Misty MacDuffee

Misty MacDuffee is a biologist with Raincoast's wild salmon program. She has spent over 20 years working in watersheds on BC’s coast advocating for the protection of salmon-based ecosystems. Misty’s work focuses on salmon management and the need to consider whales, bears and other wildlife within fisheries management. More about Misty.

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A bond through salmon, language and grandmothers
2020 June 52024 July 8
The book was produced to accompany the Royal BC Museum’s 2020 feature exhibition Orcas: Our Shared Future which, due to the pandemic, is rescheduled to now open in May 2021…
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Increasing salmon hatcheries could do more harm than good for Chinook and Southern Resident killer whales
2019 August 132024 July 8
Hatcheries have failed to protect or restore the old ages, big sizes, range of migration times and diversity of wild Chinook salmon. For Southern Residents to recover, the age structure and run timing of wild Chinook runs, along with abundance, need to be restored. This is not the objective of hatcheries…
Read More Increasing salmon hatcheries could do more harm than good for Chinook and Southern Resident killer whales
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Saving endangered whales: Strategies from above and below the 49th parallel
2019 July 162024 July 8
On May 10, the Canadian federal government announced its first wide-ranging measures to reduce the primary threats compromising survival of the salmon-eating Southern Resident killer whales reliant on the transboundary waters of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. Although federally listed as endangered in 2003 in Canada and 2005 in the US, little has happened…
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Ecological legacy of coastal B.C. hangs in the balance
2019 May 312024 July 8
One hundred years ago, whaling largely extirpated humpback and fin whales from the inside waters of the B.C. coast. As the federal government looks to codify a 35-year moratorium on oil-tanker traffic into law, these whale populations are recovering and returning to their historic feeding grounds…
Read More Ecological legacy of coastal B.C. hangs in the balance
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NEB recommends Trans Mountain proceed despite “significant adverse effects” to Southern Residents
2019 March 202024 July 8
The National Energy Board (NEB) has recommended that the Trans Mountain expansion project should proceed despite the “significant adverse effects” of oil tankers on the critically endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales. Although we disagree with the NEB’s conclusion, their review of the project effects on killer whales is forthright and portrays the severity of the current situation…
Read More NEB recommends Trans Mountain proceed despite “significant adverse effects” to Southern Residents
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No mitigation measures can protect Southern Resident killer whales from the noise of Trans Mountain’s tanker traffic
2019 February 222024 July 8
While we disagree with the NEB’s conclusion, we acknowledge that their review of the effects on killer whales accurately portrays the complexity and severity of the situation.
Read More No mitigation measures can protect Southern Resident killer whales from the noise of Trans Mountain’s tanker traffic
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Provincial Wild Salmon Secretariat needs a focus on habitat
2019 February 192024 October 8
In order to recover and sustainably manage depleted wild salmon populations, place-based management and the restoration of salmon watersheds is the best way forward given the changing environmental conditions that confront these fish and the value that British Columbians place on them.
Read More Provincial Wild Salmon Secretariat needs a focus on habitat
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Southern Resident killer whales need more than luck
2019 January 212024 July 8
The reality is that calves like Lucky only have a 40% chance of survival. More sobering still is the fact that no calves have survived in this population in the last three years. This is why we have stopped using images…
Read More Southern Resident killer whales need more than luck
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Chinook salmon, 74 killer whales, and the future of the Salish Sea
2018 December 182024 July 8
2018 closes with just 74 Southern Resident killer whales remaining in the world. You’ve been with us through a year of huge wins and some heartbreaking losses and it’s worth a recap as we close the year and prepare for 2019. January – With 76 Southern Residents remaining, Raincoast and partners petition the government to…
Read More Chinook salmon, 74 killer whales, and the future of the Salish Sea
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Southern Resident killer whales are on the precipice
2018 November 212024 July 8
The federal government recently announced its refusal to issue an emergency order, despite the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans’ recommendation to do so. Although we commend the ministers for recommending an emergency order be used, we are deeply disappointed that Cabinet rejected what we believe to be the best available tool to recover these whales…
Read More Southern Resident killer whales are on the precipice
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Fisheries closures needed for killer whales
2018 August 162024 July 8
The Southern Resident killer whale population needs your voice to demand that the new federal Fisheries Minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, issue an emergency order that also includes the following actions…
Read More Fisheries closures needed for killer whales
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Government declares “imminent threat” to survival of Southern Resident killer whales
2018 June 82024 July 8
Last week, the government announced fisheries closures in some key Southern Resident foraging areas. While welcome news, the measures only partially address our concerns over food availability and disturbance to endangered killer whales…
Read More Government declares “imminent threat” to survival of Southern Resident killer whales

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