A record summer for returning sockeye. By Scott Learn. Newhouse News Service
“Sockeye salmon, an oceangoing species that starts and ends its life hundreds of river miles inland, are swimming up the Columbia River this summer in numbers unseen in five decades.”
First sockeye comes home to Idaho. By Rocky Barker – Idaho Statesman
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I was at Bonneville Dam in June and the Sockeye were thick in the fish ladder as observed at the counter’s station. It appeared that they were making it passed the dam in large numbers. Sadly Kings were few and far between.