‘Very hopeful’: Syilx Okanagan keep eyes and ears out as sockeye salmon return to Upper Columbia

On a sunny Sept. 18 in Revelstoke, Patrick Zubick clambered out onto an uprooted tree off the Illecillewaet River and hoisted out a brick with a small wired device inside. A fisheries biologist for the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) — the tribal council of the Syilx Okanagan Nation — Zubick drove three-and-a-half hours from Castlegar to check on a network of underwater acoustic monitoring…

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