Monday, July 2, 2007

Finnish salmon rivers

Man they have a lot of salmon rivers in Norway as in Finland we have only 5 of them (if you don't count the tributary rivers). And actually only 3 of those give enough salmon to really talk about. Those are Teno, Näätämö and Tornionjoki rivers. Simojoki river has been getting better and I think they do catch fair amount of salmon from Kymijoki river also. Kiiminkijoki you can't really call a salmon river, but every year some salmon is caught. Oulujoki river used to be a very good salmon river before they build it for power production during 1940's to 1960's. Now it produces 2700 GWh. A few years back they build fish ladder so salmon can go past the first dam in Oulu. I've read that now there have been some salmon babies swimming in Oulujoki river above the first dam. I truly hope they build the fish ladder also to the next dam above and salmon starts to really come back to this river because I live in Oulu.

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