Salute To Canadian Scientists
Canadians have been contributing to the field of science for decades and Blog MyyyyyAsssss now salutes one of them:
Read the full article over at Science.ca then click on "scientists" to investigate even more Canadian scientists.
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Standing on a thin ledge of rock, just below Hell's Gate Falls on the Fraser River, William Ricker dips his net into the eddy at his feet. He brings up a six pound sockeye salmon for tagging. This one is fresh and strong, not like the tired ones who are having trouble with the rapids. Again and again the weak ones find their way into his net. From a pocket, Ricker pulls out two little red and white metal disks and a 5 cm pin. He wipes his brow and waves to his partner who is also tagging fish a few metres away. The sun is hot. A steady hot wind blows up the narrow canyon. There is no road down to where they are, only a steep trail.
Ricker is 30. It is the summer of 1938, the first time he has worked on the big river and he's enjoying himself. It's also the first year of the Canadian Salmon Commission's study of Fraser sockeye. At the time nobody really knew how or why salmon returned after years in the sea to mate and lay eggs in the very same creek where they were born. |
Read the full article over at Science.ca then click on "scientists" to investigate even more Canadian scientists.