BC Fisheries News Watch August 01 to August 9, 2013
News: Fraser River sockeye run looks promising
By Phil Melnychuk - Maple Ridge News, Published: August 01, 2013
...Early returns are looking good, but the jury is still out on the main summer run of sockeye, says Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
http://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/218021981.html
News: Think Pink Salmon
Campbell River Mirror, August 2, 2013
The Pacific Salmon Foundation held its second annual Pink Salmon Festival last Saturday at Robert Ostler Park. Foundation volunteer Larry E. Stefanyk was the driving force behind the festival which celebrates the return of the pink salmon to its spawning grounds and promotes pink salmon as a sustainable seafood choice.
http://www.campbellrivermirror.com/community/218003551.html
News: Low Skeena salmon rates lead to Kitsumkalum BBQ cancellation
CKTK, Allison Bench, August 01, 2013
http://www.cftktv.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=2017583
News: Canadian, U.S. fisheries managers wait anxiously for summer sockeye returns
Disastrous Fraser River runs spurred federal Cohen Commission four years ago
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun August 5, 2013
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/Canadian+fisheries+managers+wait+anxiously+summer+sockeye/8750454/story.html
News: EDITORIAL: Fishery doesn't smell good
Penticton Western News, August 1, 2013
As it has in the past few years, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is going ahead with a recreational sockeye salmon fishery on Osoyoos Lake, despite a large drop in the number of salmon returning to spawn in the Okanagan River.
http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/opinion/218023181.html
News: The cost of Fraser Sockeye Salmon expected to rise
A decline in stock is to blame
News 1130, Anita Bathe, August 6, 2013
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – You can expect to pay more for Fraser Sockeye Salmon this year and several local fisherman are blaming the federal government for not acting on recommendations made by the Cohen Commission to fix the decline in stock.
http://www.news1130.com/2013/08/06/the-cost-of-fraser-sockeye-salmon-expected-to-rise/
News: Brief rain spells death for salmon fry in Port Coquitlam
By Editorial - The Tri-City News, Published: August 06, 2013
Last week's cool, refreshing rain meant death to hundreds of fish in Hyde Creek in Port Coquitlam...Black water that collected in pools containing the dead fish was sent to a lab for confirmation but it was likely oil and other residue from the road that killed the salmon.
http://www.tricitynews.com/news/218581741.html
News: Okanagan Nation Okay with fishery
By Steve Kidd - Penticton Western News, Published: August 06, 2013
Lower numbers of sockeye salmon coming upstream this year isn’t a cause for worry according to a fisheries biologist with the Okanagan Nation Alliance.
http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/news/218605711.html
News: Sparse sockeye run is an echo of 2009
MARK HUME, VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail, Published Thursday, Aug. 08 2013
Four years after a salmon run so disastrous it sparked a federal inquiry, fisheries managers are watching with concern as sockeye trickle into the Fraser in lower numbers and later in the season than anticipated.
Uncertain how many more fish might be coming and worried about warm water in the river, fisheries managers have allowed no commercial or sport harvest of sockeye in the Fraser so far this season. First Nations have been greatly limited in their catches.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/sparse-sockeye-run-is-an-echo-of-2009/article13654649/?cmpid=rss1
News: Everyone awaits news on Fraser sockeye openings
By Jennifer Feinberg - Chilliwack Progress,August 08, 2013
High water temperatures in the Fraser River are always a concern when it comes to wild sockeye survival. Everyone from the commercial fleet to recreational fishers are waiting to see if the summer run is going to be big enough to sustain sockeye openings by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
http://www.theprogress.com/news/218918761.html
News: Gravel placement in Campbell River goes well
By Neil Cameron, The Courier-Islander August 9, 2013
...And so too will be the salmon this fall when they find tons of new spawning gravel that was placed into the Campbell River this week by the Campbell River Salmon Foundation...Meanwhile Quinsam River staff were doing a snorkel survey of the river. The turbidity caused by the gravel placement resulted in only about a 30 per cent visibility. With that the count showed 5,150 pinks, five chinooks and three steelhead.
Low water conditions are thought to be slowing migration into the river this year, but another 13,000 pinks have been counted upriver of the hatchery fence on the Quinsam River.
http://www.canada.com/Gravel+placement+Campbell+River+goes+well/8766715/story.html
News: Sockeye season called the worst in three decades
By Shaun Thomas - The Northern View, August 07, 2013
Joy Thorkelson of the United Fishermen and Allied Worker's Union (UFAWU) is pulling no punches when it comes to discussing the 2013 commercial fishing season. "I've never seen it this bad, and I've been here for 30 years," she said, adding she lost any sense of optimism for this year a month ago.
http://www.thenorthernview.com/news/218581661.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_618805414820953_83737316_618888034812691#f2813f4f0c
News: Vancouver faces charges for allegedly releasing sewage into Burrard Inlet
Vancouver Sun August 8, 2013
...Environment Canada last month filed charges under the Fisheries Act against the regional district, after raw sewage from a combined overflow pipe near Brockton Point allegedly poured into the waters around Stanley Park.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/Metro+Vancouver+faces+charges+allegedly+releasing+sewage+into/8764159/story.html
