Throughout the North Pacific, pink salmon are the most abundant salmon species, comprising 70% of all the Pacific salmon.

In Montana, when the sun is shining and the water runs cool and clean, the unseen engineers of waterways start the process of hatching.

The Salute to the Sockeye Festival, which takes place in a dominant year of the sockeye salmon cycle, every four years, is running daily until Oct. 23, according to the Adams River Salmon Society.