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Millions of bright red sockeye are heading to Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park to spawn
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Over 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.
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@, e2 C6 P; c% t8 rEvery 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.4 r% E3 L, x$ J+ G" X) M* n& K$ Y
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The Adams River sockeye run is the largest in the world. (CBC)/ j$ X& i5 P' B# q
# {( }. @% _( a AUsually the salmon return during the first three weeks of October with Thanksgiving being the peak weekend.
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Jeremy Heighton, the event coordinator with the Adams River Salmon Society, says the salmon were a bit late in arriving, but they are there now." j1 J; b" u, R- k$ `
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The 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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