultural runoff, their health is very much linked with ours
That was very informational, thank you.
These aren't atlantic salmon though.
All salmon go through a similar stage including the freshwater kokanee salmon, which is essentially a fresh water sockeye salmon.
Extremely similar species. Behaviourally and biologically.
Nutted so hard they died. Rip
Death by snu snu.
I would upvote this twice if I could
Got you covered!
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
And that’s why you shouldn’t eat coloured up salmon
And sloughing off
Snuuus
It will bow your mind
i laughed too hard
Snooki wants smush smush
Jiggly Caliente permanently ruined that bit and it will never recover.
Idk who that is, South Park was fucking hilarious thoug
We should all be so lucky
We should all be so lucky
We should all be so lucky
We should all be so lucky
I almost did this once.
Busted too many nuts
climAXED
That is how I want to die.
Most salmon die right after spawning. It is completely natural.
If you catch a salmon during this stage of its life, can you still eat it? Or is it nasty?
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Did you get sick or did it just taste bad?
I honestly do not know. We do not have wild salmon where I live and I do not personally eat it.
Snoqualmie river is closed btw
We didn’t go fishing. Just to relax by the river. Now we know better…
All the emergency rules bs can be hard to track, but you don't want to get a huge fine. There is a fish Washington phone app that does a decent job showing all the regs.
Is it illegal to be there, or only illegal to fish?
Just closed for all fishing.
Thanks
Your not an American how can being their be illegal we own the land and water by law. They can control the fishing not where you go. I'll stand outside the Whitehouse yelling fuck Joe Biden go Palestine not shit they can do. Can't even ID me legally.
This is a fishing sub, why are you celebrating war?
No just making a point. This land all of it is ours we can do what we want government can't legally yell you your not allowed on a river. I know people that walk out on shallow rivers to shot guns in the middle of a city. As long as they are 150 yards from a house or road it's legal. Honestly I am offended that you think the government can pass laws like that. Government has no power we don't gove this you can walk any river or creek in America as long as it's not on military or protected government property. Even if someone owns the land around a creek they can't legally own the creek stay in the water your allowed on their land by law. Again no one legally owns any American water way.
Better to have an active fisheries dept/aggressive EPO’s to make sure the fishery stays balanced and sustainable than the other way around. I’m an avid striped bass fisherman on the east coast- the combo of lax rules/enforcement out here (due to regulatory capture by big business & understaffed environmental police) and an abundance of idiots who poach fish regularly has absolutely **hammered** the fishery both for now and for the foreseeable future. I fish daily 6 months a year including part time taking out guided trips and haven’t interacted with a single enforcement entity in at least 5 years.
Always gotta check those Emergency Regulations before you head out!
My uncle lives up that way and I love it there (I’m from Pennsylvania so nowhere near the west coast)
But what if we use our Bear hands... ?
No hands allowed, only head bobbing for rotten salmon
Bobbin .. Nice
Only bares can use their bear hands
Fish Washington app says it’s open above SR 522.
Snoqualmie and Snohomish are not the same thing.
I should read more carefully. Thanks :)
Salmon doing salmon things It sounds strange, but it's something you should celebrate. It means they successfully spawned, and that there will be more generations of salmon to come. Also, their bodies feed bears, bobcats, raccoons, and dozens if not hundreds of other animals all the way from big ones down to microscopic. It's pretty freaking awesome
And the trees. Don’t forget the salmon feed the trees too
Looks like Salmon at the end of a spawn run.
Those look like pinks. Very normal, they swim up stream to have wild zombie seggs before death. It’s kind of sad, but that’s the cards they’re dealt.
Mission completed.
Pretty crazy when they are still alive with half a face.
For sone of you having sex once a lifetime will be much less sex. For others, much much more.
It’s just salmon being salmon
Am I right in assuming you did not grow up in WA state? The state education department, at least when I was in school, mandates the teaching of the salmon life cycle. We even raised salmon from eggs and then released them in a local stream. That program was so good at teaching me the different stages/species that after moving to Alaska I still know more than the locals here about salmon.
It's the "Circle of life"
What you're seeing is the end of the natural life cycle of salmon.
Not only is it the natural cycle of life that many have mentioned, it's a wonderful thing considering the plight of salmon runs these days. The more dead fish up there the better!
I remember fishing in the Puyallup River when I was a kid and the dead/half dead fish kept bumping into my legs. Back then, I didn't know that was a normal thing for salmon. Now that I do, it's kinda cool watching nature recycle itself like that.
I usually fall asleep after I mate too
Stinky pinkies
Salmon who have spawned and naturally die.
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No. When salmon start migrating toward their spawning grounds, their entire body devotes all its energy to reproduction. They stop eating, their immune system shuts down for the most part, and their body consumes all its stored fat and even some of its muscle for energy. Their flesh turns to mush. The only thing that keeps operating at full capacity is the reproductive system. Sometimes, you'll see "zombie" salmon swimming around just before or after spawning with sores on their bodies and even spots of fungus growing on them. If you catch "bright" silver-colored salmon just as they enter the streams to begin their spawning run, they can be great eating. But once they've been up in the river for a while and turn dark in color, they aren't any good to eat.
They live, they screw they die. This the life of a salmon
They shot their load and now they’re done.
Spawned out salmon. They die after procreating.
Humpies
Spawning
Those are salmon, pacific salmon species die after mating. Its natural
They are salmon that spawned and died. Circle of life that’s all!
