Sockeye Salmon - Kokanee spawning in Sony HD

Locals know that the best spot for seeing Sockeye Salmon - land locked kokanee salmon spawning in the Okanagan is near Peachland in Trepanier Creek.
We went and checked Mission Creek and its's man made spawning channel and found fewer and smaller fish, with the man made appearance overwhelming.
I wonder why Kelowna couldn't just let the fish spawn in Mission Creek as the Koanee have for eons before white man decided that we could improve on nature.

Some sockeye live and reproduce in lakes and are called "kokanee", a word in the Okanagan language for this kind of fish. They are much smaller than the ones that go to the ocean and are rarely over 350 millimetres (14 in) long. In Okanagan Lake and many others there are two kinds of kokanee populations - one spawns in streams and one spawns in the lake near the shore. As an aside, the Kokanee Glacier gets its name from Kokanee Creek, which enters Kootenay Lake near Nelson, British Columbia.
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[BuschTukkerMan]

Awsome video again Cindy & Joe:)

Those salmons look so beautiful and red.

They are probably taste very good, yumie ahaa:)

[JCVdude]

@BuschTukkerMan Thx, NO...bu the time they make it up the rivers, they get banged around on rocks so much that it's like a tenderizer...although bears seem to like it and eat lots to fatten up and make it through the winter.

[salmondiver101]

Even minor small dams change the water chemistry, flow of nutrients, and deposition of sediment. A stream is a living flowing blood vessel of the earth. Put a dam or minor man-made structure in there and there will be a change. Such as a blood clot in a blood vessel. The change might not seem great to us, but it is for the creatures that live in the water.

[MrGrundy65]

the reason why mission creek was made like that is because over time the river sides got wider and shallow, naturally destroying the spawning cycle,

but special spawning ducts/lanes a little bit like a spawning latter had bin built to allow spawning fish to make it up river with ease i bet it helps out when the creek is really dry from hot summers.