Snapping Salmon: A Biologist's Underwater Passion

Snapping Salmon: A Biologist's Underwater Passion

By Ketzel Levine

Source: Morning Edition

8/2/2008

Mary Edwards is a fish biologist who loves salmon — especially if they're alive and swimming. She has studied their anatomy, life cycle and courtship rituals; even their afterlife as nutrients for trees.

But Edwards' greatest passion is to take portrait-style photos of fish underwater, in the remote rivers and lakes of the Pacific Northwest.

I catch up with Edwards in eastern Oregon, near her home in out-of-the-way Joseph, where she works for the Nez Perce fisheries as a research biologist. This being migration season, she's agreed to take me fishing — for pictures, that is.

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