Sentences with phrase «spawning sockeye salmon»

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Every summer, sockeye also spawn by the hundreds of thousands here, and an excess of salmon eggs is left floating in the rivers or collecting in clusters along the bank.

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.

[29] Reproduction in the sockeye salmon has to be accomplished with the energy stores brought to the spawning grounds.

In the fall, a million sockeye salmon journey up the river to spawn, and dozens of grizzly bears come to its banks to dine before winter.

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.

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.

After they spawn in late summer and fall, Katmai's sockeye salmon begin to die.