Predator is correct in that there are some river sockeye in all of our local rivers. However they are present in small numbers typically from a small handful to occassionally a couple hundred. Never in what would be called fishable numbers.

There is one school of thought that these rive sockeyes are the pioneering portion of the species. Genetically the river fish look much the same across broad geographic areas and the think is that if these pioneering fish find suitable habitats (i.e. a large lake system) they will colonize the water and a locally adopted population will develop.

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