Pacific salmon are foundationally important to Canada’s wildlife, food security, cultures, and economy. Yet, salmon catches have declined precipitously in the last two decades despite millions of dollars invested annually in hatcheries. This past May, Raincoast authors called on the …
This week is the final webinar of our Coastal Insights Online Learning program, but keep your eyes out for Wolf School, our next series of educational webinars!
You can watch all past episodes on our YouTube channel.
This week …
Our Coastal Insights Online Education program is now on it’s 6th episode.
Next week’s episode will focus on urban salmon with Fernando Lessa, author, photographer and outdoor storyteller.
Fernando Lessa will take viewers on a virtual tour into our urban …
After three years researching how juvenile salmon use the Fraser estuary, we began physical habitat restoration to improve their access into habitats that support them.
The Steveston Jetty is only one of the many structures dividing the Fraser estuary, altering …
Our new report Toward a Vision for Salmon Habitat in the Lower Fraser River sets bold recommendations to address the loss of salmon habitat that has been identified as a key factor in the crisis many recognize for Fraser River …
Breaking News: The Supreme Court of Canada announced today that it will not hear a set of legal challenges to the federal government’s re-approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline project, including our case with Ecojustice and Living Oceans aimed at …
The Port of Vancouver is proposing to expand the existing terminal at Deltaport doubling its capacity to offload containers through the creation of a 108-hectare berth in the heart of the Fraser River estuary at Roberts Bank.
If completed the …
In March of 2019, we began phase one of an ambitious habitat restoration project in the Fraser River Estuary. ⠀
We created three 50m breaches in the Steveston Jetty to allow juvenile salmon access to marshy habitat. ⠀
To sample …
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. …
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 …
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 …
The success continues for our Fraser Connectivity Project. We had another great day surveying our jetty breaches today.
We caught over 100 juvenile salmon both chum and Chinook moving through our east breach in just two hours. It feels so …
Taking the lab to the field…
@raincoastconservation #pseclab #research #Chinook…
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! 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 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 …
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 …