Watch: Fish Swimming Across the Road

Here’s something you don’t see every day. This video was posted to The Weather Network Canada’s Facebook feed a few weeks ago, with the following caption:

Why did the fish cross the road? According to local reports in Seattle, Washington last month, a flooded street was the fastest way to get upstream.

The 38-second video shows a bunch of fish trying–many of them successfully–to swim upstream by crossing flooded roadways where water flows across the pavement!

One commenter noted, “Free fish and the man just drives by? If that was me, l am stopping the van, loading up, go home, gut them, and freeze them for later!”

I’m not too sure about that. Some folks responded that chum salmon isn’t that good, and picking up fish with one’s hands is illegal there.

Anyhow, this is definitely worth a watch. And although we see them wriggling across the road, I don’t think we need to hop on some bandwagon claiming that bad ol’ humans blocked their natural route. This is a flood; the water and fish both follow different paths when water levels are more normal.

Enjoy.

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.