Friday, September 17, 2010

Seattle clings to its struggling summer sockeye

The magic of salmon transfixes another generation, as kids crowd the fish windows at Seattle's Hiram M. Chittenden Locks to watch sockeye and chinook returning home from their great pastures of the sea. The city's love affair with its iconic salmon is being tested through the dwindling Lake Washington sockeye run and much-debated efforts to sustain it.