The Best Weekly Media Round-up of Stories about Salmon and their Habitats
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Dear Salmon News readers,
This week we heard announcements of the first (very moderate) easing of quarantine restrictions. With the onset of the warm weather, many of us (me!) are excited to get out to the reopened provincial parks this weekend. (While still social distancing.)
I found this first article (below) provided some really helpful guidance as to what will and what will not be open.
I hope you get a chance to stretch your legs this weekend.
Sincerely, Anna
PS. A huge thank you to everyone who has sent in letters asking our governments to invest in fish friendly flood infrastructure. Over 950 letters have been sent in the last week! (If you have not yet sent yours, find out more and send your letter here.)
Ahead of the long weekend, CTV News Vancouver gathered a list of some of the attractions that are open, and the restrictions currently in place to keep visitors safe.
The federal government axed seasonal dive surveys of endangered pacific herring off the B.C. coast, where the species has suffered worrying declines in recent decades.
The ability to detect our planet's magnetic field and use it as a map while migrating, homing or hunting could well be one of the most remarkable feats of evolution, and it's also one of the most mysterious.
Fishing guides are at home, hotels are closed and vessels are docked due to COVID-19 restrictions, and it’s not known when these seasonal business will be able to start up again.
The U.S. government is increasingly concerned with pollution from British Columbia mines following new research that shows contaminants in a river south of the border came from Canada.
A fire in the Bish Creek area has grown from 15 to 40 hectares overnight, driven by warm weather and drier-than-normal conditions in the province’s Northwest.
A group of biodiversity experts have warned that pandemics, like coronavirus, could occur more frequently, if mankind does not stop its rapid destruction of nature.
The fish’s struggle for survival is a fight not only for itself but for the health of the planet. An excerpt from Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky.
The COVID-19 crisis shows that over-preparing is the right thing to do. UBC professor Kai Chan says we should learn from that experience and act to prevent climate change.
The recent Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture decision to give a 20-year permit to Cooke Aquaculture to raise farmed salmon in Liverpool Bay is likely to result in the raising and selling of virus-infected salmon in the province.
Amanda Vincent, a professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of B.C., has won the prestigious Indianapolis Prize for exposing the global trade of seahorses and establishing projects to protect them.
Only hours after the provincial government threatened to act on its own and print and distribute salmon tags, DFO has come out with the Atlantic Salmon Management Plan for Newfoundland and Labrador.
Environmental groups have criticized some marine farms, especially those close to shore, for problems such as nutrient pollution and spreading parasites that harm native species.
Biologists have to figure out how to monitor salmon populations in rural communities without the danger of bringing the coronavirus into those communities.
HydroConservation groups said the “game-changing decision” is needed to protect endangered salmon species, which struggle when river temperatures exceed 68 degrees.
The National Marine Fisheries Service recently announced it will consider Endangered Species Act protections for spring-run chinook salmon on the Oregon coast.
As the Army Corps of Engineers ignores requests for a pause in its process, Northern Dynasty Minerals (aka Pebble Partnership) fails to address objections to its preposterous mine plan or fix fatal flaws in its environmental review.
The office of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is suing two gold mining companies for allegedly violating the federal Clean Water Act by discharging illegal levels of pollutants into tributaries of the scenic Kettle River.
Alasdair Keith argues that fish-farms are the new equivalent of the battery farm, and calls on the Scottish government to change its regulations on salmon production and to stop pandering to multinational fishing companies.
