There are not many places in the world where you can catch sockeye salmon hundreds of kilometres from the ocean, in a desert valley, during the hottest weeks of summer. The Okanagan is one of them. The fish that return here every year, called sc̓win in nsyilxcən (the language of the syilx Okanagan people), make one of the longest freshwater migrations of any sockeye population on the Pacific coast. It is also one of the most carefully managed fisheries we know of.