THE SOLOMON GULCH HATCHERY

This is the building you have to visit. The salmon hatcheries guarantee an amazing show. Every year, the eggs and seeds of adult salmon are collected here. After hatching, some 200 million fry are returned to their natural environment and released into the sea. A few years later they return. The salmon run is extraordinary. Thousands of them rush to lay their eggs. Seals are often there and sometimes bears, gorging themselves on salmon.