Record sockeye run on lower Columbia river - highest since 1938
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Dalles Chronicle/ Columbia Basin Bulletin] July 16, 2014
The sockeye salmon tally this year at the lower Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam on Tuesday, July 8, set a record for any season since the construction of the dam was completed in 1938 and the counts began.
Mid-summer sockeye spawners counted passing Bonneville through Tuesday totaled 526,367, and counting.
The record for an entire season was a 515,673 fish count in 2012.
Another 12,858 sockeye were counted passing the dam Wednesday to up the record to 539,225.
Fishery officials as of Monday estimated that the 2014 sockeye return to the mouth of the Columbia River will total more than 560,000 fish....
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