Below are a few videos and photos taken by survey volunteers during salmon spawning surveys.
Female chum salmon ↓
Male chum salmon ↓
Male chum salmon ↓
Photos from the CWCAP 2016 Fall Salmon Spawning Survey ↓
The first few adult Chum salmon of 2015 were spotted in Piper’s Creek on Monday, October 26, 2015. By Dec 12, no more live fish were spotted by the Salmon Spawning Survey team. Below are some photos from the 2015 salmon run ↓
In the video below, a female Chum salmon excavates a nest (redd) during courtship with a male salmon in preparation for eggs and sperm to be deposited ↓
In the video below, the dominant male chases off another male after much competition and then returns to the nest (redd). However, the female in the above video gave up on this nest and moved upstream during the nearly half hour that the two males fought. Notice early in the video that the dominant male grabs the caudal peduncle (narrow tail region before the tail fin) of the other male with its hooked jaws that have developed during the transition from adult ocean salmon to an adult spawning salmon ↓