rainbow trout fish farm

The Tree Farm image stimulated a number of ideas. I immediately thought of Chris Burden’s installation of old LA street lampposts outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They look like an urban forest of vertical trees. Then I thought of other types of farms. I drifted to fish farms and landed (drove today) in Fillmore’s State of California Fish Hatchery where they raise over 1 million rainbow trout a year to be placed or seeded in SoCal’s lakes and streams. Don’t put your hand in the water as these hungry fish will chew your fingers off. The trout pictured was coming up out of the water to find some fish food I threw in and created this feeding frenzy. I learned that the state of California has genetically modified these trout to spawn at different times of the year in order to be able to stock the fish year round. It’s like finding Waldo to look for all the trout in this image. They are there….just look for the dots.