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Watershed Watch Salmon Society

• Salmon battle in Seattle September 13, 2024
  Next week SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, Watershed Watch and Raincoast Conservation Foundation will make arguments at a hearing in Seattle against the Marine Stewardship Council's re-certification of southeast Alaska salmon.
  David Mills
• Goodbye to a fearless leader and friend September 6, 2024
  Donna MacIntyre, longtime Fisheries Director for the Lake Babine Nation and tireless advocate for wild salmon, passed away Sept. 5 from complications of cancer.
  Greg Taylor
• Lois Lake fish farm fined $350k for operating illegally August 26, 2024
  A fish farm operating out of tenure in Lois Lake has been fined $350,000 following a tip from a local fishing guide.
  Stan Proboszcz
• Gravel mining on Vedder River a risk to salmon survival August 20, 2024
  New research shows gravel mining has a direct impact on salmon habitat. There are better alternatives for flood control in the Fraser Valley.
  Suman Bhattacharyya
• Concerns for wild salmon in wake of Chilcotin River landslide August 7, 2024
  A massive debris dam that blocked the Chilcotin River following a landslide last week has given way but the fallout is far from over.
  Dene Moore
• Carey Island: A Landmark Conservation Win July 30, 2024
  Finding space for a river to behave naturally is challenging in our increasingly urbanized world. Lina Azeez, Watershed Watch's habitats program director. In the gravel reach of the Lower Fraser River that stretches from Hope to Mission, only a few remnants of a healthy floodplain still exist. A few areas where dikes
  Lina Azeez
• Wildfire, Drought and the Decline of Wild Salmon July 26, 2024
  Last year, Watershed Watch Salmon Society raised the alarm about salmon and trout dying in Ford Creek in Chilliwack as the worst drought on record parched B.C. waterways. Volunteers raced to save what fish they could, scooping them into buckets to transport them to a cooler area of the creek with riparian cover.  The
  Dene Moore
• Check out our new online shop! July 25, 2024
  Check out our new Watershed Watch online shop and purchase your own Watershed Watch t-shirt or sweatshirt today.
  Meghan Rooney
• Greg Taylor: 2024 Season Outlook July 18, 2024
  I’d like to start this update on the 2024 salmon fishing season with a shout out to Ocean Wise, a Canadian-based seafood eco-label that recently announced its seal of approval for 14 B.C. chinook and sockeye fisheries.  For the first time since the B.C. salmon fishery lost its internationally recognized Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
  Greg Taylor
• Ocean Wise pulls sustainability recommendation for southeast Alaska salmon July 12, 2024
  Vancouver-based eco-label Ocean Wise has removed salmon harvested in southeast Alaska from its list of recommended sustainable seafood products.
  David Mills