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OCTOBER 5, 2017
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Caravan follows salmon into Kamloops The Wild Salmon Caravan will launch its third annual journey with a Rainbow Parade in Vancouver before making several stops, including one in Kamloops on Wednesday, Oct. 11, as it follows wild salmon from the Salish Seas to their traditional spawning grounds. This year the Caravan will be led by Salish matriarchs from Indigenous communities along the route from Vancouver to the Adams River east of Kamloops. Along its journey, the Caravan will hold festive parades, ceremonies, traditional feasts, and music in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Merritt, Kamloops, and Chase. The Caravan works with Indigenous peoples, local community groups, food systems networks, artists, and environmental health organizations to bring people together as it follows wild salmon home to some of the world’s best freshwater spawning grounds in local streams, lakes, and rivers. “Wild salmon are our most important Indigenous food and [a] cultural and ecological keystone species in the forests, fields, and waterways,” said Secwepemc matriarch Bernice Heather in a press release. “We invite everyone to come out in full colour to show your love and appreciation for wild salmon as we travel from the Salish Seas to Secwepemcul’ecw – the land where the water flows from the highest mountains, through the rivers on its way to the ocean.” Students in School District No. 73 are very familiar with the unique life cycle of Pacific salmon, with hundreds traveling to nearby Adams River every year to witness the salmon spawning. The life cycle of Pacific salmon typically begins in high-altitude lakes and rivers, which
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Two schoolchildren and their tour guide pose on the viewing platform over the Adams River, where thousands of salmon are expected to return to spawn in early October. Photo via Adams River Salmon Society Facebook. are abundant in the Kamloops area, where adult salmon lay their eggs in small gravel nests called redds. After the eggs hatch, the young fish live in the same area they were born until they are ready to migrate and start making their way to the ocean. They then grow to maturity in the saltwater before returning to the same body of water in which they were born to lay eggs of their own and
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begin a new generation before dying. Only one out of every 4,000 eggs laid in the Adams River lives to return as a spawning adult. The annual salmon run is one of nature’s truly captivating and unique events, as thousands, and sometimes millions, of Sockeye, Pink, Chinook, and Coho salmon return to
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