My life as a sockeye salmon

My life as a Sockeye Salmon
(in the eyes of Sandrow the salmon)
By: Ah’mony Byrd



As I begin my life as a baby salmon, I instantly start my life
alone. My mother and father die because of the lack of
energy for a return trip to the ocean so I usually spend my
life around my friends.



I start my life in streams or lakes found in the Northern
Pacific Ocean. I usually stay for about 1 to 3 years before
beginning my migrational period. When i'm hungry( which is
not often) I tend to have a craving for plankton and little
insects. Although I am a baby, I have 3 key predators while
i'm here that don't care about me, all they care about is
there stomachs! Bears, Eagles, and Wolves all try to strip me
from my path and life and I hate that.



As I end the long 3 years of dodging predators and hanging
out with friends, I regain my purpose and set sail for the
Estuary. This travel can be about 50 miles from my home
stream. The Estuary provides me good food to eat as I past
through. The food include crustaceans and plankton.



I then end up in the ocean. This is the place that I grow. This is because the
energy and the amount of food is way more plentiful than freshwater food. I spend
about 1 to 3 years here as well, dodging mammals like sharks. Then i head back
to spawn where I start the process of reproducing. The female digs a whole in the
gravel and lays her eggs down to be fertilized by in this case, me.

I end this life here as I dont have the will anymore to eat as well as any energy at
all. But as I leave this world I remember what my prime goal was, and I feel pretty
proud about it.

Facts

● For each and every stage of my life, there's always one problem that I'd
have to face. Whether it is protecting myself from predators like Bears,
Eagles, etc. but there is one thing that affects me the most and that
problem is climate change. Climate change kills us because we are
extremely sensitive to temperature changes. With that being said the
higher temp of the ocean or rivers can have serious impacts on us. This
makes salmon more susceptible to predators, parasites and disease,
andThe heat also reduces snowpack and causes glaciers to retreat, which
means the rivers and streams have less water.

Please!! Cut down on the use of fossil fuels and tree cutting:(
Sandrow the salmon and his kind are counting on you!