Posted in Conservation News, Take Action Filed In: Fisheries Management, Salmon Biodiversity, Salmon Farming, Salmon Habitat |
Tagged Cohen, sockeye |
Posted by Trish Hall on September 30, 2011
The final day to make submissions to the Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River through the Commission’s website is October 3, 2011. Submissions can be made through the Inquiry’s online submission form. …
Posted in Conservation News, Policy and Management, Watershed Watch Activities, Watershed Watch in the Media Filed In: Fisheries Management, Salmon Biodiversity |
Tagged Cohen, DFO, Fisheries Act, sockeye, Watershed Watch |
Posted by Trish Hall on September 23, 2011
Watershed Watch Executive Director, Craig Orr, comments on testimony heard at the Cohen Inquiry in the Globe and Mail article Bureaucrats questioned on principle of Fisheries Act at Cohen Commission. After a panel of bureaucrats from Fisheries and Oceans Canada …
Posted in Conservation News, Watershed Watch Activities Filed In: Salmon Biodiversity |
Tagged Evergreen Cultural Centre, Kwikwetlem, sockeye, Watershed Watch |
Posted by Trish Hall on September 19, 2011
A new exhibition at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, Kwikwetlem: Red Fish up the River features Kwikwetlem First Nation cultural objects and regalia, contemporary and archival documentation and contemporary Coast Salish art, including works by Jody Broomfield (Squamish), Darren Blaney (Homalco), …
Posted in Conservation News, Policy and Management, Watershed Watch in the Media Filed In: Fisheries Management, Salmon Biodiversity |
Tagged Cohen, Craig Orr, DFO, fisheries management, salmon, Watershed Watch |
Posted by Trish Hall on September 19, 2011
“It’s disconcerting to many of us why we don’t get more serious about protecting wild salmon on this coast.” - This quote by Watershed Watch Executive Director, Craig Orr, that leads off the Vancouver Sun article Fraser River sockeye salmon’s …
Posted in Conservation News Filed In: Fisheries Management, Salmon Biodiversity |
Tagged Babine Nation, fisheries management, salmon, selective fisheries |
Posted by Trish Hall on September 15, 2011
A selective fishery on the Babine River was reopened this year after being shut down in 1906. The fishery invovled a counting fence and lake beach seining, both techniques that allow a high degree of sorting so only the targeted …
