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  • Pacific salmon swimming underwater along a creek bed.
    In the media | Investigate and inform

    What the Exxon Valdez anniversary has to do with Canada’s wild salmon

    2014 March 242024 July 8

    Misty MacDuffee & Chris Genovali / Huff Post
    March 24 marks the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill…

    Read More What the Exxon Valdez anniversary has to do with Canada’s wild salmonContinue

  • Pacific salmon swimming underwater along a creek bed.
    In the media | Investigate and inform

    Northern Gateway risks Canada’s wild Pacific salmon

    2014 March 102024 July 8

    Misty MacDuffee & Chris Genovali / Island Tides
    Consequences to Canada’s wild salmon from the Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project are not a risk worth taking…

    Read More Northern Gateway risks Canada’s wild Pacific salmonContinue

  • Embroiled: Volume 1, Salmon, Tankers and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Proposal
    Investigate and inform

    Embroiled: Salmon, tankers and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Proposal

    2013 December 172024 July 8

    New Report by Raincoast says Northern Gateway not worth the risk to BC’s wild salmon…

    Read More Embroiled: Salmon, tankers and the Enbridge Northern Gateway ProposalContinue

  • A fish in a brown envelope with the words salmon confidential.
    Events

    Salmon Confidential – Earth Day

    2013 April 152024 July 8

    Check out Salmon Confidential as part of the Earth Day celebrations April 23 at UVic’s Cinecenta. Shows at 7:00 pm and 9:15 pm…

    Read More Salmon Confidential – Earth DayContinue

  • Two brown bears playing in the water.
    Raincoast updates

    Protecting wildlife can sustain our future, too

    2012 April 222024 July 8

    Times Colonist
    Raincoast says despite the knowledge that many species depend on salmon, humans have never managed fisheries with wildlife in mind…

    Read More Protecting wildlife can sustain our future, tooContinue

  • Grizzly wades through water with salmon in its mouth
    Raincoast updates

    The bear necessities of the salmon fishery

    2012 April 202024 July 8

    Vancouver Sun

    As Earth Day approaches on Sunday our thoughts turn to two of the most iconic species in BC, wild salmon and grizzly bears, as well as their intertwined relationship and how the choices we make are inextricably linked to their fates…

    Read More The bear necessities of the salmon fisheryContinue

  • A group of salmon swimming in a river.
    In the media

    Alaskan Salmon Fishery Drops Eco-Certification, BC Groups Take Credit

    2012 January 172024 July 8

    By Joan Delaney
    Epoch Times

    Last week, Watershed Watch along with Raincoast Conservation and SkeenaWild announced they would challenge the recertification of Alaskan salmon fisheries, which was already in process…

    Read More Alaskan Salmon Fishery Drops Eco-Certification, BC Groups Take CreditContinue

  • A fishing boat in the ocean with mountains in the background.
    Raincoast updates

    Conservationists point finger at DFO over thrown back chum salmon

    2011 August 182024 July 8

    By Alan S. Hale – The Northern View
    August 18, 2011

    The Watershed Watch Salmon Society, Raincoast Conservation Foundation, and SkeenaWild Conservation Trust are not putting most of the blame on the fishermen who are actually breaking the rules, but instead are pointing the finger at the DFO…

    Read More Conservationists point finger at DFO over thrown back chum salmonContinue

  • A small fish swimming in a glass container.
    Raincoast updates

    New study of sea lice on juvenile Fraser River Sockeye

    2011 February 192024 July 8

    North Island Gazette
    February 17, 2011

    A new study published by researchers from Raincoast, Watershed Watch, UVic and SFU shows a link between salmon farms and sea lice on juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon…

    Read More New study of sea lice on juvenile Fraser River SockeyeContinue

  • Juvenile sockeye infected with sea lice as they migrate past fish farms in the Discovery Islands
    Raincoast updates

    Study the first link between farms and sockeye

    2011 February 112024 July 8

    Courier-Islander

    A new study published Monday by researchers from Raincoast and Watershed Watch provides the first link between salmon farms and elevated levels of sea lice on juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon…

    Read More Study the first link between farms and sockeyeContinue

  • Juvenile sockeye infected with sea lice as they migrate past fish farms in the Discovery Islands
    Raincoast updates

    It’s Official: Sea Lice From Salmon Farms Infecting Wild Stock

    2011 February 102024 July 8

    AlterNet

    A new study is the first to show a potential role of salmon farms in sea lice transmission to juvenile sockeye salmon during their critical early migration to the sea…

    Read More It’s Official: Sea Lice From Salmon Farms Infecting Wild StockContinue

  • Juvenile sockeye infected with sea lice as they migrate past fish farms in the Discovery Islands
    Raincoast updates

    Wild salmon sea lice linked to B.C. fish farms

    2011 February 92024 July 8

    CBC News

    Young sockeye salmon from B.C.’s Fraser watershed are infected with higher levels of sea lice after swimming past salmon farms, a new study has found…

    Read More Wild salmon sea lice linked to B.C. fish farmsContinue

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