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Vitals

Birthday
• 1987-12-01
Gender
• Male
Location
• Seattle,WA
Member Since
• 2005-12-15
Occupation
• STUDENT
Real Name
• DJ Allen

Personal

Achievements
• Regionally recognized artist-attend and of Skaura 2006
Anime Fan Since
• about 5 years
Favorite Anime
• SCryEd, Cowboy Bebop, FMA, Inuyasha, Naruto, DBZ, Slayers, FLCL and many more...
Goals
• to get to know other anime buffs... to get opens on my art...
Hobbies
• Fishing, drawing & watching anime
Talents
• an excellent fisherman, buding, drawing

myOtaku.com: wonderkid

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Hatchery Madness!!!
Well I finally got to the fish hatchery for my internship on Monday and then I went back again for a school field trip yesterday. Well it was an absolute kick @$$ time. To give you an idea of what it was like Picture yourself in a 30ft. diameter circle in water up to your needs or higher. Now add a couple hundred salmon from 20in. to 3ft. long or more and weighing as much as 60lbs. crashing around your feet. And your mission is to reach out And grab one in the tail and hang on for dear life while this fish does everything in its power to get away from you and you have to pick it and tested see if it’s ready to spawn and if so carry it over to its designated hand and then hold it still while someone sits it over the head with a baseball bat to knock it out. Then two other people will harvest the eggs for sperm from it and makes them in a five gallon buckets and there you have it a fresh batch of dates ready to be raised for future generations. Needless to say this all sounds easy due in part to the fact these fish are very strong and not very easy to hang onto considering their covered in a thick coating of slime. As well as you also have the added hazard of being slapped in the face by their tail forehead were shot in the mouth with salmon sperm or just getting egg in your hair and not to mention soaking wet. This was the fourth time I’ve done this and it seems like every time I do it I just like it even more, wary as most people think once is enough. I’m going to include a couple of pictures below see you guys can see what it’s like .

Here's a photo to give you an idea of how big a 60lb. salmon is.

If you have any questions about my experiences at the hatchery don’t hesitate to send me up PM.
Sincerely your hatchery technician and professional salmon wrestler, ~wonderkid~ ^_^

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