British Colombie sees largest Salmon run since 1913

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/26/130842386/british-columbia-sees-largest-salmon-run-in-a-century?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Sockeye salmon are making their run up the Fraser River in numbers not seen since 1913. More than 34 million salmon are reportedly in the British Columbia river system, befuddling scientists who last year tallied less than 2 million fish.

The BBC has an interactive report on the run — and some words of caution from scientists who warn against interpreting the boom of 2010 as a promise that similar numbers of salmon will return in 2011.

The long-term pattern of smaller runs has been blamed on both commercial fish farms and an increase in predators in the sockeyes' migratory path.

Who wants to go fishing?

[Suich]

1. I was in BC for a couple of weeks in August

and I've never seen so many salmon! Everybody had a least a cooler full. We ate it ten nights out of fourteen...smoked, on the grill, baked, fillets, chunks, whole....and it was only about 50 cents a pound!

Yum!