Posted in Conservation News, Policy and Management
Tagged fisheries management, MSC, pink salmon |
Posted by Trish Hall on July 28, 2011
Watershed Watch joins with SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, Raincoast Conservation and the David Suzuki Foundation to offer conditional support to the Marine Stewardship Council’s recent certification of BC’s pink salmon fisheries. The four conservation groups want assurance that 44 conditions will …
Posted in Conservation News, Science and Research Filed In: Fisheries Management |
Posted by Trish Hall on July 26, 2011
According to an article published in the Vancouver Sun the Privy Council Office in Ottawa has stopped Kristi Miller (a leading fisheries scientist based out of the Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island) from talking about recent research into a …
Posted in Conservation News, Policy and Management Filed In: Hydropower, Salmon Habitat |
Tagged conservation, cumulative impacts, media, Ministry of Environment, wildlife |
Posted by Trish Hall on July 24, 2011
In the Times Colonist article Will ‘Super, natural BC’ be here for your kids? James Walker, former assistant deputy minister in the provincial Ministry of Environment, and before that director of wildlife, discusses key issues that must be considered in …
Posted in Salmon Leaks Filed In: Fisheries Management, Salmon Biodiversity, Salmon Habitat |
Tagged Cohen, dynamics, fisheries management, Habitat, sockeye |
Posted by Stan Proboszcz on July 20, 2011
The Cohen Commission continued its examination of Fraser sockeye through several expert reports and a quick look at habitat enhancement and restoration. Consultants and academics were the primary authors of the reports and were questioned while their reports were entered …
Posted in Policy and Management, Watershed Watch Activities Filed In: Fisheries Management, Salmon Biodiversity |
Tagged chum, DFO, fisheries management, MSC, SkeenaWild, Watershed Watch |
Posted by Trish Hall on July 19, 2011
In the letter MSC condition being ignored in Area 4 fishery, Watershed Watch Salmon Society and SkeenaWild Conservation Trust highlight a condition not being met in the MSC certified Skeena River sockeye fishery that is putting beleaguered Skeena River chum …
