Fraser River

Justice to head Fraser River salmon inquiry

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen will head the federal inquiry into the decline of the Fraser River sockeye salmon stocks.

Fraser River salmon collapse, Justice Bruce Cohen inquiry

ThePolitic.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

A public judicial inquiry into the diminishing salmon stock in the Fraser River will waste taxes and offer nothing more useful than what we already know: over-fishing is the problem.

Prospects looking dim again for Lake Washington sockeye fishery

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009

"It doesn't make any sense that the Lake Washington and Fraser River [in British Columbia] sockeye runs were so poor, while the Columbia River was so good this past summer [177,823 sockeye were counted at Bonneville Dam]," Foley said. "You kind of wonder what the heck happened, and did they go to a different place in the ocean?"

Save the salmon by eating salmon

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

According to the promoter of a massive Alaska mine project, its site adjacent to two of the world's greatest salmon streams, we should boycott a baker's dozen of Seattle-area restaurants.The eateries' sin is that they are serving up sockeye salmon with a warning that the great Bristol Bay fishery, which supports 12,000 jobs, could get socked if tailings from the proposed Pebble Mine get into the rivers."It's...

British Columbia's salmon: Socked

The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Another inquiry into vanishing stocks A MYSTERIOUS decline in the numbers of spawning salmon has become one of the rites of autumn in British Columbia, bringing worries of financial and job losses, threats of extinction and a perplexing lack of answers. This season only 1.7m of the 10.4m sockeye salmon that were forecast to return to the Fraser river in fact made it—a 50-year low....

Should we eat salmon at all? Part 2

Trusted.MD Network - Empowering Healthcare... (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

I went to a very interesting lecture a few weeks ago about the decline of the Fraser River sockeye salmon stocks, presented by Dr. Glenn Crossin from the University of British Columbia. His studies of the Fraser River sockeye implicate climate change as one of the most important factors in their almost complete collapse this year. Ten million salmon that were expected to...

Surrey chicken plant catches fire

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

... problem altogether. Canada FeaturesPeople who read this also read …Guided salmon fishing on the Fraser river of British Columbia CanadaViews of Kicking Horse Country from hot tub & decks minutes to Golden!Luxurious Tofino Beachfront Resort Vancouver Islands rugged West Coast

An occasional photo: A new MP

Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

In 1995, Fin Donnelly swam the 1,300-kilometre-long Fraser River to draw attention to the need to save B.C.’s rivers, an epic three-week experience I was fortunate enough to be part of. Tonight, Fin was elected as a Member of Parliament, in a by-election in New Westminster-Coquitlam. Congratulations to one of the most sincere, dedicated and [...]

Theme music

Impolitical (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Some theme music for the most referenced item on the blog today . Surprisingly educational. We have to have fun around here too... On Friday, International Trade Minister Stockwell Day announced Justice Bruce Cohen would lead an inquiry into the collapse of the salmon run. Though the Fraser River borders part of the riding, Day insisted the last-minute announcement had nothing to do with...

B.C. judge to head salmon inquiry

Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen will investigate 'the causes for the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon'

Podunk Below the Masthead, Friday, November 6, 2009

HTMF: Prince Rupert's Website (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

Some thoughts from the Chief Councillor of Lax Kw'alaams, more on the upcoming Judicial inquiry into the Fraser River sockeye fishery and the on again, off again, on again H1N1 clinic for Prince Rupert, some of the items of note from the Friday news cycle... (from the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article http://atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html#7635127411251718762...

B.C. judge to head salmon inquiry

Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

The federal government has given a B.C. Supreme Court judge unlimited power to find out why the Fraser River sockeye fishery collapsed.

PM calls judicial inquiry into disappearing B.C. salmon

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

The federal government is calling a judicial inquiry into the disappearance of millions of Fraser River sockeye salmon, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday in the House of Commons.

Canadian Scientists Investigate Declining Salmon Numbers

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Canada is looking into why less sockeye salmon swam back to the Fraser River on the Pacific Coast this summer than the number that was predicted by scientists.Prime Minister Stephen Harper revealed the inquiry Thursday, noting that the federal government was worried about the shrinking numbers.Scientists had envisaged that about 13 million sockeye salmon would return for mating season,...

• Canada To Investigate Disappearing Pacific Salmon - Science - The Post Chronicle

Canada to investigate disappearing Pacific salmon

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada will launch an investigation into why far fewer sockeye salmon than scientists had predicted returned to the Fraser River on the Pacific Coast this summer.