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Millions of bright red sockeye are heading to Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park to spawn+ } C) Z5 S) U0 m# `/ d
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CBC News Posted: Oct 06, 2014 9:13 AM PT| Last Updated: Oct 07, 2014 8:52 AM PT / M: S \* [ P7 m! G
5 [8 W8 S4 |; p6 S; N8 DOver 200,000 people are expected to turn out over the next three weeks to watch one of the most spectacular displays of natural beauty in the world.8 T5 x' h/ H5 n2 B+ y0 \
8 Y. t8 o% O; Y xEvery four years millions of bright red sockeye salmon return to the Adams River, near Kamloops, B.C., turning the shallow water crimson with spawning fish.
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The Adams River sockeye run is the largest in the world. (CBC)6 G& J% S& Z8 J; Y# K
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Usually the salmon return during the first three weeks of October with Thanksgiving being the peak weekend.
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Jeremy Heighton, the event coordinator with the Adams River Salmon Society, says the salmon were a bit late in arriving, but they are there now., D* i) M. h' N. z1 J
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The 2014 Salute to the Sockeye festival began Friday at Roderick Haig Brown Provincial Park north east of Kamloops.The festival runs until Oct 26.9 e0 ] x O `; H' f4 D, m% D, u
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