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Collecting Japanese Salmon Sperm · 5 November 04
You’ve been on CNN.com far too much this week.
To take your mind off the obvious, today I give you an amazing tale from Ching To, a teacher North of me here in Japan.
This story may gross you out.
I just witnessed what happens on a salmon farm. I was asked to observe a science class not knowing what the lesson was about.
All the fifth years (8 year olds) were in there and there were two salmon fishermen standing in the middle. One of them held out a live female salmon over half a metre along, proceeded to unblinkingly slit it’s belly…
...here I’m skipping an extra-gross part…
...The fisherman then picked an even huger live male salmon, then (sorry, I can’t believe I’m going to tell you this) the guy sqeezed the salmon’s nether regions and it’s sperm came spurting out into the bowl of eggs. It didn’t stop there, he (and I’m not joking here) got a bit in his eye and was trying to squint it out while holding the fish.
At this point I was mortified, I was watching everything through my fingers and hiding behind my kids who were standing on chairs to see it… The eggs were then taken away and put into a temperature controlled aquarium to fertilise until one day lots of little baby salmon would hatch.
What a weird start to the day. I guess the kids certainly learned something, even if it was the most graphic lesson in reproduction I’ve ever been to…
(I have no idea how to end this post. I mean, how do I follow a guy getting salmon spermed in the eye? Feel free to make suggestions.)
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— maggie 2648 days ago #
Oddly, I was told a similar story by a friend of mine in southwest England who visited a pig farm as a 9 year old with his school.
There he witnessed a man decapitating pigs and handing the heads to another guy who split each head in half with a band saw to scoop out the brains. Course boys screaming and little girls fainting.
Myself, growing up in the bible belt of USA, school trips were to more so inert places.
I suppose the moral of all this is “if you never watch the violence, you won’t ever get desensitized to it.”
— ayman 2648 days ago #
was the gross part you skipped where all the eggs come squirting out from the female?
— angela 2648 days ago #
The fisherman could have said “After battle, I killed a salmon for supper. See you baby.”
And then you would have recognized your student, extending his battle into international political allegory.
Wild country.
— Camilo 2647 days ago #
Yo, so who’s angela? She from the Pacific NW too? She’s right. we do get to go on a lot of school feild trips to the salmon farms. Also to watch the salmon spawning. Then we have to draw diagrams. Fun stuff.
What was your costume for halloween? the one eye decorated with eyeliner man? Ha ha. liked the typhoon costume. But me and Cynthia as disco divas has to be a close second.
— Carli 2647 days ago #
And yeah, earthquakes are scary. But it’s funny how you get used to them and (dangerously) blase, even.
Sometimes, I’m asleep when they happen and I think, oh it’ll be over soon, hide under my duvet and carry on snoozing…!
— Ching 2644 days ago #
— Urban Shaman 2642 days ago #
For the record:
...One of them held out a live female salmon over half a metre along, proceeded to unblinkingly slit it’s belly, it was so disgusting. Th ekids were so grossed out.The female’s shiny orange see through eggs poured out into the bowl. I was horrified but it didn’t end there. The fisherman then picked an even huger live male salmon…
Was the part that was cut. Though it seems pretty tame now.
Ayman: “Eat the ikura” and pig decapitation in one comment. Stellar work, bro.
Your friend,
— saleem 2638 days ago #
1. the salmon had been clubbed prior to the lesson, but were still alive.
2. you peeps are brick while i’m easily grossed out.
3. the baby salmon are due for christmas.
— ching 2626 days ago #
— Feraz 2621 days ago #