The river hosts several seasonal salmon runs including, during the peak summer season, part of the largest sockeye salmon migration in the world.
Another activity that students participate in is the trip to the nimbus fish hatchery where students observe the final stages of salmon migration.
Features the first of three reports from Alaska following the sockeye salmon migration.
To the Plateau First Nations, salmon migration was an important time.
However many biologists claim that the river was permanently altered and the salmon migration would forever remain disturbed by the slide.
The entire basin is an important salmon migration and spawning area.
It impounds little water and does not impede salmon migrations.
Prior to its removal, the dam posed a barrier to salmon migration.
Everything from salmon migration to forest fires can affect current and future power prices.
The official start of the salmon migration to the sea, about 800 miles, began April 15.