Valdez Alaska's Huge Pink Salmon Run 

This is low tide, the water will come up anywhere from 1 to 10+ feet and everything you see now will be underwater.

There are literally hundreds of millions of salmon in Alaska and Eastern Russia. Hell between the two countries the Fisheries Crews take over 200 million fish a year so a few dying at low tide is of no consequence. Every one of these salmon you see in this video was dead within the next few weeks it's how it works with Pacific salmon they always die when they spawn.

yes. you could take home more than you could possibly eat.

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DionysusAlS Don't believe the media hype and the lies perpetuated by environmental groups.

@@TicklerDude i think the concern is that they're contaminated with radioactive material. There are AK water samples recently analyzed that are affected by that event. I forget the exact location in Alaska, but it shouldn't be hard to find, the story was just a few months back, around the end of 2018, possibly very early 2019. ...got it. sample from waters near St Lawrence island, bering sea.

devon harach THEIR SWIMMING FOR THEIR KIDS LIFE BASICALLY. Their tryna swim up stream to spawn their eggs!

In washington where this was filmed the runs are even worse and you cant even fish for pink salmon

At that location, limit is 6/day per person. load up your freezer if you want. There are years where there are so many fish, the limits were raised to 12/day per person.

data loss stfu all salmon spawn even hatchery fish you dumb ass!

These are wild you dumb fuck!

People conserve and let them die! 22nd Century Advanced mindset!!!!!

Say what?? As an Alaska resident I can tell you this is pure BS. During the season which lasts from late March through October salmon was on the menu for residents 3 or 4 times a week. We catch our own fish. BTW, Pink Salmon are the low quality for canning. If you catch them and vook them fresh they are great eating. Chum Salmon, also called Dog Salmon are the lowest quality. Markets now call them Keta Salmon or Silver Bright Salmon in order to fool people into thinking they're getting something good. The native peoples feed them to their dogs. They are fairly good smoked, tho.

Are you kidding me?? Where did you hear that?? The people of Alaska and commercial fishermen harvest millions of pounds of salmon annually!!! They feed it to their sled dogs and use it for subsistence living.

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@@perduk1 seeing more canned coho in the past few years which is strange because i didn't think there was much of a commercial fishery for them. ...or maybe they come from another country, i've never picked up a can to check it out. Yeah, AK residents tend to be stuck on the reds, kings, and halibut, along with hunted game meats. When you're allowed to pick and choose, and can only eat so much, you go for what you like most. ...2 of my friends have developed a taste for pink salmon after years of the usual reds/silvers/kings.

Salmon die after they spawn. All of them. The government can't change that lol

Commercial boats do catch as many of those as they can. The fish you see here are only the ones that snuck past all the boats and their nets.

Let me go out in a limb and guess that you live in a large city somewhere in really have no idea how nature works! Not f****** dying for nothing where do you think those thousands and thousands of fish came from its from their parents that did the exact same thing ahead of them they always die when they do this there Pacific salmon they do not survive spawning!

Of course. They are spawning and then die. That's the cycle of a salmon.

digstravel33 the ones that are just lying on the sand, nowhere near the stream.

on the tidelands

wright gregson the stream will still reach its escapement goal anyway, I just wish there was more stream for the fish

Those culverts don't go anywhere good for fish. The other side of the culvert is basically a small body of water + ditches that go nowhere. The runoff you see coming out is mostly minor ground water, it's not a river system.. The barriers covering the culverts prevent thousands of fish from crossing the road where they'll die, rot in a marsh or in parking lot size pools of water. The whole area will smell.

No they don't there are literally hundreds of millions of them hell the annual take between the United States and Russia is over 200 million and The Creeks still look like this.