chinook migration

In mid to late August each year the chinook pass through Kwanlin (Whitehorse) on the return to their natal streams.

Here, the chinook have to bypass the Whitehorse Rapids Hydro Electric Dam.  This part of the migration takes the salmon through the longest wooden fish-ladder in the world. 
Built in 1959, this fish-ladder is only one section of the long journey the chinook make between the Bering Sea to any one of the many tributaries of the Yukon River in order to spawn.

The chinook travelling the Yukon River have the longest freshwater migration route of any salmon.
In 2009 a public art installation commemorating the 50th anniversary of the building of the Whitehorse Rapids Fishway celebrated the chinook; these
submissions are from Yukon schoolchildren...

 ...from the general public...

...from me.

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