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Super Early Sockeye
Counted at Bonneville Dam

by Staff
The Columbian, February 6, 2015

Adult Sockeye Salmon leaps upstream While overzealous Columbia River anglers are watching the Bonneville Dam counts for the first spring chinook of 2015, something else has been counted: a chrome-bright sockeye salmon.

A counter at Bonneville reported the 20-inch-long sockeye came through the dam at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Sockeye normally do not arrive until May and peak in June.

This is either the third or fourth year in a row an early-bird sockeye has been noted at Bonneville.


Staff
Super Early Sockeye Counted at Bonneville Dam
The Columbian, February 6, 2015

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