Sacramento Bee: A miraculous thing happens each fall in the Sacramento Valley, and its not the end of 100-degree weather: Salmon return to the areas rivers and creeks.
One hundred miles from the Pacific Ocean, the valley hosts one of the largest annual salmon spawning runs in America. More than 300,000 fall-run Chinook (or king) salmon are expected to return from the ocean to area creeks and rivers, mostly in October and November, to spawn in hatcheries or on their own in river gravels.
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