Watershed Watch Salmon Society

Conservation groups have written to the federal environment minister requesting a review of a chemical used in tires that they say has been linked to the "mass deaths" of coho salmon.

Ottawa has “abandoned” endangered salmon and steelhead trout despite its biodiversity promises, a coalition of B.C. environmental groups allege.

Optimism over an expected bumper season for wild sockeye salmon in British Columbia has turned to distress.

A recent Federal Court ruling to set aside a decision to phase out salmon farms in the Discovery Islands doesn't necessarily mean the issue is dead in the water, say First Nations and environmentalists.

Open-net salmon farm opponents want the new federal fisheries minister to new deny any aquaculture applications to expand production in B.C. waters

B.C. conservationists are wondering if Fisheries and Oceans Canada is going rogue and defying ministry orders by opening a commercial fishery on the Fraser River when endangered salmon stocks are collapsing.

“The Fraser is by far B.C.’s largest salmon-bearing watershed and the majority of it is being impacted by the slide,” says Aaron Hill, executive director of Watershed Watch Salmon Society.

Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan revealed the initial framework and guiding principles for Ottawa’s $647.1-million Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative (PSSI) announced in the 2021 budget.

Fish farm opponents on the West Coast are jubilant after Ottawa’s announcement Thursday that operations in the Discovery Islands are being phased out over the next 18 months.

Ken Hardie, who represents the British Columbia riding of Fleetwood-Port Kells, raised several questions during a parliamentary committee meeting about the assessments studied by the department to arrive at its conclusion that open-net pen fish farms pose little risk to wild salmon.

A major rock slide in British Columbia's Fraser River has prompted new restrictions to recreational and First Nations fishing of chinook salmon, as officials scramble to prevent long-term devastation of the population.