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Salmon Spawning Count 2020
Bob Turner made this amazing video! It is a video capturing chum salmon spawning near Squamish, BC in November 2020. The female’s release of her eggs and fertilization by male sperm is clearly visible at 2:34. Here are a few pictures of the weekly salmon spawning counts the Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers did from the beginning…
Squamish River Estuary Skwelwil’em/Howe Sound
by Bob Turner January 27, 2021 The Squamish River estuary was once large and thriving with life, this video shows that changes that have taken place over the past decades without thought in the long lasting impacts to the natural world. Thank YOU Bob Turner for your remarkable work to bring this to our attention…
Stop Cut Blocks in xwesam/Stelk’aya (Roberts Creek) Watershed – Public Comments accepted now – RESOURCES HERE!
Comments can be submitted directly through to email BCTS.SunshineCoast@gov.bc.ca. Public Comment Period is over. Forest Operations Map #1214 provides locations of road construction and forest harvesting operations currently planned and proposed by BCTS-Chinook Business Area within the Forest Development Units of the Sunshine Coast FSP #672. The shapes shown on this map are gross shapes…
Decades of cuts to salmon monitoring leave B.C. scientists uncertain of fish populations
The Narwhal: by Matt Simmons, February 18, 2021 For 40 years, Doug Stewart coordinated his movements with spawning salmon on B.C.’s north coast, climbing up creeks to count the fish as they returned from the ocean. His job as a creekwalker — a contract salmon monitoring gig for Fisheries and Oceans Canada — took him…
Salmon returning to North Van creek in ‘shocking’ numbers (VIDEO)
Coho and chum salmon returns up 300 per cent almost immediately. January 18, 2021 by North Shore News North Shore Streamkeepers president Keegan Casidy wades into Mosquito Creek where salmon are returning in record numbers thanks to a habitat restoration project led by local volunteers.Paul McGrath, North Shore News After all but disappearing from Mosquito…
Last Dance: Spawning Chum Salmon, Vedder River
by Petr Herman Adventures “This video stars a pair of Chum salmon going about their courtship dance. They use their tails to clear silt from the nest they have dug for their eggs, called a Redd. They are not actually spawning in the video, but they are making all the preparations, getting to know each…