From the Province Newspaper today.
The fate of a wild salmon run on the Seymour River hangs on a giant rock the size of a bus.
The rock is barring the way to spawning grounds for 40,000 coho — the biggest wild run of its kind on the North Shore.
A summer of rock-blasting costing $300,000 failed to dislodge the monster, leaving fish rescuers at the Seymour Salmonid Society in a quandary: Do they move it — or leave it in place and hope a passage can be cleared for the fish on either side?
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http://www.theprovince.com/news/loc...s+between+rock+hard+place/12631554/story.html
The fate of a wild salmon run on the Seymour River hangs on a giant rock the size of a bus.
The rock is barring the way to spawning grounds for 40,000 coho — the biggest wild run of its kind on the North Shore.
A summer of rock-blasting costing $300,000 failed to dislodge the monster, leaving fish rescuers at the Seymour Salmonid Society in a quandary: Do they move it — or leave it in place and hope a passage can be cleared for the fish on either side?
Read more...
http://www.theprovince.com/news/loc...s+between+rock+hard+place/12631554/story.html