Raincoast’s recently published report on BC’s salmon stocks says new ways of managing Pacific salmon must be implemented if wild salmon, and the food web that depends on salmon, are to remain on BC’s central and north coasts. The report brings together conservation and academic interests to examine the issues surrounding the management of wild salmon.

View part 1 of the report in .PDF
(Includes all up to chapter 2)
View part 2 of the report in .PDF
(Includes chapter 3 and above)

Chris Genovali
Executive Director, Raincoast
May 2009
Last fall I visited numerous watersheds in the Great Bear Rainforest where an unnatural silence filled the air due to the lack of returning salmon. In many systems not a single bear, wolf or even eagle was to be seen. When I did finally see grizzly bears, what I witnessed was [...]