Pink Salmon Ocean Phase Socks
Description: It is a member of the salmonoid family. The farthest inland sockeye salmon travel to spawn is to Redfish Lake, Idaho, over 1,400 km (900 mi) from the ocean and 2,000 m (6,500 ft) in elevation. In the United States, populations of sockeye salmon have been extirpated from Idaho and Oregon.
Description: This work in about the cycle of life that occurs after the salmon spawn each year. The reference image I used was taken by myself in Squamish BC at the Stawamis River that flows at the foot of the Stawamis Chief Mountain. Although beautiful and tragic, salmon returning to the river beds of their birth to leave their own off spring which is followed by their own deaths, it is a symbol of the sacrifice they make to health of the forest and its other creatures. Their long journey home that is rife with struggle and dangerous difficulties, yet, as they exit the world they give their nutrients to the forest floor and to the river itself, as well as bears, carrion birds and other scavengers that feed off of their carcasses. Nothing embodies th
Description: It is a member of the salmonoid family. The freshwater form of the steelhead trout is the rainbow trout. The difference between these forms of the species is that steelhead migrate to the ocean and return to freshwater tributaries to spawn, whereas rainbow trout do not leave freshwater. In the Pacific Northwest it is considered part of the local salmon family.
