I've been wondering how this run of salmon could be so great after dismal returns to the Frasier River in recent years.  I would like to direct you to Ms. Morton.  Please read the following paragraph and then click the link to the rest of the article.  This is your official homework.  For those of you new to our fish list.  I feel it is important for us to stay current on fish news and politics, so occassionally I make parts of these emails "required reading".  Because we enjoy eating this wonderful resource for dinner, please take the time to read about our friend salmon:   

The 2010 Fraser Sockeye return is a phenomena. The fishermen have not seen it this good for 50 years. They keep thinking the last sockeye has entered Johnstone Strait, but the fish just keep pouring in from the Pacific at both ends of Vancouver Island. I go and float with them every morning in Queen Charlotte Strait and watch them finning all around me, rolling at the surface like porpoises, always pointing south, never stopping. Hundreds of miles away newspapers in Fraser River towns are reporting an economic boon from all the people pouring in to the fish. (read the rest of this article)

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