B-RUN:

That is good news! let me ask you this though; Is this the same strain of sockeye that returns to redfish lake? If it is, then it truly is a miracle. I remember watching a special on the redfish lake sockeye run and how they were looking for returns of SINGLE FISH! Seems to me there was a year or two where no females returned so they spawned the males and froze the milt to hopefully use later if and when more fish returned in order to preserve the genetic integrity of the run.

If this same run is up to a hundred and they can be left alone, and good river/ocean conditions persist.....I'm hopeful.

It's small numbers in the big picture but fighting back from 1 fish returns/extinction is encouraging. Now let's see how some of the other upper Columbia fish respond.