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Getting the next generation of Salish Sea stewards back to school

Published on 2017 09 20 | by Ross Dixon | in Notes from the Field

As scientists we learn from each other, our Indigenous partners, the wildlife we study and the youth we engage. For over 15 years, as guests of the Heiltsuk Nation, Raincoast staff scientists have supported the development of local youth as future stewards of the environment at a yearly kids camp…

Celebrating wild salmon conservation with Michael Snyder, April Bencze and guests

Published on 2017 09 08 | by Raincoast | in Events

A Raincoast scientist walks through the tall grass to get to the shores of the Lower Fraser for salmon testing.

Join us September 13^th at Patagonia Vancouver for food, music, photography and stories that celebrate the foundation of the coast. Music by Rick Buckman Coe. Stories by April Bencze. Photos and more by Michael Snyder ….

Chris Darimont explains “achievement” and hunter satisfactions in carnivore hunting

Published on 2017 09 06 | by Raincoast | in Audio

A black bear stares out from the intertidal zone on the BC coast.

On August 29, Dr. Chris Darimont joined Pamela McCall on CFAX 1070. They discussed new research that can help shed light on what satisfies hunters and some of the implications for carnivore hunting in BC…

New research gives insight into the minds of hunters

Published on 2017 09 05 | by Chris Darimont | in For the coast

A grizzly bear sits down in the shallow water on the BC Coast.

Research from Raincoast and UVic has shed new light on what satisfies hunters. Reporting in the Wildlife Society Bulletin, we found that appreciation of nature and affiliation are common, but less pronounced ‘satisfactions’ expressed by hunters.

How a Dutchman found himself knee-deep in Fraser River mud

Published on 2017 08 31 | by Wiet van Bragt | in Notes from the Field

Misty MacDuffee and Wiet van Bragt survey the Fraser River in the lower mainland.

We used several techniques to catch the tiny salmon. We purse seined for them on the flats of the estuary in Georgia Strait, we beach seined along the shoreline of the river delta, and we set up fyke nets in the side channels of the river mouth…

Alaskans close fisheries to protect BC Chinook salmon, while Canada fishes on

Published on | by Misty MacDuffee & Greg Taylor | in Commentary

Measuring a Chinook salmon on the lower Fraser river.

There are just as many warning signs that Chinook (spring) salmon in British Columbia are also returning in poor numbers. So why does Canada take a much greater risk with its salmon fisheries than Alaska? Fisheries on the Nass, Skeena and Fraser Rivers…

Research: online hunting forums identify achievement as prominent among multiple satisfactions

Published on 2017 08 30 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature

Achievement is the kind of satisfaction that is most prominent for hunters.

Researchers from the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the University of Victoria have shed new light on what satisfies hunters. Reporting in the peer-reviewed journal Wildlife Society Bulletin, they found that the dominant satisfaction expressed in online hunting stories is achievement…

Raincoast executive director joins CBC’s BC Almanac to talk about the new grizzly bear hunting ban policy announcement

Published on 2017 08 26 | by Raincoast | in Audio

Chris Genovali: let's end the hunting of large carnivores in BC.

Last week Chris Genovali joined CBC’s BC Almanac to talk about the NDP announcement to ban grizzly bear hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest. BC Almanac also interviewed Andrew Weaver and Jesse Zeeman of the BC Wildlife Federation about the proposed…

Canada’s Wild Salmon Policy: an assessment of conservation progress in British Columbia

Published on 2017 08 24 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature

Figures from a research paper an assessing conservation progress in British Columbia

This paper, co-authored by two Raincoast biologists, finds that Canada’s Wild Salmon Policy has failed to improve the conservation of Pacific salmon since its adoption in 2005…