Published on 2019 08 13 | by Misty MacDuffee, Nick Gayeski, & Chris Genovali | in For the coast
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…
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Published on 2019 01 21 | by Misty MacDuffee, Wild Salmon Program Director | in Conservation update
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…
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Published on 2018 08 16 | by Raincoast | in Backgrounders
Research by an international team of scientists, including Raincoast staff, showed that a modelled 30 per cent increase in the coast-wide Chinook abundance above the 1979-2008 average could increase southern resident growth rate by as much as 1.9 per cent…
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Published on 2018 07 10 | by Misty MacDuffee & Jeffery Young | in For the coast
The imminent threats to the survival of these whales require the federal government to take immediate action to reduce those threats, not ramp them up. The federal government already faces one killer-whale lawsuit for approving the Trans Mountain project and violating the Species at Risk Act…
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