Watching out for BC’s Wild Salmon.

Our focus is to elevate the dialogue surrounding wild salmon and to improve our chances of saving them.

  • SockeyeSplashing

    Cohen Report Card Launched

    Watershed Watch and SOS Marine Conservation Foundation launch the Cohen Report Card grading government performance regarding the Cohen Final Report recommendations and deadlines

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  • TamedRivers-Slideshow

    Watershed Watch Releases Tamed Rivers Report

    Tamed Rivers provides extensive details on the environmental effects and planning of river diversion projects, the known impacts of river diversion hydropower on fish and wildlife populations, and identifies several areas that require further study.

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  • Fraser Basin LiveMap

    Fraser Basin LiveMap

    This web-based mapping tool allows users to explore the water and salmon of the Fraser River watershed using a cutting-edge data visualization platform.

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  • Lice on pink salmon

    New study on sea lice, salmon farms and wild salmon

    Watershed Watch co-authors study confirming sea lice outbreaks on farms cause wild salmon declines and treating farmed salmon for sea lice well before wild juvenile pink salmon migrate past farms has reduced lice outbreaks on wild fish.

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  • Coquitlam River planting

    Coquitlam River Reforestation Project

    Watershed Watch Salmon Society and the Kwikwetlem First Nation have created 1.5 acres of new streamside forest that will help shelter four species of salmon in the Coquitlam River.

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Latest Updates

Ecojustice available to comment on Holmes Hydro judgment

Media Release May 17, 2013 VANCOUVER – The Holmes Hydro project will not have to undergo an environmental assessment, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled in a decision handed down today. Ecojustice, representing the David Suzuki Foundation and Watershed Watch Salmon Society, …

May 17, 2013

Government moving backwards? No positive action for wild salmon 6 months after Sockeye Inquiry Final Report

For Immediate Release May 13, 2013 On October 31st, 2012, the $26 million Cohen Inquiry Final Report, “The Uncertain Future of the Fraser River Sockeye” was released. It included 75 recommendations to government and has been quoted as a “blueprint” for salmon conservation. …

May 13, 2013
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