Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Nearly 2,000 years ago, a catastrophic volcanic eruption in Alaska turned crystal-clear rivers into poisonous sludge. Faced with the destruction of their ancestral home, a resilient population of Sockeye salmon was forced back into the open ocean on a desperate, 6,000-mile quest for survival.

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