Pacific Northwest Salmon News of interest this week

December 12, 2014
Pacific Northwest Salmon News we found of interest this week:
 
B.C. Salmon Farmers Commit $1.5-Million Towards Furthering Salmon Research
BCSFA, December 11, 2014
Following a series of priority-setting workshops with leading academics and science-based research organizations, BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) are committing $1.5-million to further research about wild and farm-raised salmon and how they interact with the environment
 
Salmon returns tallied
Neil Cameron / Campbell River Courier-Islander, December 12, 2014
The numbers aren't final but the salmon return to the Campbell and Quinsam River systems are in. Chinook numbers are still preliminary. In the Quinsam River there were 2,300 chinook, 14,881 coho (2,761 jacks) and 1,416,919 pinks. In the Campbell there were 500 chinooks, 15,000 chum and 35,477 pinks
 
Fall Columbia River salmon outlook looks good
The Olyympian, December 9, 2014 
 Anglers should look for fall fishing in the Columbia River in 2015 to be similar to the record and near-record fisheries of the last two years. That is the preliminary assessment released Tuesday by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
 
Millions of Salmon Return Home
 
Read about the our plans to restore forage fish for salmon in the Strait of Georgia.
https://www.psf.ca/blog/restoring-forage-fish-salmon
 
Another fresh post from the salmon blog. Learn about our fleet of 'Citizen Science' fishing boats coming to a community near you next February.
https://www.psf.ca/blog/citizen-science-boats-are-coming-communities-near-you
 
Salmon, other marine species will move north as water warms
Posted on December 10, 2014 | By Joel Connelly
Changes in climate, in large part caused by humans, will drive West Coast marine species, from whales to salmon, northward by an average of 30 kilometers (nearly 20 miles) a year, according to a new study published in the journal Progress in Oceanography…The salmon fishery off Barkley Sound on Vancouver Island has already been impacted: Chub mackerel, moving north, have devoured young salmon as they head out into the Pacific Ocean from the Robertson Creek Hatchery.
 
Local scientists return from four-month trip along California Current
Group made rare discoveries due to warmer weather
ABC 10 News, December 10, 2014
SAN DIEGO - Warm water is bringing new life to the waters of the Pacific, according to local researchers who returned Wednesday from a four-month voyage...A crew of 30 members, including 15 scientists from NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, made a lot of rare discoveries on their four-month trip off the coast up to Canada along waters called the California Current.