Photos: Indians gather eels at Willamette Falls
Last Of The Lamprey
Credit: AP
A photo taken July 8, 2011, shows a tribal fishermen searching for lamprey at the bottom of the Willamette Falls, in Oregon City, Ore. As long as Indians have lived in the Northwest, they have looked to lamprey for food. But in the decades since dozens of hydroelectric dams have harnessed the power of the Columbia, Willamette and Snake rivers to make electricity, this jawless fish popularly known as an eel has steadily declined until Columbia Basin tribes have just a few places left to go for lamprey, one where the majestic roar of Willamette Falls is framed by a power plant and an abandoned paper mill. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
