It’s always a thrill to be able to report a good news story. The Fraser sockeye salmon return this year is an amazing gift: at nearly 10 million fish by today’s estimate, this run has outperformed expectations more than three-fold. DFO says it’s the best return on this cycle of sockeye since 1997. We do not believe it to be a co-incidence that industrial salmon farming reached its peak at about that time; or that today’s returning fish are among the first that did not have to run the gauntlet of salmon farms early in their migration.