To achieve healthy, sustainable and naturally diverse Pacific salmon stocks.
Mission statement:
To conserve and rebuild Pacific salmon populations through strategic and focused efforts where people and resources are mobilized to work together to achieve common goals.
This felt like it was less about saving salmon and more about corporate promotion and something conjured up by a marketing department.. "We needed to pull the resources together from several departments to get one guy with a backhoe to band-aid the problem"
Hi @0ctatr0n the work was intended to be an emergency fix and part of the Emergency Drought Response program that was set up last year to address emerging issues like this. At the time there were tens of thousands of pink salmon holding below the blockage with many dying off before they had a chance to spawn. The quick response in a remote area with challenging terrain meant the salmon were able to get through. Of course there is longer term work being done to restore habitat and help salmon be more resilient in the face of climate change and other pressures. You can learn more about this work at www.psf.ca
When will people finally understand that beavers are the key to river and stream restoration, and to the recovery and protection of fish? Given the opportunity, beavers would create wetlands that would feed cool, clean water into the river during the driest months of the year, and those wetlands would be habitat for fish, frogs, turtles, and countless other creatures. Half-ass attempts by humans to save the fish will never perform as well as beavers. They are a keystone species, and the river protection will never be complete without them.
Very informative. Especially when Andy mentioned the importance of nutrient runoff from Weir and Taylor beaches and how it flows down to the lagoon. The nutrients feed the phytoplankton which feed the salmon.
Thanks Neil, we think the video is excellent. The great news is that we've also uploaded the video to our social channels and it's received several thousands of views over the past few months!
The Fraser Salmon & Watersheds Program is an independently managed and administered funding and project management effort conducted by the PSF and the FBC. Funds have been raised with the provincial and federal government, corporations and individuals. We'd be happy to help out with your queries. Please contact us directly at PSF or FBC and ask for FSWP staff. If you are looking for specifics on the Georgia Basin, you can contact the BCCF based in Nanaimo. .
