Page 179 - The Miracle of Migration in Animals

HARUN YAHYA

Nevertheless, it chose the left fork and started approaching the
hatchery from the rear.
Its reason for this surprising decision was concealed under a
nearby roadway, passing over a canal that drained excess water from
the hatchery. Normally, what came from this canal would have
drained into the earth before reaching the river. But that year, there
had been heavy rainfall, and water from the canal reached as far as

the river. This shallow flow was enough to show the salmon the way.
The salmon must have followed the scent it recognized and left
the river to swim along the drainage canal, swimming or dragging it-
self through water only 5 to 10 centimeters (2 to 4 inches) deep.
Then, after finding the right way through the complex water
pipes in the tunnel, it would have found itself trapped.
It would have squeezed into the concrete canal under the hatch-
ery’s wooden footpath.
But the salmon didn’t give up. It found the pipe 12 centimeters
(5 inches) in diameter connecting the canal to the tank, then moved
along this pipe to come up against a final obstacle: the metal grill at
the end of the pipe. It got round this obstacle with a few hard butts of
its head.
And so at the end of this incredible journey, the salmon wound
up in the tank where it had come into the world two years previously.
When the staff at the fish hatchery had worked out the route,
they wondered if perhaps some other salmon were returning to the
tank. To investigate, they took up the wooden boards of the path and
looked into the canal below. And there, to their amazement, were no
fewer than 70 salmon, all with the fish hatchery’s tag.
This extraordinary story gives us some important evidence
about the creation.
It is interesting that each phase of the journey is carefully calcu-
lated.

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