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Sockeye Surprise: Salmon Return in Massive Numbers

By David KnowlesSep 10th 2010 – 8:28PM
Ian Smith, ZUMA Press

Ian Smith, ZUMA Press

(Sept. 10) -- Call it a miracle of the fishes. For the past three years, the sockeye salmon population plummeted in Canada's Fraser River. In 2009, the number of the red-skinned fish returning to spawn hit just 1.5 million, a 50-year low that seemed to portend the possible end to a way of life for local fisherman and...

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The Fraser River () is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Mount Robson in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for , into the Strait of Georgia at the city of Vancouver.

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