Backgrounder on Canada’s Pacific salmon fishery losing its Marine Stewardship Council certification

Published on 2019 10 12 | by Raincoast | in Backgrounders

What is the Marine Stewardship Council? The Marine Stewardship Council, or “MSC”, is an international, independent non-profit organization which sets a standard for sustainable fishing. Fisheries that wish to demonstrate they are well-managed and sustainable compared to the science-based MSC standards are assessed by a team of experts who are independent of both the fishery […]

Provincial Wild Salmon Secretariat needs a focus on habitat

Published on 2019 02 19 | by Misty MacDuffee, Wild Salmon Program Director & Chris Genovali, Executive Director | in For the coast

In order to recover and sustainably manage depleted wild salmon populations, place-based management and the restoration of salmon watersheds is the best way forward given the changing environmental conditions that confront these fish and the value that British Columbians place on them.

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

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…

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

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

This paper, lead by scientists at Simon Fraser University and 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…

Three months in the Fraser River Estuary

Published on 2016 07 09 | by Raincoast | in Notes from the Field

We have been out on the vast flats of the Fraser River estuary with purse seine and beach seine nets to document the arrival and use of different habitats by juvenile salmon…

Conservation concerns for DFO’s 2016 salmon fishing plan

Published on 2016 05 04 | by Raincoast | in Salmon

BC wild salmon conservation groups submit concerns to DFO for 2016 fishing plan…

Flood control structures in tidal creeks, sloughs harm fish in lower Fraser River

Published on 2016 05 02 | by Raincoast | in In the News

Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun

Biologist finds flood control structures on the Fraser River alienate habitat for salmon and encourage invasive species…

Raincoast files its final arguments to the NEB

Published on 2016 01 12 | by Raincoast | in Raincoast updates

Raincoast has filed our final arguments in the National Energy Board’s review of Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain expansion…

High Road Clothing Company

Published on 2013 02 28 | by Raincoast | in In the News

Buy a beautiful merino wool scarf from High Road Clothing Company and support Raincoast’s Wild Salmon Program…