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A Norwegian strain of piscine orthoreovirus, which is strongly associated with death of Chinook salmon, was identified at 14 out of 15 farms tested.
Government is taking steps to arrest the decline of the landlocked salmon.
After two decades of unprecedented cooperation by treaty tribal, state and federal fisheries co-managers, fishermen, conservation groups, industry and others, groundfish populations today are recovering decades faster than expected and closed waters are being reopened.

Fishing nets, buoy balls, plastic net bags, oyster trays, and long lines are just some of the marine debris choking wildlife and breaking down to micro plastics in the ocean. So what can B.C. do about it?
Indigenous ecological knowledge is a key component of many adaptation plans, and conversations with tribal members often inform the assessments.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada said it is too early to know how the recent flooding at Goldstream Provincial Park will affect salmon in the river.
Commercial fishermen in B.C. are sending out an SOS following last year’s disastrous salmon season that has already sunk some boat owners.
Our Coextinction film crew, led by Gloria and Elena Routledge, set out to tell their story, one that is intertwined with an entire ecosystem on the verge of collapse and a relationship with man that goes back thousands of years.

Since the Industrial Revolution, experts estimate that Earth's oceans have absorbed more than a quarter of the atmospheric carbon dioxide resulting in our oceans becoming more acidic through a process called ocean acidification.
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It is their problem for not understanding that these are different, eco-friendlier times in this province, and that Nova Scotia is no longer the kind of compliant place that bows and scrapes to every potential employer.
In much of northeastern B.C., Indigenous populations can no longer hunt and fish as their ancestors did, because their land and water are too polluted and disturbed by infrastructure.
The month of February in Grays Harbor is hard core winter steelheading time. This is the case for many reasons. Most of these have to do with our region and nature itself.
Craig Ames sizes himself up against the steelhead his dad, Raleigh Ames, caught and hung off the family’s backyard swingset in Lewiston in this photo taken around 1952.
If passed by the Legislature and then approved by voters, Cuomo’s $3 billion Restore Mother Nature Bond Act will reduce flood risk, improve water quality, reconnect creeks and streams, restore habitats and protect wetlands and forests across Western New York.

Von Biela says that her research indicates that fish managers may want to reconsider a fundamental assumption: that letting salmon swim by fishing nets necessarily means that they will make more salmon. In 2019, some salmon failed to spawn, dying with full egg sacks on the spawning grounds.
In the final throes of winter, steaming compost piles still secrete the scent of death’s redemption and send vapors soaring toward the heavens even as rain drops fall all around.
In the first of a two-part series, we explored the effects of warming river water on salmon. Now we take a look at the warming ocean, and what that means.
Last October, I attended a meeting in Moscow, Idaho held by the Friends of the Clearwater, where none of the biologists talked about lost salmon productivity in Idaho.
British Columbia
From now through to April, BC Hydro is introducing an operational change to improve fish survival.
Bees have faced a series of threats for years, including habitat loss, parasites and pesticide use.
More than $140,000 is available to support local projects.
On Feb. 4, the Federal Court of Appeal struck down one Indigenous-led challenge of the Trans Mountain expansion project’s re-approval, but the pushback continues.
Kokanee was introduced to Co-op Lake, east of Burns Lake, in 2017 with eastern brook trout being stocked there since 2010.
Get the latest details on the Big Bar slide and learn about the Port Moody Ecological Society — during the group's agm.
Semiahmoo Fish and Game Club are uncertain how many fish got free.
The Hakai Institute Juvenile Salmon Program and the Pelagic Ecosystems Laboratory (UBC, Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries) are looking for two full time interns for their 2020 salmon field program. Interns will be based at Hakai Institute’s Quadra Island Research Station.
Canada

Almost $150 million allocated to help protect Canada's oceans has gone unspent by the Trudeau government over the past two years.
Conservation groups say rare video that captures wild Atlantic salmon spawning in a Nova Scotia brook near a proposed gold mine site should help persuade governments to reject the project.

For hundreds of years, Nova Scotia’s coast has been protected by dikes first built by the Acadians. That may soon have to change.
United States
Conservation and environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a recent decision by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife permitting Cooke Aquaculture to rear domesticated steelhead in Puget Sound net pens.

The 'memorandum of understanding' addresses three issues, but doesn't appear to impact the coming collision over cap-and-trade.
An ongoing study of Wallowa Lake's kokanee and their food sources aims to improve lives of kokanee, and also help fisheries biologists understand if the lake has the resources to support reintroduction of sockeye.
Proposals to increase escapement goals for Kenai River late-run sockeye salmon drew passionate response from stakeholders during the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting in Anchorage Monday morning.

The best way to battle the winter blues is to get outside and get your hands dirty.
The company is looking to make a premium on a fish that has traditionally served as the cheaper alternative to salmon in US markets.
The Mat-Su Borough Fish and Wildlife Commission has submitted management proposals to the State Board of Fisheries they hope will restore king salmon in the Matanuska-Susitna Basin.
Proponents of the sector note the potentially huge economic benefits that they can bring to rural communities and the salmon farmers themselves believe that the technology and experience now available will make them financially viable.
The emergency regulations listed in California Code of Regulations prohibit fishing for spring Chinook salmon in the Klamath River Basin from Jan. 1, 2020, through June 30, 2020.
Salmonfest 2020 is three days of music July 31-Aug. 2 on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Since 2015 Salmonfest has donated over $150,000 in support of salmon and related initiatives.

A new deal between Oregon’s timber industry and environmentalists to protect forest waters, modernize logging regulations and create a new conservation plan was announced Monday by Gov. Kate Brown and representatives of both interests. The two sides have been at odds over policy and practices for decades, and this agreement aims to create a mediation process for updating the Oregon Forest Practices Act, passed in 1971.

A flood control dam proposal on the Chehalis complicates a multimillion-dollar effort by tribes and lawmakers to bring back declining salmon runs.
An environmental group is petitioning the federal government to list a population of freshwater Alaska seals under the Endangered Species Act.
The Alaska Board of Fisheries decided that Susitna River sockeye salmon have sufficiently rebounded to remove their special status but at the same time does not want to relax potential harvest restrictions.
Commercial fishing dreams of netting riches die hard in Alaska.
The state's world class fishing opportunities draw anglers from near and far.
The bipartisan Washington Congressional delegation united on Friday to support a project central to Puget Sound salmon recovery and the growth of food supplies to Southern resident orcas.
A series of six public meetings will be held this month to seek input on how best to manage the 2020 Chinook salmon fisheries in Idaho rivers.
Alaska's Tongass and Chugach National Forests, which contain some of the world's largest remaining tracts of intact temperate rainforest, contribute an average of 48 million salmon a year to the state's commercial fishing industry.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has released a salmon forecast for both early and late run king salmon in the Kenai River, as well as Kenai River sockeye, that predicts a below-average run of both kinds of salmon.

Facing stiff competition from a surging sea otter population, Alaska’s bears are biting back.
International
Farmed salmon in Scotland are set to play a starring role in a film narrated by Kate Winslet that casts an unforgiving light on animal agriculture.
A new study warns of three major threats to the beloved bioluminescent bugs.
The Environment Agency are undertaking a ground-breaking tracking project tracking salmon in River Derwent.
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