State sees record-breaking year for sockeye salmon

Washington is seeing a record-breaking sockeye salmon run this year despite a July heatwave that threatened a kill-off in the Okanogan River. By the numbers: Nearly 756,000 sockeye were recorded over the Bonneville Dam as of this week, far above the 10-year-average of 329,570, according to the Fish Passage Center. More than 700,000 sockeye were counted at the Dalles Dam and 663,000 at the John Day Dam this year compared with 295,000 and 282,000,...