[ondan de sake mo kaerenu haha no kawa]

With global warming
salmon cannot return
to the mother river


鮭は川で生まれ、日本を出発して海外に旅に出ます。
３～5年ほどかけ、
オホーツク海～アラスカ海～ベーリング海で海洋生活を送り、
産卵期になると、自分たちが生まれた母なる川へ戻り、
命を繋いだあと、その一生を終えます。

ところが近年の温暖化の影響で、
海水の温度も高くなり、
三陸では川へ戻ってくる鮭が激減しているそうです。

鮭は生まれた川の匂いを覚えているそうですが、
母なる川を見失ってしまったのか、

磨さんは、もう一句読んでいます。

『大海で母なる川の匂い消え』


Salmon are born in rivers and leave Japan to travel overseas.

They spend 3 to 5 years living at sea in the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Alaska,
and the Bering Sea.
When the spawning season comes, they return to the mother river where they were born,
connecting lives and then end their lives.

However, due to global warming in recent years, seawater temperatures have risen,
and the number of salmon returning to the rivers in Sanriku is drastically decreasing.

It is said that salmon remember the smell of the river in which they were born,
but have they lost sight of their mother river?

Migaku-san is also writing another verse.

In the ocean
disappears hte smell of
the mother river