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An unlucky salmon gets eaten.

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Sea Lions and Salmon

Sea lions have been trying to eat all the salmon as they try to get over Bonneville Dam. Forty sea lions in the past year have eaten 1,100 salmon out of 26,346. At first, people tried to get them away by using firecrackers, rubber bullets, and other noisemakers. We also tried installing barriers and making them lose their sense of direction. The barriers and the other things didn’t do much, so people decided that they had to resort to killing the sea lions. The Government gave the wildlife agencies of Oregon and Washington permission to kill eighty-five sea lions a year. People have also observed the sea lions killing the salmon and those people say that the sea lions are using some of the most brutal harassments observed. So please, help us try and protect the salmon.

By Olivia Andersen

Sea Lion pictures byIsaac Baker and Liam Bendicksen

By Daniel Gotkowitz

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How Salmon Learned to Migrate: The Story Of Muki

Once upon a time the first salmon hatched from her egg in a small stream. Her name was Muki. She lived a happy life in the small stream. One day she told herself, “I am never going to leave my happy home.” But one night, when Muki was sound asleep, she heard someone or something saying her name in an echo like voice. “Muki”, said the voice.She instantly swam to the surface and cried, “ What’s going on here, who’s talking to me?”“It is I Muki, The Spirit of the Salmon. I created you and sent you down to this stream. I used magic to make you think your name was Muki. But you are in danger here. Humans are coming, bears are coming, eagles are coming. You must go to the ocean where you will be safe.” “But I like it here”, Muki said, “I don’t want to go besides you said there is danger there and the ocean is so far I will never get there and I will not like it.”

“Go to the ocean, go to the ocean, go to the ocean,” said the spirit as it disappeared in to the sky. Muki thought about what the spirit had said. Finally she decided to be brave and go to the ocean. She traveled for weeks. She dodged bears, she missed eagles, she battled humans. At last, she reached the ocean and swam free. One night when Muki’s magic had made her a beautiful red color. She heard a familiar voice calling her name. “Muki,” the voice said. She knew who this was.

“It’s you!” she exclaimed as the spirit appeared in the sky. “Yes, Muki,” the spirit said. I followed you on your journey here

and protected you but now you must return to your stream. It is too dangerous to lay eggs here. The spirit disappeared. But Muki was confident because she knew the spirit would protect her. But she wondered how she would find her way home. She sniffed the air. “I think home is this way,” she said. Again, she fought her way upstream, battling for her children.

Meanwhile, the spirit had used the same magic to make another salmon. But this salmon was a boy and an adult. His name was Koka. Koka was full of magic liquid that would make Muki’s eggs hatch. The spirit sent Koka to the stream to wait for Muki. At last Muki arrived at the stream and saw Koka. She found a good spot and dug a hole in the stones and got in. Then Koka swam in beside her. Muki released her eggs into the hole. Koka let out some misty white spray onto the eggs. They swam out and Muki covered the eggs in stones. As Muki and Koka drifted away, Muki told her children of the journey they will make,and their children will do the same. The salmon’s journey will keep going on and on forever and ever and ever.

By Macey Ferron-Jones.

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King salmon picture byLiam Bendicksen and Isaac Baker

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Book ReviewsThe Salmon Stream

The Salmon Stream is a book about the salmon life cycle. First comes the egg, from which comes an alevin. Then the salmon becomes a fry. Then they become smolt and swim to the ocean where they become adults. Then the salmon return to where they were born to lay eggs. Then they die.

I would recommend this book to people who like poetry and salmon. This book is a work of art.

The Salmon Princess

The Salmon Princess is a book about a girl a lot like the one in Cinderella but an Eagle is the fairy godmother in this book. She wins silver and lives happily ever after.

I would recommend this book to people who like princesses or fairytales.

Come Back Salmon

Come Back Salmon is about a group of kids who brought a dying creek that held salmon back to life.

I would recommend this book to someone who wants to learn how to keep a creek clean.

Red Tag Comes Back

Red Tag Comes Back is a book about a Salmon fry who a trapper wanted to learn more about. He caught it and put a tag on it and then set the salmon fry free. The book also tells about the salmon’s life cycle.

I’d recommend this book to people who want to learn about the salmon life cycle.

By Peter Bloch and Ben Karp.

