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[ShaunO]

This is reportedly the Quinsam river near the hatchery. To say there are a lot of Pinks in the system is an understatement!

[Humpy]

Want to make the trip to Campbell river, not sure if it is worth the drive from the LM.

[SkagitDreamer]

That's insane!!! 

[VAGAbond]

When the old timers talked about so many salmon "you could walk across the river on their backs", that is what they were talking about.  The abundance that used to be common here was phenomenal compared to now,

[SkagitDreamer]

You said it VAGAbond! That's first thing I thought of - dad actually telling a believable fish story haha but on all rivers with all runs - that must have been abundance. I never saw the quinsam like that. Wild.

[TheLostSockeye]

This is reportedly the Quinsam river near the hatchery. To say there are a lot of Pinks in the system is an understatement!

here i found the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKXgGT1WVMc

i wonder what the run size is? 30,000? 300,000?

[VAGAbond]

Those fish look bright considering they are stacked up at the hatchery.

[redtide]

never seen so many salmon in one area. great news for the river and the hatchery.

[dobrolub]

My late grandma told me animals know when they need to produce more offsprings to make sure survival of the species

[clarki]

An amazing, gratifying sight.

Reminds me of a story that Mark Hume wrote about in "The Run of the River". In 1905, one of the first fisheries officers in the Shuswap Region, David Mitchell, camped on the banks of the Salmon River about a mile upstream from the lake. He tied his canoe to stake that was driven into the bed of the stream and went to sleep with not a salmon in sight. In the morning the river was full of sockeye. So many that they were forced up the sloping sides of the river to fall back on those below, and his canoe was resting on the backs of a writhing red mass.

The fish lower downstream, suffocating for oxygen, rushed back to the lack to breathe fresh water through their gills. The rush of fish downstream was like the noise of a thousand ducks rising from a lake. The river became quiet again, flowing by the stake 14 inches below the wet high water mark reached a few minutes before.

Sadly that run of sockeye was extinct 8 years later follwing a series of rockslides caused by railroad construction at Hells Gate.

                   

[islanddude]

 The bear that I saw this evening was not having any problem catching his fish.
    That fence should be open to let those early pinks continue up the river. They built a by pass on the falls before the lower Quinsam Lake. A lot of those bright fish probably where born in the upper system.

[Every Day]

Those fish farms are sure doing a good job of making the pinks all go extinct....

[Shawn6o4]

That is the mother load lol. Wow I've never seen that in my life..

[Easywater]

Those fish farms are sure doing a good job of making the pinks all go extinct....

Pinks have been having good returns for several years ever since the fish farms fallowed or used Slice during pink fry migration periods.

[swimmingwiththefishes]

what does "fallowed" or "use splice" mean Easywater?