Canada has the policy tools to protect Pacific salmon. Why aren’t they working?
A new peer-reviewed perspective examines why decades of ambitious conservation policy have failed to halt wild salmon declines and what must change to reverse the trend.
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What our estuary salmon fieldwork crews are up to
Reflections from seven (going on eight) years of fieldwork in the Fraser River Estuary.
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Climate resilience for salmon habitat
Drones, snorkel surveys, and how the drivers of severe wildfire affect watershed security and salmon habitat in BC.
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Long may they run
Fighting to rebuild the resilience of BC’s wild salmon.
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Habitat restoration and salmon research
Restoring vital habitat for salmon in the Fraser River estuary.
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Honey, I shrunk the Chinook
Chinook salmon are getting smaller, and one explanation is uncomfortably familiar.
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Rethinking fisheries
Raincoast has long argued that ocean fisheries removing “yields” of intercepted salmon on migration routes are not sustainable into the future.
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Creekwalking in Heiltsuk Territory
This past fall, Raincoast’s Wild Salmon team and technicians from the Reynolds Lab at Simon Fraser University conducted fieldwork for a long-term chum and pink salmon spawner monitoring project in Heiltsuk Territory. Started in 2007, the project monitors spawning populations in 27 small streams throughout the territory, and the data is used to inform fisheries…
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Restoring habitat, restoring connectivity in the Fraser River Estuary
The breaches we created in the North Arm and Steveston Jetties have seen immediate success, which is rare for a habitat restoration project.
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Our wild dream: Wild salmon in wild rivers
Our Wild Salmon Program works to ensure self-sustaining populations of wild salmon returning to wild rivers.
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BC needs to stand up to the federal government on salmon issues
Will the province stand by as the federal government permits the destruction of vital salmon habitat in BC?
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Meet Auston Chhor, Raincoast’s new Wild Salmon Governance and Policy Analyst
He will focus on addressing the myriad of threats facing salmon habitats in the Lower Fraser River by progressing governance frameworks, policies, funding structures, and field research initiatives.
