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Everybody Loves Atlantic Salmon-Here's the Catch,Diver in Fish Farm Pen
A diver descends through the 80,000 adult Atlantic Salmon. Due to the high demand by buyers, fish farmers pack the fish in their pens as tightly as possible. This allows for the transfer of diseases but primarily it creates the perfect habitat to…
Everybody Loves Atlantic Salmon-Here's the Catch,Fisherman on a Bike
An Irish fisherman heads home on his bike with his daily catch, a lovely, large Atlantic Salmon.
Everybody Loves Atlantic Salmon-Here's the Catch,'The Spawn'
The life cycle of salmon all comes down to this 5 second moment, when the female releases her eggs into her redd and the large males simultaneously fertilize her eggs. Clean, healthy rivers are key to survival of future stocks like these wild 40lb…
Everybody Loves Atlantic Salmon-Here's the Catch,'Climbing the Ladder'
An Atlantic Salmon grilse swims through a fish ladder on the Nordura River in Iceland. Iceland has conducted careful management of its rivers and the returns are as healthy as they have been for hundreds of years.
Everybody Loves Atlantic Salmon-Here's the Catch,' Returning Home'
Iceland boast the cleanest and healthiest salmon rivers in the world. Fishermen also pay up to 2000US dollars a day to fish Icelands most famous rivers. Here a fisherman changes his fly on the Hvita River. Although Iceland do not have the largest…
Everybody Loves Atlantic Salmon-Here's the Catch,'River of Dreams'
After four years at sea, massive, wild Atlantic Salmon return to one of the few remaining healthy rivers in Eastern Canada. Many rivers have been wiped out and escaped farmed salmon are outnumbering wild salmon by as much as 12 to 1 in some rivers.…
Brazil's Atlantic Forest, In Brazil Even the Frogs Dance
The Hylodes asper frog lives in roaring rivers where its voice doesn't carry very far. Males attract the females by kicking sideways with one leg and then the other, each time wiggling the toes of its opposite foot.
Brazil's Atlantic Forest, World's Only Fruit-Eating Frog
Living on scrubby vegetation near Rio and previously unphotographed, Xenohyla truncata is the only frog in the world that eats fruit.
Brazil's Atlantic Forest, Eye to Eye with the Flea Frog
Herpetologist Alexandro Tozetti takes a close look at a Psyllophryne didactyla, the world's smallest frog, which he and four colleagues located by sorting though leaf litter one leaf at a time over two days.
Brazil's Atlantic Forest, Herpetologist M. Martens in Viper Heav
Brazil's Queimada Grande island has the earth's highest viper density.Toxins of this endemic snake species act so fast that seabirds die before they can fly out of reach.