There must be a better way to scare off seals
By tapping into a nails-on-a-chalkboard-like reflex, scientists are hopeful they’ve found a way to keep seals away from endangered salmon.
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As waters warm, Alaska witnesses salmon booms and busts
Chaotic salmon returns leave some Alaskans with an abundance of salmon, and others with none.
Salmon actually found in fields during B.C. floods
As Kevin Estrada boated around flooded agricultural land while assisting neighbours during B.C.’s climate disaster, he noticed salmon struggling amid tall grass and flowing water.
Is Ottawa breaking a promise to close fisheries to protect wild salmon?
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.
Cross-border Salish Sea study finds key puzzle pieces of wild salmon die-off
A massive cross-border research and conservation effort has yielded a potential roadmap to save wild salmon in the Salish Sea.
Anglers and researchers delve into fish guts to save salmon
Squeezing out fish stomachs and poking through intestines may be distasteful, but it’s part of a collaborative effort by researchers and recreational fishermen to save endangered salmon and divine shifts to the marine food web as climate change advances.
Streamkeepers use motion-sensor camera to capture conservation data
Volunteer streamkeepers on B.C.'s Quadra Island can monitor returning salmon from the comfort of their kitchen table with the help of a high-tech surveillance system.
Meet the streamkeepers protecting Canada's wild salmon
B.C.'s Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society runs a salmon eco-centre, monitors fish populations and conducts watershed enhancement activities on five of Quadra’s most productive spawning streams.
About 56,000 fish now upstream of landslide in B.C.'s Fraser River
About 56,000 fish have made it past a disastrous landslide in British Columbia's Fraser River as crews continue to work to clear debris and find other ways to transport salmon to their spawning grounds.
Millions of fish still threatened by landslide obstruction on Fraser River
Authorities dealing with a massive landslide in British Columbia's Fraser River say they've successfully helped thousands of salmon migrate north of the site, but millions of fish remain threatened by the obstruction.
Sockeye returns plunge in B.C., official calls 2019 'extremely challenging'
Federal fisheries experts are painting a devastating picture of the challenges facing Pacific salmon and point to climate change as the main culprit.
No timeline for opening of natural passage for salmon bottleneck on Fraser River
Officials say they're working as quickly as possible but can't determine if they're on track to create a natural passage at the site of a Fraser River landslide that would allow salmon to reach their spawning grounds.
B.C., federal government working to save Fraser River stocks after rock slide
The federal and British Columbia governments have made a joint commitment to do everything possible to make sure chinook, steelhead, coho and sockeye are able to reach their spawning grounds past a rock slide in the Fraser River.
Trans Mountain pipeline work destroyed salmon habitat, scientist says
Work on a Trans Mountain pipeline crossing in a British Columbia stream has destroyed salmon habitat, raising concerns about the Crown corporation's ability to build infrastructure through waterways if the expansion project proceeds, a scientist says.