The salmon are running in East Chicago. This month marks the 20th annual return of a prized and ecologically sensitive game fish to a stream that is fed, essentially, by the toilets and drains of this city of 30,000 residents.
So says an article in the Post-Trib.com
This is a strange story. The fish are invasive Pacific salmon in the Great Lakes, and they're swimming up to a sewage plant to spawn. But I love the story anyway, because this is nature bursting out with a power of life that astonishes. It's better than a sappy movie where the underdog wins against all odds. I say GO SALMON!
note: photo of Chicago salmon fishing, but it does not show sewage salmon
The idea of them leaping up the pipe, totally adapting to thier current situation and making the best of it is great - a real metaphor for the current state of affairs....
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