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Salmon Run --  Adams River, BC

10/14/2022

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 The sockeye salmon run on the Adams River in British Columbia is one of the largest in the world. It's a spectacular live nature show that you don't have to pay to see. There's no entry fee into the park and no guided tours you have to take. Even dogs on leashes are allowed. 

If you have the heart of an artist or simply a deep love of all that is outdoors, you will be captivated by the colors, the reflections, the movement, and the sheer determination of these magificent creatures. Every second is in motion, so the scene is constantly shifting. Sometimes it was a kaleidescope sensation of colors; opalesce in other moments. The red salmon and army green head shimmers beneath the current and the light changes the colors all the time. For an instant, sometimes you can see the eyes or mouth or fins or tail. There'll be white water from the fish jumping. Other times it's a beautiful abstract painting of reds, yellows, oranges, blues and greens. 
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Salmon are born in fresh water and swim to the ocean. At the end of their life, they swim back upstream against the current to the river and spot where they were born. The salmon stop eating when they reach the fresh water. "This means that adults can go six months without food while transferring body fats into their gametes for reproduction." 


The female lays her eggs in the gravel beneath the water in several spots and the males will fight to fertilize it. After they spawn, the salmon die. Marine rich nutrients from life in the ocean are released into the river and ecosystem.

​The eggs that don't get washed away, will remain where the mother salmon laid them through the winter where they grow into an embryo. When it's time in the spring, the tiny salmon wiggle free from their soft shell while retaining the yolk sac for nutrients. At this stage they are called an alevin. Once their yolk sac is absorbed they are considered fry. They have the nickname of "buttoned up fry" because there's a visible seam underneath their belly. 

The roundtrip distance for these salmon from the fresh water rivers to the ocean is about 4000 km (2285 miles). Most salmon live four to five years. Varying numbers of survival say one to two percent of hatched salmon make into adulthood to reproduce. 

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​Beginning in Monashee Mountains, fed by unnamed glaciers, the Adams River flows into the Thompson and Fraser Rivers and also into the Adams Lake and Shuswap Lake. Adams Lake is 457 meters (1,499 ft) deep and 63 kilometers (39 mi) long. (See map at the end of this blog.) 
Wiki states its mean depth makes it the 6th deepest lake in the world. The lake was named after First Nations’ Chief Adam (sometimes spelled Atahm) of the Secwépemc people. He died in 1862 during the smallpox epidemic, that reportedly wiped out over half of the local Secwepemc population.
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Adams Lake
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By Obsidian Soul - Own work, CC BYSA 3.0 httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=17555398
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Nature creates beautiful abstract pieces of art.
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I watched this salmon leap and swim a fast section of the river. The determination was palapable.
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The red X is where I took photos of the salmon.
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