"Whatever is going on in the ocean is basically being good to sockeye, " said Tweit.
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But unlike most salmon, which eat other fish, sockeye eat plankton, tiny shrimplike animals.
MSN: Record numbers of sockeye salmon return to Northwest - US news - Environment | NBC News
This year the stakes are especially high, with a record 18m sockeye salmon expected to return to Canada's Fraser River.
In the dining salon a four-person culinary team turns out such dishes as braised wild sockeye salmon with papaya salsa relish.
They eyeballed each ripple in the river, and then, without warning, violently pounced upon some unwitting sockeye for a morning snack.
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Throughout summer wild sockeye salmon, chanterelle mushrooms and salmonberries appear on menus.
They also offer fresh sockeye from Alaska and the rare Ivory King or white salmon, accounting for less than one percent of the variety.
Though poor ocean conditions have been blamed for a nosedive in chinook salmon in Alaska this year, sockeye have done well, not only in the Columbia, but in Canadian and Alaskan rivers as well.
MSN: Record numbers of sockeye salmon return to Northwest - US news - Environment | NBC News
They have seasonal access to wild-caught (better than farmed) King salmon (larger and more desirable than sockeye) from the Columbia River (one of the greatest salmon locales), and the piece I had, cooked on an alder wood plank, was THE best salmon I have ever tasted.
Ritchie Graves, a NOAA Fisheries Service biologist who makes sure federally owned dams are living up to their Endangered Species Act obligations not to kill too many salmon, said the survival rate for young salmon swimming downstream to the ocean has been higher than ever the past three years, hitting about 50 percent for sockeye.
MSN: Record numbers of sockeye salmon return to Northwest - US news - Environment | NBC News
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