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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Adams River Sockeye Salmon Stories

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Community: Thompson

Every year during September and October, sockeye salmon return to the quiet banks of the Adams River to spawn and to die. The journey is 405 km (251 miles) inland from the Pacific Ocean. A long, arduous journey for a salmon.

Sockeye salmon return to the Adams River every year. But, peak migrations occur every fourth year (2006, 2010, 2014 ...). The returning sockeye reached 3.6 million in 2002.

The sockeye salmon are welcomed each year by the “Salute to the Sockeye” celebration, which draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, a park section along the Adams River.

The Adams River section of the Think Salmon website is a collection of stories about the 2006 sockeye salmon run, photos and video from the “Salute to the Sockeye” celebration and comments from visitors about what the salmon mean to them—what they think when they “think salmon.”

Read more about Adams River and sockeye salmon.