
Chinook


The problem with hatcheries and hopes for wild salmon

Raincoast’s final webinar tomorrow on Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program

Raincoast’s online education program upcoming on urban salmon

Immediate success for salmon recovery at Steveston Jetty

Bold recommendations to help recover salmon habitat

The Supreme Court of Canada announced today that it will not hear a set of legal challenges to help the Southern Resident killer whales

Port of Vancouver expansion set to destroy estuary habitat

Ambitious habitat restoration project

A vision for the coast, as we head into 2020
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated and shared our end of year fundraising drive. We are grateful to be surrounded by people, businesses and organizations that share our vision and are willing to invest in our initiatives. …

Wild salmon – strength and resilience
Every year the situation for British Columbia’s wild salmon worsens. And every year the same actions are repeated by governments and society. We clearcut and pave their watersheds, dam and extract water from their rivers, pour toxins on the lands …

Hatcheries Failing Chinook
More salmon hatcheries will NOT help killer whales or chinook…
In B.C. and Washington State, fishery managers, legislators, the sport fishing industry and even the whale watching industry have advocated for increased production of hatchery chinook to “save” the critically …

Making a positive difference to salmon

PSEC Lab field work

Backgrounder: Emergency order under the Species at Risk Act
In May, the federal government concluded Southern Resident killer whales face imminent threats to their survival and recovery, requiring a response under the Species at Risk Act. Five organizations — the David Suzuki Foundation, Georgia Strait Alliance, the Natural Resources …

Another beauty day for sampling in the Fraser estuary
Another beauty day for sampling in the Fraser estuary! Here is a juvenile Chinook we captured in the eelgrass with deltaport in the background. Structures like the port causeway impact the natural migration pathways that juvenile salmon need to reach …

Fraser Connectivity Project team pulling the fyke net
Fraser Connectivity Project team pulling the fyke net this morning in the rain! This set up deployed is to sample on top of the high marsh to investigate juvenile salmon use of these habitats. Four months after we started juvenile …

80 stream type Chinook like this beauty…
Today was amazing! Caught more than 80 stream type Chinook like this beauty, first time ever catching these in large numbers!! Usually we catch ocean-type Chinook only a few months old but these stream type Chinook rear in freshwater for …