Outdoor Idaho: Idaho's Salmon - PBS

Salmon once flooded Idaho's rivers and streams by the millions. An army of migrating fish hell-bent on returning to the place of their origin. Chinook, Coho, Sockeye . . . all unique species, sharing a migratory life cycle that rivals that of any animal on the planet.

Idaho's history is rich with salmon. The fish provide the essential life-giving marine elements to mountains situated hundreds of miles from the coast. But today they are all but gone, their abundance lost to human needs and excess.

Outdoor Idaho explores the decline of Idaho's remarkable salmon and what's being done to bring them back from the brink of extinction.

More than a hundred years ago, tens of thousands of salmon swam the rivers in Idaho. Completing their life journey from the ocean and back to start the next generation of migrating chinook and sockeye. Today, we have only a few thousand salmon and we spend millions to keep them alive. Outdoor Idaho explores what happened to all those fish and whats being done to bring them back.