Seeking Salmon

On "EarthFix" we're doing a lot of environmental news coverage on salmon issues around the Pacific Northwest from river restoration projects to dam removals to federal policy updates. We've created this space to share ~other~ kinds of salmon content. We want to see your photos, recipes, jokes, stories and whatever else interesting, fun and wacky you've come up with. We'll post the best stuff submitted and others we've "Tumbled" upon. Send submissions by clicking the pencil above or send them to "Toni at EarthFix".

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Idaho Salmon, a documentary by EarthFix's Aaron Kunz will be playing all day at the Sawtooth Interpretive and Historic Association museum. Check it out if you're headed up to Stanley for the festival!

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Uh oh.

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36th Annual Powell St Festival (kayla_iso)

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Funny signage. Some hungry kitties!

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Shawn came back from a week-long bucket list Alaska fishing trip…with one hundred pounds of salmon, halibut, rock fish and black cod.

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That's a freezer-ful of fish!

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Sockeye salmon move up the Russian River to spawn.

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#hyfr #salmon #fishing (Taken with Instagram)

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How the life cycle of salmon is affected by climate change.

Graphic by Vanessa Dennis/NewsHour

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#baby #salmon with #yolk sacks (Taken with Instagram at Bonneville Lock & Dam)

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Baby salmon.

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The Swinomish tribe of Washington has depended on salmon for generations. But five populations of Pacific salmon are already on the brink of extinction and changes in the climate stand to make matters worse.

Together with the PBS NewsHour and KCTS 9, EarthFix recently visited the Swinomish Indian reservation to learn how they are preparing.

More on this story including photos, maps and graphics at EarthFix.

Produced by Katie Campbell and Saskia de Melker Videography by Michael Werner, Katie Campbell and Saskia de Melker

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Salmon rubber stamp from oldislandstamps on Etsy.

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Vintage heavy metal bottle top opener in the shape of a fish. From NollysVintage at Etsy.

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Camp Food

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Pretty fine looking meal for camping!

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Nice looking Salmon! 

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A big catch!

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fresh smoked salmon from dads fishing trip in Alaska #smoked #salmon #tasty #alaska (Taken with Instagram)

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Rick Halford is a “manifest destiny” kind of Alaskan. He cleared his land with dynamite. He calls himself the “ideal redneck Republican”. As a longtime leader in the state legislature, he never met a hard-rock mine he didn’t like.

That is, until he took a long look at the proposed Pebble Mine in south-west Alaska. It is a phenomenal prospect, the biggest and richest in North America. But to dig a mine there is to make a Faustian bargain that involves an agonizing Alaskan twist.

In return for copper and gold worth an estimated $500bn (£320bn), state and federal regulators risk poisoning what scientists describe as the last best place on earth for millions of wild salmon.

Read more @ Ripples from Pebble felt far from Alaska | Environment

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The Pebble Mine in Alaska is causing even an "ideal redneck Republican" like legislator Rick Halford to come out against it.