Dinner time!It’s fishing season again at Brooks Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, but not for

Dinner time!It’s fishing season again at Brooks Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, but not for humans. People can fish the Brooks River, but they’re strictly prohibited from fishing the falls from June 15 to August 15 because all the best fishing spots are already taken by bears.Over a hundred Brown Bears fish on a 1.6 kilometer (1 mile) section of the Brooks River every year. The river is the site of the largest Sockeye Salmon run in the world. It’s additionally populated with Rainbow Trout and Arctic Char. Fish offer bears a relatively high-calorie food source to build up their fat stores for winter hibernation. Brown bears are normally solitary animals, but they become much more tolerant of each other when there is such a plentiful food source available.Katmai National Park in Alaska hosts a population of brown bears about 2,200 strong. Katmai is located on the northern Alaska Peninsula and is accessible only by plane or boat, which prevents the park from sustaining some of the damage other parks experience by being “over loved” and easy to access.If flying into a pristine wilderness isn’t in your budget, you can watch the bears in action by viewing a live webcam here: http://bit.ly/1l4L7WY. Not only can you watch them fishing, in some cases you’ll get to see them dining on their catch. Watching the salmon jumping up the small waterfall is pretty amazing as well.REPhoto Credit:Screen Shot from http://bit.ly/1l4L7WYReferences: http://1.usa.gov/1L5kufJhttps://www.nps.gov/katm/planyourvisit/fishing.htmhttp://bit.ly/2amfYk6 -- source link

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