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  • Dave Scott, sporting blue green hair, holds up a juvenile salmon in a measuring device, in the Fraser Estuary.
    Raincoast Radio

    Episode 8: Salmon 101 with Allison Dennert and Dave Scott

    2025 September 162025 September 23

    Two Raincoast salmon researchers join Auston Chhor to discuss salmon life cycles, challenges, the connection between fish and land, hard hats, habitat restoration, collaborating with municipalities on urban salmon, and working in the Fraser River estuary.

    Read More Episode 8: Salmon 101 with Allison Dennert and Dave ScottContinue

  • Chum swimming along the rocky bottom of a river.
    Investigate and inform

    Fishy business: the technicalities of fisheries management planning

    2024 April 152024 December 13

    Raincoast submits our annual feedback to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on salmon management.

    Read More Fishy business: the technicalities of fisheries management planningContinue

  • Hatchery fish coming out of a tube into blue water.
    Investigate and inform

    More hatchery salmon cannot help endangered killer whales

    2024 February 152024 December 13

    Raincoast argues that the Puget Sound hatchery program does little to solve the prey problem for Southern Residents.

    Read More More hatchery salmon cannot help endangered killer whalesContinue

  • Folks from Ikaarvik accepting their Raincoast Ocean Science Award.
    Events

    The inaugural 2023 Raincoast Ocean Science Awards 

    2023 November 72024 July 8

    The evening was attended by many inspiring change makers and during the evening, we distributed four awards to outstanding individuals and organizations.

    Read More The inaugural 2023 Raincoast Ocean Science Awards Continue

  • Three killer whales swimming near the surface of the water.
    Scientific literature

    Letter in Science identifies the contradiction between protecting economic growth and biodiversity in Canada’s Fraser River Estuary 

    2023 July 52024 October 23

    The letter, asking whether Canada will permit killer whale extinction, identifies Canada’s conflicting aspirations and obligations to protect biodiversity while continuing to permit megaprojects that destroy the critical habitat of threatened and endangered species.

    Read More Letter in Science identifies the contradiction between protecting economic growth and biodiversity in Canada’s Fraser River Estuary Continue

  • Grizzly bear in a river with a salmon in its mouth.
    Investigate and inform

    The inertia of broken paradigms

    2023 June 152024 October 8

    In fisheries management, each population has what’s called a “maximum sustainable yield.”

    Read More The inertia of broken paradigmsContinue

  • Stunning landscape on the shores of the Fraser River with the coastal mountains looming in the background.
    Investigate and inform

    Reflecting on the recent IPCC report and what we can do

    2023 April 122024 July 8

    Though the conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change report are grim, protecting and restoring natural ecosystems is an effective step.

    Read More Reflecting on the recent IPCC report and what we can doContinue

  • Two people biking in front of some trees.
    In the media

    Proposed green waste facility in burnaby axed after public outcry and grassroots organizing

    2023 March 222024 December 16

    The battle over the location of Burnaby’s Green Recycling and Organics (GRO) facility has been framed as a choice between climate progress and habitat preservation, when in fact its ability to advance climate progress is weak at best.

    Read More Proposed green waste facility in burnaby axed after public outcry and grassroots organizingContinue

  • Allison Dennert standing on a beach in front of the ocean on a cloudy day. She is wearing a mustard coloured jacket.
    Conservation updates

    Meet Allison Dennert, Raincoast’s new Quantitative Salmon Ecologist

    2023 February 62024 July 8

    Allison Dennert has joined our Wild Salmon Program team as a Quantitative Salmon Ecologist.

    Read More Meet Allison Dennert, Raincoast’s new Quantitative Salmon EcologistContinue

  • Douglas aster - a purple flower with green leaves.
    Scientific literature

    New research proves that nutrients from the sea can increase terrestrial plant growth and reproduction

    2023 January 252025 September 16

    Newly published research from Simon Fraser University shows that salmon and marine plants increase both growth and reproduction in terrestrial plants.

    Read More New research proves that nutrients from the sea can increase terrestrial plant growth and reproductionContinue

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