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 1 to November 8 2013.
A Reference Link to our News watch from August to October 2013 is also provided.
Watch: Chum salmon returning to Still Creek, other urban areas, to spawn
By Amy Judd, Global News, November 7, 2013
...“The wonderful thing about seeing all these salmon come back into Burnaby and Vancouver is we’re seeing them recolonize waters where they haven’t been for many many decades,” says Mark Angelo, World Rivers Day chair. The Cariboo Dam was built in 1913, essentially cutting off these waterways
http://globalnews.ca/news/954362/watch-chum-salmon-returning-to-still-creek-other-urban-areas-to-spawn/
Salmon make a miraculous reappearance in East Vancouver
Chum salmon return to Still Creek for second year running, after an 80-year absence
CBC News Posted: Nov 05, 2013
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-make-a-miraculous-reappearance-in-east-vancouver-1.2416126
Salmon Spawing in the Middle of Vancouver
By Vancity Buzz | November 4, 2013
Salmon spawning in the middle of Vancouver?
What was thought to be impossible, Chum Salmon are once again spawning in Vancouver’s Still Creek. This is the second amazing year of spawning in Still Creek after an 80 year absence.
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/11/salmon-spawing-in-the-middle-of-vancouver/
- http://vancouverisawesome.com/2013/11/04/video-of-salmon-spawning-just-off-broadway-in-vancouver-shot-yesterday-seriously/
- https://www.facebook.com/PacificSalmonFoundation/posts/652329924799124
Chucking Chum: Dead fish help recharge a fishery
By Drew A. Penner, Comox Valley Echo November 5, 2013
Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Throw 6,500 fish into rivers and tributaries and you'll help feed fishermen for generations.
http://www.canada.com/Chucking+Chum+Dead+fish+help+recharge+fishery/9125404/story.html
News: Salmon returning to Millstone River
By Chris Bush - Nanaimo News Bulletin, Published: November 07, 2013
...Increasing numbers of salmon are swimming up the Millstone River, thanks in a big way to money provided by the Pacific Salmon Foundation, which in 2007 helped create the Millstone River side channel to give salmon an easier migration route around two steep waterfalls to get to spawning grounds upriver and in Brannen Lake.
http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/230745381.html
Record weekend for Saanich's Colquitz River salmon run
By Kyle Wells - Victoria News, Published: November 04, 2013
...The caretakers of the Colquitz River fish-counting fence are heralding this past weekend as the best in their 13-year history, with the heavy rainfall helping a record 450 salmon start making their way up the river to spawn.
http://www.vicnews.com/news/230537441.html
Large stocks of small salmon bode well for 2014
SF Gate. Tom Stienstra, Saturday, November 2, 2013
On clear, cool days this past week off the San Francisco coast, a spectacular twist crowned the year for salmon, whales and all the critters across the briny green. It was like looking into a crystal ball and seeing a golden future. High numbers of small salmon that will make up next year's catch suddenly appeared amid their big brothers. In addition, vast schools of krill and other feed showed up offshore in the vicinity of the Farallon Islands, and that attracted large numbers of humpback whales and blue whales.
http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Large-stocks-of-small-salmon-bode-well-for-2014-4950240.php
It’s time to get out and watch the salmon
Kitsap Sun, November 6, 2013
This year’s return of chum salmon to Hood Canal remains on track to break the record, coming in with four times as many fish as predicted earlier this year.
http://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2013/11/06/its-time-to-get-out-and-watch-the-salmon/#axzz2jvrUe5TK
Tracking First Moves Of Young Salmon In The Ocean
Red Orbit, November 8, 2013
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Knowledge informs efforts to restore endangered salmon stocks. Basic ocean conditions such as current directions and water temperature play a huge role in determining the behavior of young migrating salmon as they move from rivers and hit ocean waters for the first time, according to new research. The findings inform restoration policies and practices focused on boosting endangered salmon species in the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112998228/tracking-first-moves-young-salmon-in-the-ocean-110813/
Reference Link: News Watch - 2013 Wild Salmon Runs August to October 2013
http://www.farmfreshsalmon.org/news-watch-2013-wild-salmon-runs-august-october-2013
