14 DAY TRIAL // Environmentalists will be glad to hear that sockeye salmons seem to have found a way of successfully making it back to their breeding spaces, in spite of people's building several dams on their aquatic “highways.”
Thus, recent reports indicate that about 400,000 representatives of this species are expected to soon arrive in Northwest's Columbia Basin.
Although their turning up in such numbers wouldn't have made such a big impression on conservationists before the year 1938, when the Bonneville Dam outside Portland was built, said green-heads are now overjoyed at the news.
More so given the fact that since the aforementioned year, an average of only 38,000 such fish completed this journey each year.
Apparently, having so many sockeye salmons come here to breed is a result of improved dam operations and of favorable ocean conditions.