Salmon

I was watching a video clip about Alaskan salmon and its migration patterns. Sadly every year there comes a time when these waist high fish have to go up stream and pass on its genes to their younglings. Every salmon, both male and female die after spawning because it is their way of life. To think about that makes me appreciate my parents and life a bit more.

As the video goes on. There was a part where hundreds of these silver salmons taking a wrong turn into a little swampy pond killing them all as the shore captures them. It didn't stop here, even more of these salmons follow and trying very hard whipping their tail to swim over these dead salmons.

The life cylce of a salmon seems so simple. They grow up and swim into the ocean and come back to spawn and give life to younglings and then die. Every salmon's fate comes right after a pool of orgasm but to watch hundreds of these salmon taking a wrong turn towards death without even spawning is just sad.

Unlike other fishes, to die after spawning is very odd and sad. The video that I watched portrayed the unlikely to happen, but what did happen was nature taking its course. Overall salmon fish have a simple life and death and no matter which salmon it is, they are all going to proceed through the same life cycle.