Spawning Sockeye Salmon - underwater footage [HD]

Spawning Sockeye Salmon - underwater footage [HD]. Just a short time after the Sockeye Salmon (kokanee) are in the streams sporting their crimson red color, they will all die.
That is their life cycle, just a few years of living, then returning to spawn in the river where their life started, spawning to ensure the survival of the species and after that death.
Watching these fish struggling up the current with determination I was left wondering do they know that when all is done this is their final curtain call?
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 (see Kokanee).
Music: Tashmika by HunterFoxz @ Looperman http://www.looperman.com/tracks_detail.php?tid=47007

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[salmondiver101]

This is truly amazing. You are so fortunate to witness these salmon events in Canada British Columbia. In California's Central Valley the salmon species have declined and diversity has dropped. Every year I see fewer and fewer salmon in the main salmon spawning creeks. Their decline has spiraled the native fish species to decline as well. They will go extinct where I'm at in half a century.

[JCVdude]

@salmondiver101 We really are fortunate. We have also seen declines in our land lock salmon that come up local streams. They are being affected by the pesticides used in the orchards/golf courses/ etc. that leech back into the lakes. Those in places of power have been horrendous stewards of our environments. :(

[tootnguyen2001]

Very Cool! Can you exlain the equipment that you used to get these shots?

[JCVdude]

@tootnguyen2001 We used the SONY HDR-XR550 and the SONY sport pack which the housing for the underwater filming.

[lightningbolt61]

If I was there I would just pick one out of the water and eat it for supper that same night:)

[kuku850]

@salmondiver101 we can't just stay here and talk, we must take action! Support hatcheries!!

[salmondiver101]

@JCVdude There has to be a new change in the way that those in power and ourselves look at Pacific salmon. What happened to California can happen in Canada. Dams in the central Valley have made the valley considerably drier due to no wintertime floods. I hope more people like you bring up salmon has a necessary species that must be protected and revived. Without them. The diversity inland and in the sea will plummet greatly.

[mollyanch]

Such lovely music to compliment these beautiful fish...such is life.. Thank you for sharing

[Anyone1130]

cool ! can you show breeding male pink salmon