Frozen Salmon

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A November freeze hits a late fall run of Chinook Salmon on Oregon's Eagle Creek in the Columbia River Gorge. See salmon fight to spawn, rest, and struggle to live out the last days of their lives. Fins and bodies bear the scars of their long journey from the Pacific Ocean and through Bonneville Dam. Dead fish litter the bank and small American Dippers flit to and fro. Birds, snow, ice, fish, spawning, dying salmon, dead salmon, salmon run, Portland