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Millions of bright red sockeye are heading to Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park to spawn% P& l+ F5 l! M% B& W
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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.( Z: v% b5 _% B9 |2 y
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Every 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)
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# t! A- s6 H0 O8 Y+ T2 RUsually 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., @' S& ?3 u% C" n7 g
0 N/ U" |+ |4 ?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.) s. {( P" N' [) M( L
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