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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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