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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. COMMENTS ARE STILL ACCEPTED VIA EMAIL. 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…
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…
WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THE ROBERTS CREEK WATERSHED CUT BLOCKS?
Submit Public Comments to BC Timber Sales (BCTS) We need your help to stop the 6 cut blocks planned in Roberts Creek watershed in 2025 and 2026! Time is of the essence as public comment period ended May 4, 2024 but comments are still accepted via email only. The main concern is these cut blocks…
Raincoast Study: Chinook salmon exhibit long-term rearing and early marine growth in the Fraser River, B.C., a large urban estuary
A new study has used salmon ear bones (otoliths) and genetic fingerprinting to confirm the importance of the Fraser estuary for juvenile Chinook salmon. Published on 2021 · 01 · 20 by Raincoast Conservation Photo by Michael O. Snyder. A new paper published by a team of researchers, including Raincoast scientists, and led by Lia Chalifour, finds additional…
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…
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…