Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
The normal life cycle of a salmon is to swim upriver and spawn right before they die. That leaves a lot of dead salmon in popular spawning areas. In the late 1980s, university students began studying the salmon population at Hansen Creek in Alaska. They counted and measured the dead salmon, and then by protocol, they flung the carcasses up onto the north-facing bank of the stream, in order to prevent the same fish from being counted again.
The reason the protocol is to throw all the fish to one side of the stream and not the other was a long-term experiment in forest growth. Now the results are in.Over the past…
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