Sentences with phrase «sockeye salmon return»

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«Bristol Bay is home to the world's largest runs of sockeye salmon with returns averaging 37.5 million annually and having been as high as 60 million.»

Another benefit of Kamchatka's isolation is protection for populations of chum, sockeye, chinook, coho and pink salmon, which return by the millions to spawn in Kamchatka's rivers.

Chinook and sockeye salmon from central Idaho, for example, travel over 900 miles and climb nearly 7000 feet from the Pacific ocean as they return to spawn.

The red line in this satellite image of Katmai marks the freshwater journey of sockeye salmon as they return to Katmai National Preserve.

Take, for example, the massive declines in returning chinook salmon populations this year (and sockeye last year).