salmon

Career

Employment opportunity: Quantitative Fisheries Ecologist (permanent full-time position)

2022-04-082022-06-02

Raincoast Conservation Foundation is looking to bring a quantitative ecologist, biologist, biostatistician or fisheries analyst onto our salmon team to advance the fisheries work we undertake in support of wild salmon recovery, coastal ecosystems and wildlife beneficiaries of salmon.

Conservation Foundation

A look back on our impact in 2020

2021-04-182021-11-12

A look back on our impacts in 2020.

Underwater photo of two sockeye salmon swimming with stones underneath then and trees and mountain in background.

Events

Next Coastal Insights episode: Salmon as a keystone species

2021-03-092021-10-22

Next Coastal Insights session about how to protect salmon in crisis.

River with grass in foreground and person standing in background holding research equipment in background with blue and cloudy sky.

Fraser River

Chinook salmon reliance on the Fraser Estuary

2021-01-192021-10-01

Declining Chinook salmon population in the Fraser River shows need to restore this estuary.

A brown grizzly bear seen head above water swimming in green water

Conservation Foundation

Thank you for your support in 2020

2020-12-312021-01-21

As 2020 closes and we reflect on the year, please accept our thanks and gratitude for your support, in whatever form it takes.

Fraser River

Reconnecting Fraser Estuary salmon habitat

2020-12-292020-12-25

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, our research and restoration efforts in the Fraser River Estuary continued through 2020.

An aerial view of the Fraser estuary with a city and mountains in the background.

Fraser River

Seven years in the Lower Fraser

2020-12-292020-12-25

In 2014, Raincoast initiated its work in the Lower Fraser River.

Fraser River

Year five in the Fraser River Estuary

2020-12-272021-01-04

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, our research and restoration efforts in the Fraser River Estuary continued through 2020.

Salmon pictured underwater in murky green

Raincoast research

Raincoast in the Watersheds 2020 forum

2020-10-152020-12-02

Watersheds Forum 2020 is a virtual gathering that brings together a diverse community of water leaders.

Fraser River

Crucial time for wild salmon

2020-09-262020-10-01

This is a crucial time for wild salmon that depend on the Fraser River.

Underwater shades of blue ranging to black with salmon fish, bodies spreading out hurtling towards camera

Fraser River

The Narwhal article outlines reasons for Fraser river salmon decline

2020-08-232020-09-01

The Narwhal released an article this week entitled ‘Four reasons 2020 is set to see the lowest Fraser River sockeye salmon return on record’ written by Stephanie Wood.

Awesome aerial photograph of salmon moving towards ocean. Sockeye and chinook salmon are visible as clumps of small streaks in red and black over clear water and above cream white sand on river bottom. A narrow swath of blue cuts across the top of the photograph edging a green border with the sand.

Conservation Foundation

Support investments in nature and biodiversity

2020-08-122020-08-22

As we all work to emerge from the covid-19 pandemic, 235 organizations, including Raincoast and many of you signed a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau to emphasize that investments in nature and biodiversity can create jobs and contribute to an economic recovery and a sustainable future.

Black bear on all fours walks on rocks beside water with blurred forest background

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Thanks to everyone who made our first season of Coastal Insight a success

2020-07-212020-07-28

We just wrapped up our 11th episode of Coastal Insights, a live and interactive online learning program.

Two salmon visible side by side swimming up a dark yellow green stream

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

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

2020-07-142020-07-30

This week with Coastal Insights you can learn about our inspiring and transformative Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program.

Part 2 of Wild salmon surrounds on urban salmon episode 6 of Coastal Insights.

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Part 2 of ‘Wild salmon surrounds us’ on urban salmon S1 E6

2020-06-032020-09-04

Fernando Lessa will takes viewers on a visual tour into our urban neighborhoods to discover the many wild salmon and their habitats living right next door to our homes.

Fraser River

Reject Terminal 2 expansion

2020-05-272020-09-05

The Port of Vancouver is proposing to almost double the size of their existing terminal, Deltaport Terminal, in the Fraser Estuary.

A group of people visible small in the distance, standing on a rocky outcrop covered in red grass, with dark grey water beside the banks and fall coloured trees in the background.

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Raincoast’s education program goes live

2020-05-122020-06-09

Our new free education program Coastal Insights is offered in May and June every Wednesday at 1pm.

Grizzly bear walks on shallow water and rocks with salmon caught in its mouth, backgrounded by green trees.

Raincoast research

Monitoring bears in Wuikinuxv

2020-05-082020-05-20

Megan Adams shares about the work the lab usually does in Wuikinuxv territory.

An older person's hands hold an intertidal creature while a youth touches it with one finger

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Raincoast’s Emerging Stewards program

2020-03-122020-03-22

Raincoast’s Emerging Stewards program is designed to help inspire a new generation of conservation leaders in the Salish Sea. Recently...

Under green water, three or four Chinook salmon swim together

Raincoast research

Report just released: Toward a Vision for Salmon Habitat in the Lower Fraser River

2020-03-042020-03-22

Swimming toward a vision for salmon in the lower Fraser River - today we released our Toward a Vision for Salmon Habitat in the Lower Fraser report. From community...

Sparrow sits among the white rigging of a boat

Achiever

Raincoast Conservation Foundation and Achiever in the Great Bear Rainforest

2020-01-272020-02-14

A grizzly bears strolls an estuary walled by granite cliffs down which countless waterfalls drop hundreds of feet, as if straight from the clouds. The jet black dorsal fins...

A pod of orcas with their backs and tail fins visible in blue ocean raising misty spray while the forested shore is visible behind.

Marine mammals

Orcas in danger of extinction, but recovery is possible

2020-01-232020-02-13

For over 10 years, Raincoast has been using science, public education and the courts to try and protect Canada’s endangered population of salmon-eating Southern Resident killer whales. With their salmon stocks in decline...

Fraser River

A vision for the coast, as we head into 2020

2019-12-272019-12-29

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. …

Close up photograph of an orca whale, white and black face and black body partially out of green water.

Marine mammals

Southern Residents and recovery

2019-12-262019-12-26

In 2019, we saw the most significant threat reduction measures the Canadian government has taken to date to support recovery of Southern Resident killer whales. Through coordinated legal, scientific, and public outreach strategies, and government negotiations, Raincoast and our …

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