:25:03
For some, greed prompts
its own style of fishing...
:25:09
the mugger.
:25:16
The salmon banquet is brief.
:25:18
Nothing is wasted.
:25:21
Many feed, but with hibernation
time approaching
:25:25
none more urgently than bear.
:25:34
To store up fat,
bears may fish 20 hours a day.
:25:46
Large males can put
on 300 pounds.
:25:51
Success in the world
of the brown bear
:25:53
is a simple matter of reaching
one's sleeping weight.
:26:00
Some reach it a little too soon.
:26:10
For salmon that make it past
the gauntlet of predators
:26:13
time is running out.
:26:16
Powerful instincts have brought
them back
:26:18
to lay and fertilize the eggs
of the next generation.
:26:23
Only one of a hundred born here
have survived to perform
:26:27
this final act
:26:29
and in giving life,
all will die.
:26:43
Their eggs will develop
beneath the ice of winter
:26:46
in water enriched
:26:48
by their parents'
decaying bodies
:26:51
turning loss to renewal,
ending to beginning.