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A study by Simon Fraser University researchers looked into how sockeye salmon in the Skeena watershed are being impacted by climate change. As Darius Mahdavi...
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Oct 28, 2024 · The Syilx Okanagan Nation is celebrating a record-breaking salmon run in the region this year, but says it fears for the future of the restoration work after a neighbouring nation pulled funding ...
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Salmon across the world have struggled as oceans warm due to climate change. But in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the world’s biggest sockeye run keeps breaking reco...
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Oct 6, 2015 · Sockeye Salmon are among the most desirable salmon, fetching the highest market value per pound. They return in huge numbers to river across the USA and Can...
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Dec 4, 2020 · That compared to peak years where upwards of 20 million salmon would return, has many people concerned. 2020 saw the lowest return of sockeye salmon in B.C.’s Fraser River since record keeping ...
While this year’s sockeye run in some parts of BC is promising, the overall trend is bleaker. The sockeye population has been in decline for a century—since 1913, returns in the Skeena River have dropped by 75 percent —and while there are many factors at play, says Dr. Cheung, “climate change is definitely one of them.”
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Jul 31, 2020 · Salmon are a part of the Northwestern way of life, but these iconic fish are sliding toward extinction. And if they go, so do the orcas that eat them. There’s a solution that scientists, economists, and many communities agree on: taking out dams and restoring a free-flowing river. Man-made dams are the biggest threat to salmon.
