A couple weekends ago, my class went on a field trip east from Prince Rupert to explore some of the salmon enhancement and management facilities in the Skeena River system. In Kitwanga, the Gitanyow use a counting fence to track movement of salmon upriver, in Moricetown, a tag and re-capture program is in place, and at Fulton River, there is a massive spawning channel for sockeye. Never have I seen so many sockeye in one place - except maybe at the Adams River when I was a kid. We were treated to an amazing sunrise over Babine Lake - that's one of my classmates trying his luck with his fly rod.
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