“We’re facing record lows with a lot of our salmon populations, and so we’re at a point now where we have to do everything we can to rebuild those populations so that we can have some abundance.” Read the full story at Nanaimo News Now.

"It's been a really great fund that's allowed us to do restoration, monitoring and research," said Dave Scott, research and restoration coordinator for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation's Lower Fraser salmon program. "[The fund] gets a huge number of applications for conservation and restoration-focused work. Politically, I think they would get a lot of pushback if they totally dropped that from [the BC fund]."

Read the full article at National Observer.

“But salmon and salmon life cycle doesn’t end at the river mouth,” said Fulton. “That’s why we need to look further afield. We need to look at eelgrass ecosystems that are nurseries for salmon and we need to look at these other complex nearshore ecosystems like kelp forests.”

Read more at Haida Gwaii Observer.

"We don't know what outcome they were looking for up here because our stocks are still considered threatened and endangered," said Snyder. "The fishing closures to protect those stocks are still in place." Read the full article here.

“What the scientists on the Fin Island research station at the entrance to the Kitimat Fjord System — which connects Kitimat on B.C.’s north coast to Hecate Strait — didn’t realize at the time was that what they witnessed wasn’t just a feeding event, but a shift in the whales’ cultural learning.” Read the whole story at Times Colonist.