Reflection for week 1 project
I learned many things this week. I have learned stuff like The Salmon Life Cycle and their contibutions to the Yakama Watershed. i havent learned much about it, just that the salmon start out as little red eggs then they are born and something called Alven. After that its something called Juenille, then they travle to the Pacific Ocean for a long distence and grow up there in the ocean. Then they fish will take their long journey back to their homeland in the Columbia River.
On the travel back from the ocean, the Salmon have a lot of touble getting the their spawning grounds. There are many reasons that the Salmon have a lot of trouble getting there. 1 of the reasons that they have trouble is because of over-fishing. Many fishermen have had over-fished in the Columbia River, and taken way to many salmon. Another reason the Salmon have trouble is because of mining, and another reason is because of forestry. Trees have gone into The Columbia River and crushed, smashed, and killed the salmon! The main reason they have had trouble is because of Dams!
Now the dams are good actually great becuase we use them. The dams have Hydropowered Generators that do not polute our air in any way but the Salmon are having trouble getting through them. We need our Dams for power but a lot of fish die going through them because they cant find their way and get lost and starve. some make it through but not all... note: all these salmon going through the dams and dieng are trying to get to their spawning grounds to lay their eggs.