Beaver vs salmon
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- When it rains hard in the fall, the water in small creeks in British Columbia rises and the coho start to move in from the main river. A few strategic cracks in beaver dams and they line up trying to get over. As high water also means poor fishing, it is time to try to get some footage of the battle between beavers and salmon. These scenes were from three different beaver dams on two creeks, each time late in the day in the fading light.
Sweet footage.
Since they coevolved I think the struggle is built into the balance of the coexistence. Beavers built the water retention and spawning habitat into the watersheds. Without them, we have incised streams that heat up dry out quick with minimal spawning habitat. Salmon bring in the ocean nutrients that fertilize the beaver wetlands.
The current beaver / salmon condition is severely weakened from beaver eradication, logging, and heavy fishing.
We need to support both species back to strength!
Yes!
I saw another video where the salmon gathered and banged away at the dam until they made a whole. I'm guessing that because so much of it is mud and plant material with the larger sticks that they were able to make a difference by crashing into it. There was no underwater footage in that video.
nice footage, title a bit misleading, as beaver really help coho. Beaver provide great habitat for rearing coho, as you probably know. Also, are these hatchery fish, or do you know? They seem kind of anemic relative to coho and sockeye that I have watched energetically cross similar beaver dams. Consider changing title to; Beaver teaching salmon to jump.
Yes, the title is "tongue in cheek" as beavers are good for juvenile coho - which is why natural selection has led to the evolution of this behavior in coho! The fish themselves are presumably wild - the issue is that the water from which they jump is shallow.
Running the age old gauntlet... They say it was the beaver that taught the salmon to jump
Great line indeed!
Salmon and beaver have been working this out for 30 million years and it is a synergistic relationship.. The best thing we can do is stay out of the way and leave them to it.
Yup
Nice video
Beavers salmon existed for centuries before the human destruction of their shared habitats. It is great to see the work you are doing in the States to bring back the beaver which in turn is helping the salmon population again. working with nature as opposed to against it
Salmon and Beaver have co-existed since time immemorial. "Swim, Leap and Wriggle......Spawn to survive another day!
Beautiful view
Gotta love the instrumental MetallicA cover and then actual MetallicA 🤘💀🤘
Definitely!
Great footage good quality
Only the strongest and most fit salmon can make it past to breed. That is what nature intended.
Great video, the determination of these fish blows the mind. The will/instict to survive and propagate of the animal species is amazing. Even human helping hands i cannot be viewed as a bad thing.
Love is video...an the background music...
Beautiful view