Rain in Northern California (finally)

[JakeP]

Weir is definitely used here, but more often in the context of a structure used to alter riverflow in order to catch prey, such as migrating fish or eels. These were in common use by Native Americans, and quite a few are still in existence today. They are especially useful for funneling and trapping animals during their spawning runs. Eels are like Salmon but the opposite: they live in streams for years or decades, and then head out to sea to spawn. The young then swim back to the coast, and up into the streams. Dams and overharvest of the young eels (elvers) for raising in Chinese sushi farms pose serious difficulties on their return trip, and are endangering the American eel.

Here is an image of an eel weir on the Delaware River...this is catching adult eels as they head out to sea to spawn, in the middle of the Atlantic, in the Sargasso Sea:

Lovely Salmon though Bonnie, glad you helped see its long journey to a successful end!

 

[Canuck]

Batten down the hatches Bonnie!:

 

[casey.kruitmoes]

Here comes the Storm

 

[JPP]

bonnie...hanging in there? Any salmon in your pool yet?

 

[cpa]

As long as we are dusting off our vocabularies, salmon, steelhead and other fish that are spawned in freshwater to migrate to the sea only to return to their breeding grounds after some years are "anadromous."

Steelhead have the ability to spawn and return to the sea, unlike their salmon cousins. And, once upon a time before we screwed everything up, the Mighty Los Angeles River used to have migrating steelhead every year.

 

[bonnie]

bonnie...hanging in there? Any salmon in your pool yet?

Rain is falling, wind is blowing, everything is flowing (and over flowing) -- but no salmon last time I checked. I lost power for a good part of today - but the fireplace worked as well as always. Has been a beautiful day.

 

[mspohr]

Thought you might enjoy this:

 

[Bugeater]

Bonnie. Drat. I WAS able to go to work this morning...

 

[Canuck]

Rain is falling, wind is blowing, everything is flowing (and over flowing) -- but no salmon last time I checked. I lost power for a good part of today - but the fireplace worked as well as always. Has been a beautiful day.

Good to hear from you. I thought you might have drown or something...

 

[bonnie]

Good to hear from you. I thought you might have drown or something...

No worries re me drowning. All Minnesota kids are taught to swim before they are taught to walk. (And then taught to play hockey when they still need the stick to stand up. Hence, 'the tripod league'.)

 

[Canuck]

No worries re me drowning. All Minnesota kids are taught to swim before they are taught to walk. (And then taught to play hockey when they still need the stick to stand up. Hence, 'the tripod league'.)

Are you sure you're not Canadian?

 

[palmer_md]

Are you sure you're not Canadian?

I thought Minnesota was part of Canada. It no doubt, sounds to me like I'm in Canada when I'm out and about in Minnesota.