For decades, salmon haven’t been able to travel through sq’awsitkÊ· (Okanagan River) into kɬúsxÌŒnítkÊ· (Okanagan Lake).
"What's the Okanagan without Okanagan Lake?" he said. "The possibility of saving any of this is important." Kokanee salmon are a land-locked subspecies of sockeye salmon found in the B.C. Interior.