Link To Live Stream Camera: Bears Salmon Fishing In Alaska

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Link To Live Stream Camera: Bears Salmon Fishing In Alaska

Posted By: Watchman
Date: Friday, 19-Jul-2013 09:37:51

It's an encounter relived every summer through the ages: thousand of salmon swimming furiously upstream towards their spawning grounds – and the brown bear lying in wait to swat them out of the water and devour them. Only now, the meeting between fish and bear is captured on nine HD cameras streaming live video from Brooks river in Alaska's Katmai national park. About 70 bears are believed to be within a mile of the falls, and early footage from the cameras showed bears furiously batting salmon out of the water, and eating them up tail first, before repairing to digest off-camera. Organisers hope for the first time to record the entire salmon run, from the frenzied dash upstream in July through the autumn months. The camera network was set up by explore.org, a project of the Annenberg family foundations. It is powered by a combination of solar panels, wind energy and battery packs. Some of the cameras can be operated by remote control. which explore.org said would allow volunteers to pan or zoom on the bear-salmon action. "The challenge is to keep the network up and stable" in a remote area with no electricity, said spokesperson Jason Damata. Broadcasts will go out through July, as the fish make their way upstream past the waiting bears, and again in September, when they return from the spawning grounds. Link To Live Camera: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/15/alaska-salmon-hunt-bear-cam