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Millions of bright red sockeye are heading to Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park to spawn5 k: k P* L. [2 y1 |
- k: _ \# e* M5 TCBC News Posted: Oct 06, 2014 9:13 AM PT| Last Updated: Oct 07, 2014 8:52 AM PT
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7 c3 M% ]0 `1 p" }Over 200,000 people are expected to turn out over the next three weeks to watch one of the most spectacular displays of natural beauty in the world.
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Every four years millions of bright red sockeye salmon return to the Adams River, near Kamloops, B.C., turning the shallow water crimson with spawning fish.
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The Adams River sockeye run is the largest in the world. (CBC)
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3 V9 }3 E2 _6 ~8 UUsually the salmon return during the first three weeks of October with Thanksgiving being the peak weekend.
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Jeremy Heighton, the event coordinator with the Adams River Salmon Society, says the salmon were a bit late in arriving, but they are there now.+ Z0 U4 ]# _: L; C" u9 N
7 q: ]. e( S0 U0 I0 E5 ?9 EThe 2014 Salute to the Sockeye festival began Friday at Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park north east of Kamloops.The festival runs until Oct 26.
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