The provincial and federal governments, along with affected First Nations, are assessing how to move salmon runs above the massive July 31 landslide that blocked the Chilcotin River a few kilometers upstream from where it meets the Fraser River, near Williams Lake, B.C. Authorities are worried debris blockage may impede the ability of salmon and […]
For decades, logging and commercial fishing have sustained Port Renfrew, a small community along a major adult salmon migration route in the Juan de Fuca Strait. As commercial fishing declined, the community pivoted to recreational fisheries and is now locked in a David and Goliath struggle with the federal government, according to local business leaders. […]
A little-known invasive species has been spreading along B.C.’s coast since 1998, and for the most part the invasion has gone undetected. “I have seen more than 10,000 Green crabs pulled out of critical juvenile salmon habitat in the Cypre River estuary, in Ahousaht territory, in one day using only 40 traps,” said Crysta Stubbs, […]
Thirty years ago, Coho salmon vacated Georgia Strait and did not return in substantial numbers until this spring. Their disappearance is still a mystery. As is their resurgence. “We have not found good correlates to explain why they suddenly started exiting the Strait at much higher rates, no clear links with things like herring abundance […]
