Salmon Arm Observer, October 10, 2014

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Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 25 No. 41 October 10, 2014

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Some 3.5 million sockeye are expected to spawn in the Adams River, and the majority of them will be arriving this weekend. “There’s lots of fish, with more coming,” said Stu Cartwright, acting area director of the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans for the B.C. Interior, on Wednesday. “The peak should be happening now.” Sockeye that are viewed from the new viewing platform are waiting to get into the spawning grounds. “It’s like cabs at the airport; the line can be pretty long on some days and faster on others,” he says. “We don’t know what the magic is that has them go into the river.” As to recent complaints from some visitors that while they are not allowed to go in or near the river at Roderick Haig-Brown Park while people are fishing on the other shore, Cartwright says the anglers are engaged in a legal catch-and-release trout fishery on the gravel banks. As of Oct. 1, the Fraser River Panel estimated there were in the neighbourhood of 19.6 million salmon overall in the Fraser River. “Of that number, 9.6 million are considered to be late sockeye; some of them will go to the Adams River and Shuswap Lake,” he said. “After catch and all other fisheries, we’re expecting about 3.5 million on the Adams.” Cartwright acknowledges the dominant run in See New platform on page A4

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