By Josh Rossi

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Salmon’s Life

The life of this salmon was stealthy. The salmon was swimming to the ocean.The water was clear and cold.Then, it was at the ocean.The salmon spent many months feasting on other smaller fish in the ocean,But then, it was time to go to its creek.The salmon was starting to turn redder as it got closer to the home stream.Its’ humped back turned completely red.As it reached the damp autumn, forest creekfungi grew rapidly on the salmon.After a week, it released the eggs, the salmon died,Fungi had taken over her body and new salmon were hatched.

By Aditya D. Sivakumar

Q &A with Onco the Chinook Salmon

Journalist: Are you a big species of salmon?Onco: Yes, we’re the biggest of all.

Journalist: What kind of groups do you spawn in?Onco: We spawn in small groups.

Journalist: Do us humans affect you at all?Onco: Yes! Your kind pollutes the streams and rivers. It isn’t fun or healthy to swim in dirty water.

Journalist: Where do you spawn?Onco: We spawn in the rivers of Russia, Alaska, Canada, Oregon, California, Washington, and Idaho.

Journalist: How long do you stay in the ocean?Onco: We stay in the ocean for eight to ten years.

Journalist: Has your population fallen?Onco: Yes, sadly our population has fallen 40%.

By Anaga N. Srinivas & Laura Apolloni

By Elliott White

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Salmon’s Day

I, Salmon of this creek, will go to the ocean

to get food.I, Salmon of this creek,will set off today.I, Salmon, going past predators will squirm to get to the sea.I, Salmon, resting will set off again tomorrow night.I, Salmon, passing Douglas firs and huckleberries, will thrash down, past dams Passing other salmon swimming in this river.They will start a new adventure tomorrow, just like me.

By Mizuki E. Turner.

SALMON TIMESThe Salmon Life Cycle The salmon life cycle begins when the eggs hatch in spring. The salmon, which are called alevin have yolk sacs attached to them that they can eat before they are ready to catch their own food. Then at three to four weeks the salmon, now called fry, leave the nest. Then camouflage markings, called parrmarks, appear when the salmon is a few months old. Then the journey down to the ocean begins. The salmon, now called smolt, turn a silver color. They are one to three years old. The smolt begin to swim down to the ocean. They have lots of predators such as sea lions and bears. And sometimes the water is low and they must wait. After one to eight years they will leave the ocean and begin their way back upriver. They will go to the streams that they were born in. They will find a partner. The female salmon will dig a nest in the gravel, called a redd, and lay her eggs in it. When they are finished laying their eggs they will die. The eggs will stay in the nest until they are hatched and then the newly hatched alevin will begin the trip again.

by Isabel Larson

A dead chum gets swept onto the rocks

Pictures by Isaac Baker

and Liam Bendicksen

PiIctures by Liam Bendicksen and Isaac Baker

A young salmon, a smolt, starts its journey.

Salmon eggs cluster in the gravel.

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Salmon Times StaffPoetry – Aditya and MizukiFolktales – Macey and HannahArticles – Olivia and IsabelPhotos – Isaac and Liam

Illustrations – Elliott and LouiseQ & A – Anaga and LauraBook reviews – Ben and PeterComics – Josh, William and Daniel

Advertisements - Leslie and MiriamPublisher / Editors – Mariam and Bich

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Bear Trouble in Kiaya’s Village A long, long time ago there was a girl named Kiaya. She had long glistening black hair, lime green eyes and a thick coat and pants, for she lived in Alaska. But her village was in trouble. They had no food for there was a ferocious grizzly bear in the forest. Her name was Ursa. She hated people and every night she would break into their food shed gobbling up every piece of food for she could not hunt for herself. Her parents never taught her. Meanwhile, Kiaya was thinking about all of this. It has never occurred to her that all of this was happening because of Ursa. She talked about this with her friend Salmon. Salmon was kind but strict. She looked concerned and thought Kiaya ought to tell

the whole village what she was thinking. Well, Kiaya did not like not listening to Salmon. So, she told her whole village. That night she set out with supplies that would last her two days. A bow and arrow, food and water and of course, her friend Salmon. Within a day Kiaya and Salmon came upon Ursa`s fortress. An old giant clam surrounded by dead salmon skeletons. Kiaya and Salmon dressed in disguises and went up to Ursa. She was sitting on the fleshy, pink inside part of a clam. Kiaya sneaked out her bow and arrow, TWANG!! The bow hit Ursa in the heart. And that was the end of Ursa. That`s why, today we have a better ecosystem and the trees along the riverbank are healthier because the dead salmon make fresh rich soil for trees. By Hannah Yoken

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by Will Seekamp