people come literally from all over the
world to be witness to this event of
incredible odds you know each female
brings four thousand eggs here from the
ocean and deposits them here in the
system and yet four years later we’re
lucky if we get two of those back is as
adults and it’s this incredible struggle
between life and death every single day
every four years these amazing animals
have returned to their birthplace many
cases within meters where they were born
but you know it’s sort of the end in the
beginning all the same time
the death of the salmon is the birth of
the child and the birth of the child you
know is dependent upon the death of the
adult before them they never meet
they never connect like so many other
animals do and so I think that when
people come here they come here to
witness that that moment of transition
and it’s a very powerful and poignant
story for people it’s really you know it
sounds like a cliche but really is a
miracle that they make it and
four out of four thousand or something
actually make it back is pretty
spectacular
when they go out to the ocean they go a
long ways these fish that are spawned up
and you know near the near the Rocky
Mountains up in the upper Fraser will go
you know several hundred kilometers over
a thousand kilometers out to the mouth
of the Fraser then up along the coast up
into the Gulf of Alaska so they’re
traveling several thousand kilometers in
their lives and then they come back and
so it’s a it’s a massive migration every
four years there’s this massive
population here which is what we’re in
now and then there’s a shadow year about
half as many is called a sub dominant
run and there’s two years of really
relative quiet but generally speaking
it’s evolved beyond this four year cycle
so 2009 we’ve got a lot of attention
because we had unexpectedly low returns
the total run size that year was about
1.5 million sockeye coming back to the
Fraser four years previous to that we
had in the order seven million so that
was a significant decline and raised
concerns where we’re at today obviously
looking at about nineteen point six or
nineteen point eight million coming back
to the Fraser and I would say things
perhaps looking a little better for
placer sockeye than people feared back
in 2009 their mother we used to see
returns like this on a regular basis
over a hundred years ago one thing that
we do know about Fraser Sakai’s they’re
being increasingly affected by climate
change we have in the Fraser River
increasing high water temperatures in
the summer and we have number of weeks
now in the in a lot of summers where the
water temperatures reach a lethal
threshold for salmon and that’s going to
increase as as the climate warms and as
the river system increasingly changes as
a result of that
we have this abundant planet that we all
share and when you look at the cosmos
and the universe is around us it’s an
anomaly it’s it’s it’s something so
unique that has come together from so
many thousands of potential disastrous
conditions and we have a responsibility
to care for it we have a responsibility
to be a part of it and we have a
responsibility to embrace what it
teaches us and I think when we do that
then we become part of the planet we
manage
world to be witness to this event of
incredible odds you know each female
brings four thousand eggs here from the
ocean and deposits them here in the
system and yet four years later we’re
lucky if we get two of those back is as
adults and it’s this incredible struggle
between life and death every single day
every four years these amazing animals
have returned to their birthplace many
cases within meters where they were born
but you know it’s sort of the end in the
beginning all the same time
the death of the salmon is the birth of
the child and the birth of the child you
know is dependent upon the death of the
adult before them they never meet
they never connect like so many other
animals do and so I think that when
people come here they come here to
witness that that moment of transition
and it’s a very powerful and poignant
story for people it’s really you know it
sounds like a cliche but really is a
miracle that they make it and
four out of four thousand or something
actually make it back is pretty
spectacular
when they go out to the ocean they go a
long ways these fish that are spawned up
and you know near the near the Rocky
Mountains up in the upper Fraser will go
you know several hundred kilometers over
a thousand kilometers out to the mouth
of the Fraser then up along the coast up
into the Gulf of Alaska so they’re
traveling several thousand kilometers in
their lives and then they come back and
so it’s a it’s a massive migration every
four years there’s this massive
population here which is what we’re in
now and then there’s a shadow year about
half as many is called a sub dominant
run and there’s two years of really
relative quiet but generally speaking
it’s evolved beyond this four year cycle
so 2009 we’ve got a lot of attention
because we had unexpectedly low returns
the total run size that year was about
1.5 million sockeye coming back to the
Fraser four years previous to that we
had in the order seven million so that
was a significant decline and raised
concerns where we’re at today obviously
looking at about nineteen point six or
nineteen point eight million coming back
to the Fraser and I would say things
perhaps looking a little better for
placer sockeye than people feared back
in 2009 their mother we used to see
returns like this on a regular basis
over a hundred years ago one thing that
we do know about Fraser Sakai’s they’re
being increasingly affected by climate
change we have in the Fraser River
increasing high water temperatures in
the summer and we have number of weeks
now in the in a lot of summers where the
water temperatures reach a lethal
threshold for salmon and that’s going to
increase as as the climate warms and as
the river system increasingly changes as
a result of that
we have this abundant planet that we all
share and when you look at the cosmos
and the universe is around us it’s an
anomaly it’s it’s it’s something so
unique that has come together from so
many thousands of potential disastrous
conditions and we have a responsibility
to care for it we have a responsibility
to be a part of it and we have a
responsibility to embrace what it
teaches us and I think when we do that
then we become part of the planet we
manage
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