Spawning Salmon~ In the Ditch?

A few days ago the river down the hill from us was just about to flooding levels. The ditches alongside the road were filling up with water and were full of spawning salmon! The poor fish thought they were swimming upstream when actually they were swimming up a hill to a dead end ditch. Many of them were flopping up and out of the water all together~ I won't show the incriminating photos of some very helpful children who caught them and redirected them back to the river. At one point, said children were yelled at by a passing vehicle for tampering with the poor protected things. I guess in WA state it is illegal to interfere even if the fish are doomed. Gotta love it!










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