The Strait of Georgia recreational fishery once generated about $750 million for local communities, but literally disappeared between 1993-95. Now recent catches of Chinook and Colo are less than one-tenth of past levels.
Twenty years is long enough.
Learn about the $20 million Salish Sea Marine Survival Project to restore Chinook and Coho in the Strait of Georgia and Salish Sea.
The Community Salmon Program funds volunteer community-led salmon conservation projects. Volunteers operate hatcheries, run classroom education programs and volunteer thousands of hours restoring and monitoring salmon habitat. On average, local communities raise $7 for every $1 granted through the program. Since 1989, the program has restored more than 1.1 million square meters of stream habitat and engaged 35,000 volunteers across B.C.
Some of B.C.'s most fertile agricultural land coincides with salmon habitat. The Salmon-Safe program provides an economic market-based incentive to farmers to use salmon-friendly farming practices that protect salmon habitat. Learn how your consumer power can help protect salmon by purchasing Salmon-Safe produce, wine, vodka, nuts and even Christmas Trees!
The role of infectious diseases and fish farms in wild salmon declines is still unknown. That's why the Pacific Salmon Foundation launched a multi-million dollar genomic study with Fisheries and Oceans Canada Pacific Biological Station and Genome B.C.
The Salmon Health Initiative will mark the first-time genomic technology is being used to clarify our understanding of wild salmon.
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