BC Fisheries News Watch November 9 to November 15, 2013 - Salmon
For your reference we are monitoring and compiling news items of interest about the 2013 BC Wild Salmon Run. Here are the links to our News Watch for November 9 to November 15 2013.
Rivers were positively pink this fall
By Paul Rudan - Campbell River Mirror, November 14, 2013
Pink was the prime colour this fall.
That would be pink salmon whose spectacular returns – the best in 50 years coast wide – exceeded all expectations.
“We had the biggest year in the recorded history,” said Dave Ewart, manager of the Quinsam River Hatchery.
http://www.campbellrivermirror.com/news/231953481.html
1,035,766 pinks, cohos at 5-year high
By Neil Cameron, The Courier-Islander November 15, 2013
Salmon returns to the Campbell/Quinsam Rivers show that pinks came back in record numbers and coho returns were the highest in five years.
http://www.canada.com/pinks+cohos+year+high/9168439/story.html
Digital Journal, November 15, 2013
CULTUS LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Nov. 15, 2013) - The Honourable Randy Kamp, Parliamentary Secretary to Gail Shea, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Mark Strahl, Member of Parliament for Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon, visited the Cultus Lake Laboratory today to observe work underway to rebuild the endangered Cultus Lake sockeye, a Fraser River sockeye stock. Fisheries and Oceans Canada staff are starting this season's collection of eggs and milt from the returning sockeye for incubation.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1590257
The little creek that could
By Mike Youds, Daily News Staff Reporter
Residents along Campbell Creek in Dallas were enjoying their backyard a couple of months ago when they heard a splash in the water from behind a fence. When they investigated, the source of the commotion turned out to be pink salmon swimming upstream to spawn. Until that point, no one in the neighbourhood realized that the little stream could even support salmon. Unfortunately, the channel was so choked with waste and debris that there was limited spawning potential.
http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20131115/KAMLOOPS0101/131119941/-1/kamloops01/the-little-creek-that-could
Bowen Hatchery recieves first-ever Pink salmon eggs
Meribeth Deen - Bowen Island Undercurrent, November 15, 2013
On Wednesday, Rob Bell-Irving from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans brought 100 thousand ‘eyed’ Pink salmon eggs to the Bowen Island Fish Hatchery. “Until now, we really haven’t had enough Pink eggs to be able to give them away,” said Bell-Irving. “These come from the Tenderfoot Hatchery in Squamish, and the last really great Pink salmon year in Squamish was in the late 1960s. We’ve been working since the 1990s to replenish our stocks, and this year we’ve seen real success with both a commercial fishery and sport fishery for Pink salmon in Howe Sound.
http://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/news/232099481.html
Salmon returning to Burnaby creeks
By Mario Bartel - Burnaby NewsLeader, November 14, 2013
They’re a little late this season, but the salmon are returning to Burnaby’s creeks.
http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/news/231917161.html
Editorial: Salmon come back strong
Victoria Times Colonist, November 14, 2013
Winding behind a shopping mall, assaulted by oil spills and littered with junk, Colquitz Creek seems an unlikely candidate for an environmental success story. But thanks to the efforts of dedicated people, salmon are swimming up the stream to spawn.. ..Between November 2011 and December 2012, at least five spills contaminated the creek with heating oil, insulating oil from power lines, hydraulic fluid and diesel…. It has taken decades of work by volunteers, governments and industry to clean up the waters around Greater Victoria. To keep the recovered streams healthy, all of us have to think about the pollutants we are flushing into our streams.
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/editorial-salmon-come-back-strong-1.695693
Colquitz Creek salmon run a fine kettle of fish
Sandra McCulloch / Times Colonist, November 11, 2013
Despite all the threats it faces, Colquitz Creek in Saanich is thriving as a home for salmon.
Colquitz is an urban stream under tremendous pressure from homes along its bank, storm drains that empty into it and runoff from farming and light industry. It weathered a number of spills in 2010-11, when some fish died but many others survived.On one day last week, volunteers counted 449 coho and two cutthroat trout — more than the entire run last year.
http://www.timescolonist.com/colquitz-creek-salmon-run-a-fine-kettle-of-fish-1.692748
Chum salmon ‘wiped out’ by 2011 fuel spill in Goldstream River
Rob Shaw / Times Colonist, November 12, 2013
An entire batch of chum salmon hit by a 2011 fuel spill in Goldstream Provincial Park have been “wiped out” and failed to return to spawn this year, a local hatchery says.
http://www.timescolonist.com/chum-salmon-wiped-out-by-2011-fuel-spill-in-goldstream-river-1.694559
Nanaimo's Pacific Biological Station earns heritage status
By Karl Yu - Nanaimo News Bulletin, Published: November 14, 2013
The Pacific Biological Station has been recognized by the Government of Canada for its 105 years of contributions to fishery and aquatic research.
http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/231778951.html
Columbia River:
Video: Enough to walk across their backs
by Christine Pratt, Nov. 12, 2013
This year’s return of fall chinook surpassed 1 million fish, more than three times the nearly 300,000 fish that returned last year. The species spawns in the Hanford Reach, the only remaining free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River below Priest Rapids. The record-breaking return appears to confirm the old Native American legend that returning salmon were once so numerous that a person could cross a stream by walking on their backs.
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/nov/12/enough-walk-across-their-backs/
Great year for salmon topped by fall chinook run
by K.C. Mehaffey, Nov. 13, 2013
WENATCHEE — It’s a record year for this year’s fall chinook run.
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/nov/13/great-year-for-salmon-topped-by-fall-chinook-run/
Reference Links
Link to November 1 - 8, 2013 Salmon Newswatch http://www.farmfreshsalmon.org/bc-fisheries-news-watch-november-1-november-8-2013-salmon
News Watch - 2013 Wild Salmon Runs August to October 2013
http://www.farmfreshsalmon.org/news-watch-2013-wild-salmon-runs-august-october-2013
