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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: S. Korea Salmon Fest Highlights Dwindling Fish Populati


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A young girl poses with her catch at the Yangyang Salmon Festival, which is held each year in late October or early November on the banks of South Korea's Namdae River.

The unusual event honors chum salmon, the only salmon species known to spawn in the Korean waterway. But the fishes' local population is crashing, studies show, and habitat loss due to human development along the Namdae is likely to blame.

Photograph by James Card