Atlantic Salmon spawning October 2023 - near Bathurst, New Brunswick

Can you count the Atlantic Salmon?
In partnership with The Nepisiguit Salmon Association, we have been active for the past couple of years collecting streamside, river, and ecosystem data.
For many years, decades actually, we have been involved with many other projects, electrofishing, streamside incubation, brood stock collection, and creel reports.
This is on the Nepisiguit River, where in late October, Atlantic Salmon perform the annual spawning ritual.
The females create these nests as the dominant males fight for the opportunity to fertilize the female's eggs.
It is interesting to watch the behavior, especially as the male fish chase other males off the bed.
This behavior only happens, generally during the spawn cycle.
Some other fish, likely females, sit alone on the "Reds", resting, either completing the spawn or preparing to release eggs.
In regards to collecting data with a drone, we are very conscious not to bother any fish, we capture images and move on quickly, although at no point do they seem to be in any way bothered. The focus is on the job at hand for the fish.
Our job is to collect still and video pics of the area, this is used by NSA to asses fish counts, health, and habitat.
These Atlantic Salmon are a renewable resource, unlike their cousins, salmon species on the West Coast, Atlantic Salmon can return to the same river they were born to spawn multiple times throughout their life span.
Migration happens, they winter in the river, and in spring they start eating again usually on smelt and then they travel back out to sea to bulk up off the coasts of Greenland.
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[@Rifff3]

Cool footage and Cool sliding Bass line in your instrumental as well. Thumbs up.

[@kingswayguitar]

should make a 10 hour loop of that