Gulls wheel overhead.
Herring dimple near kelpbeds hugged by basaltic cliffs. It is a green and grey world as early morning mist drifts through Douglas Fir and Hemlock forests jutting from the water's edge. In a swirling back eddy fins a prize sought by tyro and seasoned anglers, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha , the Chinook Salmon. Chinooks are the largest of the six species of Pacific Ocean salmon, drawing fishermen worldwide to the protected saltwater at Campbell River , a fishing and forest products community of 17,000 on the eastern side of British Columbia's Vancouver Island. Feeding in the ocean currents as far away as Alaska , Oregon and California, they grow big.