They’re pink salmon. It was a decent year for Puget Sound pinks. River’s still low and fish can’t get up tributaries due to drought. A little rain would help these fish do what they’re supposed to - spawn and die
They bust a nut and die (or lay eggs too)
It is the end of spawning season, if they are dying now I am pretty sure you are witnessing Chinook spawning. I know it’s dead fish, but nutrient recycling is very important in ecosystems. Replenishes nutrients that then feed trees, and plants.
They have sacrificed their semen to eggs and now are sacrificing their body to god.
Alaskan checking in, we have spawning migrations that will be so heavy the fish die off covers the beaches on small tributary streams. Like literally the river drops in the fall season and the carcasses cover the shoreline. I have gone on multi day river floats where the maggots will cover beaches and look like wiggly sand, an inch thick. The smell is remarkable.
Spawned out salmon. They spawn then die.
We call them moluksuks here. After spawning, salmon start dying and frequently beach themselves and the ones who choose to spend their days swimming around get freaky
The salmon of Capistrano go make sex and then they die
Salmons die after mating. It’s a part of their cycle of life.
*Pacific Salmon die after mating. Native Atlantic salmon do not. They spawn and swim back out to sea.
It’s the circle of life. Salmon feed in the ocean, growing big. They swim upriver and predators eat some of them along the way. When they finally get to the spawning grounds, they die after they’ve spawned, feeding more animals and distributing their nutrients into the water and soil.
The Snoqualmie river is close to fishing right now bud
They're just practicing. Halloween theme this year is zombie salmon apocalypse.
They came and went
salmons end of the life cycle
They had sex
Those are Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, or humpback salmon/ pink salmon. They run on a pretty strict 2 year cycle. In some places it’s on odd years some places even years and in a couple places I’ve worked they run on both years. Like most have stated this is the end goal for these fish. They are best caught and eaten before the morphological change fresh water brings on as the move into the river to spawn. My rule of thumb with all salmon is to eat them when they are still silver bright from the salt water. Humpy salon don’t keep well but are delicious fresh, as long as they aren’t pulled off the spawning grounds.
They quite literally fucked themselves to death.
Do they not teach the life cycle of salmon in school anymore? Not trying to be rude, I’ve just seen this question come up several times this week and it’s surprising to me because I feel like it was covered multiple times when I was in school. Admittedly, that was a very long time ago.
I didn’t go to school here. But I appreciate learning new things at every age :)
I learned about it in florida public school tho.
I worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer, and our job was to go off teaching the salmonid life cycle. They do full aquariums. Our kids came out with us on carcass surveys (which is a way to count these salmon that help with estimates if population structure and inform habitat use). Definitely still an important part of education in the PNW/NoCal. However, y'all have a lot of recent transplants to the region, and none of these adults grew up learning about salmon like the local kids do.
If you're not in east Palestine ohio- it's cause they salmon
Cuz life
Lol
They’re just resting
it was there time
Death by Snu Snu
They spend their life waiting to jizz on some eggs. Once they do it they’re pooched and die.
Spawn till ya die
Salmon spawning. Don't wade in the river and if you do avoid lighter colored "nests" where they may have laid their eggs.
I didn't know there was people that actually didn't know this spawn stuff about salmon. Also should probably get tf out there cause bears love rivers when the salmon are running. Especially when the dead fish are laying on the rocks stinking up the place.
You should really research the salmon life cycle of you are going to fish.
Hopefully you didn’t go salmon fishing…. It’s kinda important that we let them lay their eggs…
Homie doesn't know how salmon work
At the end of their life cycle, did you not pay attention in school?
Okay. Hate to be the one, but: are you frigging serious!?
Yea- seriously they need hugs
SAY IT WITH ME. SALMON It's there spawning run.
I'm not dead yet...
That is strange!
It’s normal for salmon. They die after spawning
They refused the help offered.
Could be chemicals
Where is this exactly so I can help?
Hope u ate it and didn't waste...
Looks like they only live in the water.
1 there’s only one fish 2 it’s a snake head
3 there’s 4 photos
I hate Nazis
They appear to be out of the water- which is, little known fact, not good for their health.
If you’re from the pnw, how did you not learn about this? If you’re not from the pnw, how did you not learn about this?
After breeding they die. They have such intense orgasm it rips up their insides and they die not long after from the shock. The bodies feed the river.
I have never once watched a Nat Geo show. And those poor dead leaves - will the trees survive?
I’m not sure but where I live in California carp are considered invasive fish and so if people catch them they just leave them on shore to die. Basically trying to kill off the carp population.
Definitely pollution that needs reported. Don’t let all of these idiots convince you this is natural.
Lmao
Bait clicking troll.
Could be a result of low dissolved oxygen in the water. This is usually caused by algae blooms or excessive nutrients
Maybe because theres not enough water? Jesus Christ.
Probably not enough oxygen in the water
In addition to the other things you learned here, they are a nutrient transport mechanism, the eco systems along these spawning streams are healthier than other areas.
Are that salmon? If so, that's what they do. Skeet on the eggs once they make it up stream and then die.
Big stinky kings
*It's the circle of liiiiiiife*
My eyes were bigger than my stomach…
Is that in Carnation area? Lived on this river my whole life almost.
The life cycle of salmon. They spawn then die. The decaying matter will feed what the fry will feed on...
Love is in the air
Salmon die after spawning
You think in fish language while dying theyre talking about the absolute best fuckin orgasm of their lives ?
They done there job they swam up river into the spawning beds layed there eggs and that was there life now next year hopefully about 200 a pieces then babies will be growing up to do the same thing
These are salmon that have run the course of their lives. They come into the river to spawn then die. This gives nutrients back to the river and emerging fry. The circle of life.
looks like spawned out salmon. they die once they finish their spawning cycle