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Drumming the Salmon to Spawn

Monday, September 17, 2012 7:30

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In January of 1994, John Beal, a Vietnam veteran who dedicated his post-war life to restoring salmon habitat, enlisted the aid of a Choctaw elder to conduct a ceremony to call the salmon from the ocean to spawn in Hamm Creek, a tributary of the Duwamish River near Seattle, WA. Beal had spent twelve years restoring Hamm Creek, but few salmon had returned to the once-thriving spawning ground. Beginning at the mouth of the Duwamish River and moving upstream, the Choctaw elder used a drum to draw the salmon upriver to spawn. When asked why the fish come to the drum, the elder said that drum beats sound like the slap of the female salmon’s tail as she scrapes out a shallow gravel nest. Read more.

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