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Millions of bright red sockeye are heading to Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park to spawn
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- c* n, }7 B9 q6 Y, ^CBC News Posted: Oct 06, 2014 9:13 AM PT| Last Updated: Oct 07, 2014 8:52 AM PT
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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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% w8 E; [0 S( o% v9 K3 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.. ]* q# n5 @) N- A+ y4 w
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" h+ C( P" Z' }% W: \) f8 k; q/ p# cThe Adams River sockeye run is the largest in the world. (CBC)5 j9 z3 ~. }6 {2 q2 H, M2 D2 @/ ]
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Usually the salmon return during the first three weeks of October with Thanksgiving being the peak weekend.
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w! a h3 T( L& LJeremy 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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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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