WATCH: Penticton fish count looks promising

PENTICTON — Sockeye and kokanee salmon are spawning at Penticton River Channel and the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) wants to know exactly how many.

Since 2003, about 11 million salmon fry have been released into the Penticton River Channel as part of the Skaha Lake reintroduction program.

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In the last three years, the ONA has been seeing the fruits of their labour.

The results have been so overwhelming that they have set up shop for the first time this year to count the number of salmon.

The sonar equipment  records the number of salmon, but only the tagged fish are picked up by radio signal.

So far a couple thousand salmon have passed by the channel.

ONA biologists believe more than 40,000 kokanees and 10,000 sockeyes will spawn there this season.