Red Tag Comes Back - Science I Can Read Author:Fred Phleger This is the amazing and exciting story of a Salmon fingerling's early life and her journey to the Sea, her being caught, tagged and returned to the River by a Wildlife Conservation Biologist, and her return, years later, to the place of her birth in the River, encountering and avoiding dangerous predators, hungry bigger fish, growing and maturin... more »g, her big spawing migration years later, avoiding huge fishing nets, using the spawning ladders when she encounters a Dam, avoiding a Bear and Indians intent on catching her, her being identified by an young Indian who watched her being tagged by a Biologist as a little boy, her laying eggs and her eternal rest after ensuring another generation is born.
A unique juvenile illustrated Pacific Northwestern wild salmon story at a time when it was noticed that their numbers were declining rapidly due to the fishing industry, logging, dams and power generation, political interests, silt clogged waterways, and toxic pollution. (A Science I Can Read Book.)« less
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