Sockeye Salmon in Twizel - The only self-sustaining population in the Southern Hemisphere

This is the only self-sustaining population of the sockeye salmon in the Southern Hemisphere. You can enjoy their spectacular view at the Twizel State Highway 8 bridge just after passing the Twizel town centre.
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[@zhouyu9971]

This is very good video

[@SurgeonFishing]

I'm glad you like it

[@zhouyu9971]

@@SurgeonFishing I like this more than other fishing videos as sockeye salmon migration is more to be a natural attraction rather than fishing targets. It has more value than just the fish, especially for my work, tourism

[@mauricebrown9094]

I did like this video and it's information. Thank you. I have never heard of the Sockeye Salmon called a " Red Salmon" before. This seems to me how New Zealanders change the name of things to suit themselves. Stick with the name Sockeye Please. It is similar to call a tree and " Oregon Tree " but it is actually Douglas Fur..

[@dylanhood6089]

We call them red salmon here and that's that,everybody in the whole of New Zealand know them as red salmon so let it be known if you travel to New Zealand you will call them red salmon please.

[@billsmith5109]

@@dylanhood6089 Red salmon is a less common name now in the Pacific Northwest, although still found, or understood more commonly in B.C. and Alaska. While we mostly call them sockeye now, it’s one of those things you might use to identify newcomers from people whose relatives lived here in the 1800’s or before. During the decades when most commercially caught salmon was canned, red was the most commonly used name for sockeye in that trade.
Sockeye are known to easily develop landlocked strains, chinook(king) and coho (silver), rarely. Again, in the PNW landlocked sockeye are usually called Kokanee, although in western Washington for some odd reason they’re sometimes locally called silvers. Other used names and salmon, chum (dog) and pinks (humpies or humpbacked). Hmm. Maybe I hear humpies about as often as pink. I guess I capitalized kokanee as as a written word I most often see it on a beer label.
Of course before English became the most common language in the PNW there were lots of local names.
I see Port Blakely on their NZ website calls it Douglas-fir. I’d give PB credibility for knowing that particular tree in both hemispheres. The biologists seem to like the hyphen. To them supposedly it makes clear that you recognize it is not a true fir. Not being a biologist I don’t really care, and usually call it Doug fir. In the American Mid-West, think Illinois etc., Doug fir lumber once upon a time was sold as Oregon pine. I have a conjecture as to why, but without evidence I’ll keep that to myself.