Baby Steps Towards Mark Selective Fishing Announced
What is Mark Selective Fishing (MSF)? Mark Selective Fishing is a fisheries management tool which allows retention of hatchery marked fish, while requiring wild unmarked ...
DFO Announces Confusing Additional Restrictions for 2023 to Protect Southern Resident Killer Whales
Today the Federal Ministers of Transport, Fisheries, Environment and Parks jointly announced 2023 measures for the protection of Southern Resident Killer Whales in addition to ...
Side Channels: Why Are They Important for Salmon Recovery
Salmon are complex creatures. There is a misconception that weak salmon runs will recover on their own if harvesters just stop fishing, a belief that ...
The 2023 SRKW Survey: Fishermen Need To Voice
Fisheries and Oceans has released an online survey which explains proposed 2023 management actions to conserve and protect Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW). The proposals ...
BC Entrepreneur Modernizes Salmon Trap Technology
Peter Krahn, Genesis Environmental Sciences Vancouver’s Peter Krahn is a retired senior Environment Canada enforcement engineer, owner of Genesis Environmental Sciences, passionate Fraser ...
The Solution for Problem Seals, Sea Lions, and Salmon
Unless you’ve been living on another planet, you know that southern BC is going through an unprecedented drought. Stage 4 water restrictions are law in ...
What Happened to the 2022 Fraser River Sockeye Runs?
This is the question that many want answered once the last of the Fraser’s sockeye arrive on their spawning grounds. Based on early sockeye returns ...
The State of Salmon at the Big Bar Slide
Sockeye and other salmon species are now making their way past the location of the massive rockslide at Big Bar, near Lillooet, at a rate ...
2022 Sockeye Returns: BC Outlook & The Columbia River
Columbia River Sockeye Returns Making News In BC News of the largest Columbia River return of sockeye salmon since 1938 has piqued interest in BC, ...
Thornton Creek: A Small Community Hatchery With Big Goals
The Thornton Creek Hatchery is located near the northwest corner of Ucluelet Inlet, about as far out west coast as you can get. It was ...
