Alaska Wins Major Legal Battle to Protect Cook Inlet Salmon Fishery - Alaska Native News

Alaska Wins Major Legal Battle to Protect Cook Inlet Salmon Fishery - Alaska Native News

(Anchorage, AK) – In a significant victory for Alaska’s salmon fishery, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) decision to adopt Amendment 16 to the federal salmon fishery plan for the Cook Inlet Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This ruling confirms that NMFS is not required to regulate salmon fishing within […] The post Alaska Wins Major Legal Battle to Protect Cook Inlet Salmon Fishery appear…

Kwikwetlem First Nation releases thousands of salmon in decades long effort to revive sockeye – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Rodney Lee helping the fish acclimatize to the lake’s temperature. photo Kwikwetlem First Nation At the end of last month, Kwikwetlem First Nation released its first hatchery-raised salmon into the Coquitlam Watershed, marking a historic moment for the nation. “Having the elders present to participate was a really wonderful moment,” Rodney Lee, Kwikwetlem’s coordinator of fisheries and the hatchery, told the Dispatch. “And then being able to hav…

Decades of data re-examined: Salmon farms pose minimal risk to wild stocks says study

Peer-reviewed study challenges narrative on salmon farm pathogen risk. A new academic review challenges the dominant scientific and political consensus that open-net pen salmon farming poses a long-term threat to wild salmon stocks. The paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, argues that the evidence for harm from farm-origin pathogens is overstated, [...]

Scientists Sink Ottawa’s Case for Banning Salmon Farms in B.C. Waters

SeaWestNews New peer-reviewed study exposes flawed science, misrepresented risks, and activist influence behind Trudeau-era plan to eliminate ocean-based salmon aquaculture in British Columbia The post Scientists Sink Ottawa’s Case for Banning Salmon Farms in B.C. Waters appeared first on Sea West News.