The Sockeye salmon return to the Fraser River. With an estimated 25-million sockeye expected, this year’s Fraser River run could be the strongest on the river since 1913.
The bounty is especially welcome after a disastrous 2009 season when a little more than one million salmon made their way back to the river. A 32-hour commercial fishery on the river started at noon on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. It will be followed with an aboriginal fishery over the weekend of August 28/29. The tidal sport fishery remains open until September 19th.
Fraser River Sockeye | Part One | Aug 29, 2010
Raw H.264 video shot at 720p60 with the T2i in Automatic mode.
For historical insight into the importance of Fraser River Sockeye, and all Pacific salmon, to people of B.C….
Fishing Around the Law: The Pacific Salmon Management System as a “Structural Infringement” of Aboriginal Rights
AUTHORS: Emily Walter, R. Michael M’Gonigle and Céleste McKay
http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/harris/Gladstone/Text/Fishing%20Around%20the%20Law.htm