Mr. Rennie's Class

John                                        Oct.26,2010

                        The Stench of the Dead Fish

   The hatchery field trip was almost over and I was exited what the thelast thing we get to do because in the hatchery it’s so fun.

“lastwe get to see spawning fish” Kelly said and I was glad because I’venever seen fish spawn and that got me to a surprise.We went over at theriver and just as we got there there were a whole bunch of fishspawning but it’s still hard to see though.

Ibrought out my ipod and took a nice video footage of  the spawning fishand I noticed that it’s connected to a lake where there was a wholebunch of stinking and moldy like you’ve never seen dead fish furtheron. I went to ask Kelly looked really nice so I can look at the deadfish“can I go see the dead fish further on Kelly?” “sure”she said andthere I went all exited again and I recognized man I should stopgetting too exited because it’s starting to be an issue for me.

ManI could never imagined how stinky it was , it smelled like a dumpsterfull of rotten fish left there in a year or so. I was even hoping thestench won’t turn out as bad as I expected. But Even though I know Icouldn’t last longer I didn’t care at the smell at all and  I pinchedmy nose so I couldn’t smell most of the stinky dead fish. I also took avideo of the dead fishes for five seconds , at the water and on therocky surface of the land. I went back again looked at the decayingfish and said  “It’s sad for the fish they die after they spawn but atthe bright side they did contribute for the world”. I knew that if asalmon doesn’t find a partner to spawn then their life’s a waste.

I saw jay going close to the dead fish too and thought how could he survive the awful stench when he’s really close.

Whenit was time to go we all went back at the front of the hatchery and Ididn’t knew that Ellen and the other girls were there.

We all went to the bus just in time for us to go home and I was glad for that field trip!!

By: John