Sentences with phrase «sockeye salmon runs»

«There are three volcanic events in the last 100 years, and we had record sockeye salmon runs in those three volcanic dust events,» George says.

There have been three volcanic events in the last 100 years paired with record sockeye salmon runs.

But the industrialized motif of North America's longest dam - free river belies a rare natural treasure: a sockeye salmon run with a historical average of eight million fish worth over $ 1 billion.

Each autumn, the world's most concentrated sockeye salmon run flows up Canada's 7.5 - mile - long Adams River in British Columbia.

The peak of the sockeye salmon run in the Naknek River watershed, which the Brooks River is part of, is in early July.

Maybe nothing else better illustrates this than the annual sockeye salmon run — a powerful example of change, adaptation, and instinct.

Not exact matches

«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.»

By midsummer, low stream flows and warm water had killed half the annual sockeye salmon breeding run in the Columbia River.

Grizzlies flock to the park's Brooks River in summer to fish for sockeye salmon on their spawning run inland from the Bering Sea, a spectacle that humans can view and photograph from elevated wooden platforms.

A small run of summer sockeye salmon are running into the Glendale system July 20.

Its run of sockeye salmon, in particular, also attract one of the greatest gatherings of brown bears on earth.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game carefully manages the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishery to ensure that enough fish are allowed to escape the fishery and run up river to sustain the population.

Port Alberni is know for its runs of sockeye salmon in late June and most of July.

The Fraser River of Canada has runs at least four times larger, plus millions more of sockeye and other salmon species.