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Millions of bright red sockeye are heading to Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park to spawn
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{+ O6 Y) [2 V6 \( [3 k4 CCBC News Posted: Oct 06, 2014 9:13 AM PT| Last Updated: Oct 07, 2014 8:52 AM PT
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: \% ?3 o) d; N. ~. WOver 200,000 people are expected to turn out over the next three weeks to watch one of the most spectacular displays of natural beauty in the world.; F2 Q2 E, P7 z( p7 |! J0 A+ z
! \& a! S2 s' |+ HEvery four years millions of bright red sockeye salmon return to the Adams River, near Kamloops, B.C., turning the shallow water crimson with spawning fish.
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The Adams River sockeye run is the largest in the world. (CBC)% X7 K2 W3 I/ S
( l O3 U+ B4 S0 ]1 r! vUsually the salmon return during the first three weeks of October with Thanksgiving being the peak weekend./ R6 W% c' z# h6 j
- K6 G1 o2 W3 Z0 MJeremy Heighton, the event coordinator with the Adams River Salmon Society, says the salmon were a bit late in arriving, but they are there now.
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1 G. c# t, `" QThe 2014 Salute to the Sockeye festival began Friday at Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park north east of Kamloops.The festival runs until Oct 26.
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