B.C.’s salmon returns up in 2022, 2023, 2024: can this be related to 49 salmon farms closing?

Despite no major media coverage either of the closing of 49 salmon farms or of the nonetheless recent beautifully covered  abundant wild salmon returns by smaller media publications, the following presentation takes a look at both of these stories: the closures 2018 – 2023 and the increasing salmon returns to the B.C. coast 2022 – 2024 Click on image to…

Government of Canada bans open net-pen salmon farms in transition plan for 2029

To better protect wild Pacific salmon and to promote more sustainable aquaculture practices, the Government of Canada will ban open net-pen salmon aquaculture in British Columbia coastal waters by June 30, 2029. The Government of Canada announces transition from open net-pen salmon aquaculture in coastal British Columbia News release June 19, 2024 Ottawa, Ontario – Wild Pacific salmon are an emblematic…

A Crisis in Fisheries and Oceans Science – FOPO: “Overhaul and reform Department of Fisheries and Oceans”

  Fisheries and Oceans Committee report (FOPO) sounds alarm bells about DFO science 3/2023 The Government of Canada must use the results of the recommended investigations, examinations and audits to overhaul and reform the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray must take the House Fisheries and Oceans Committee’s recommendations for changes to her department seriously,…

DFO’s transition plan for salmon farms “from BC waters” extended indefinitely past summer 2023 timeline.

      Response from Wild First @wildfirstcanada to Fisheries Minister’s stalling on salmon farm transition plan due but delayed indefinitely since June 2023. February 22, 2024 “The Minister’s marching orders are ‘to transition open net pen salmon farms from BC waters by 2025’. Her Department, seeing no need to do that, is currently consulting on issuing new salmon farm…

Chief Ernest Alfred visits the farm-free waters of the departed Swanson Island Salmon Farm

The Broughton is celebrating, especially Chief Ernest Alfred as he returns to the location of the Swanson Farm Occupation that lasted 284 days. Witness Chief Ernest’s gratitude returning to his homeland’s uninfested waters!          

Dramatic Podcast Series, the Salmon People, recounts Alexandra Morton’s saga to protect wild salmon, with many previously unheard participants: additional episodes September through October 2022

  The Salmon People: Now 9 Episodes going on 10
 30 min each The Unlikely Detective – The Gold Rush – Camp Sea Lice – The Game Changer – Hiding the Scientist – Skull and Crossbones – The Occupation – Intimidation – Minimal Risk — September / October 2022 ongoing

Okanagan First Nation fishery celebrates record return of sockeye salmon: CBC September 2, 2022

“The Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) is celebrating the highest recorded sockeye salmon return in the modern era after two decades of work led by First Nations to restore fish migration routes and spawning habitat. An estimated 670,000 sockeye have entered the Columbia River system this summer on a nearly-1,000-kilometre upstream journey toward spawning grounds in creeks and rivers, according to…

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