Habitat Restoration Wild Salmon, Updated Nov 26, 2020

I will use this post to put up habitat restoration projects for wild BC salmon, and other jurisdictions. These small projects, many funded by the Pacific Salmon Foundation, should be the backbone of restoration and bringing back wild salmon:
I will put in some related news as well.

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18. $24,000 for Habitat Restoration Projects - Parksvile, Qualicum: https://www.pqbnews.com/community/24000-granted-to-parksville-qualicum-beach-projects-via-pacific-salmon-foundation/?mc_cid=3cada652f8&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

17. Two Dams to be Pulled - US, for salmon: .

16. Sturgeon Bank Restoration Projects - group asks for council money: .

15. Habitat Restoration Funding - Haida Gwaii, 12 projects, $162K funding, PSF: .

14. New Channel - Penticton, for sockeye and chinook: https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/309153/More-work-to-restore-salmon-habitat-in-Penticton-to-begin?mc_cid=b0bb6c9d6c&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

13. A List of Habitat Conservation Trust Fund Projects - BC, : https://hctf.ca/hctf-announces-2020-21-list-of-approved-conservation-projects-across-bc/.

12. Habitat Conservation Trust Fund - funds a great number of grassroots projects in BC: https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/conservation-projects-in-b-c-receive-9-2m-in-funds-from-victoria-based-foundation/.

11. Departure Creek, Nanaimo - a good example of getting in the stream and fixing it, and the groups that come together, for years, to make it happen: https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/nanaimo-creek-restoration-meant-to-make-habitat-more-fish-friendly/?mc_cid=b0bb6c9d6c&mc_eid=5777c92bcd .

10. DFO Should Enforce Fish Farm Regs, Not Pay for Cleanups - : https://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/column-dfo-should-enforce-regulations-not-pay-for-cleanup/?mc_cid=5dcc17bb46&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

9. Salmon Runs Worst Ever - Alaska and BC: http://www.digitaljournal.com/business/alaska-and-b-c-s-salmon-runs-expected-to-be-worst-ever-recorded/article/576244?mc_cid=5dcc17bb46&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

8. Four Reasons Salmon in the Tank - Narwhal, Greg Taylor: https://thenarwhal.ca/low-fraser-river-sockeye-salmon-bc/?mc_cid=5dcc17bb46&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

7. Pilchuk Dam to Come Down - freeing up 37 miles of habitat for spawning, US: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-washington-miles-salmon-habitat.html?mc_cid=0f1f93dac2&mc_eid=5777c92bcd .

6. Nooksack Restoration Underway - WA: https://kgmi.com/news/007700-fish-habitat-improvements-underway-in-birch-bay/?mc_cid=0f1f93dac2&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

5. Projects in the Saanich Peninsula for Salmon - : https://peninsulastreams.ca/.

4. Fish Ladder on Alouette Dam: https://www.mapleridgenews.com/opinion/along-the-fraser-fish-ladder-for-alouette-dam-would-boost-threatened-wild-sockeye/?mc_cid=0f1f93dac2&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

3. Worst Salmon Numbers Ever - 285,000 sockeye for Fraser when it was 100 million at the beginning of the 20th century: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/2020-fraser-river-sockeye-record-1.5682765?mc_cid=0f1f93dac2&mc_eid=5777c92bcd. This is why we need tons of habitat restoration, because DFO has managed salmon into extinction.

2. Tillamook Wetland Purchase to aid Habitat Restoration - WA: https://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/news/tillamook-river-wetlands-restoration-will-improve-salmon-habitat/article_93c71ad6-d2bd-11ea-8fb1-177b774fa4c2.html?mc_cid=c036c27217&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

1. Project Funds for Vancouver Island Projects - Pacific Salmon Foundation: https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/salmon-foundation-provides-funding-for-habitat-rehab-1.24180612?mc_cid=c036c27217&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

Big Bar Slide - The News

This post will build a list of articles and science about the Big Bar Slide and salmon that aim for rivers above the blockage. Here are some, along with habitat resurrection in other rivers:

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5. Big Bar Passage Impoving - 151,000 salmon above the slide: https://www.theprogress.com/news/permanent-fish-passage-solutions-consdiered-at-big-bar-landslide/?mc_cid=ed8c063a21&mc_eid=2d9d06674b.
4. Big Bar Whoosh Moving More Salmon - : https://www.abbynews.com/news/salmon-arrive-in-larger-numbers-at-big-bar-landslide/?mc_cid=0f1f93dac2&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

3. DFO's Link to Information: http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pacific-smon-pacifique/big-bar-landslide-eboulement/index-eng.html
2. Habitat Resurrected for Chinook in Campbell River: https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/community/chinook-salmon-habitat-enhancement-returns-to-the-campbell-river/?mc_cid=a337269ada&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

1. Hatchery Resurrected to Raise Chinook Stocks from above the slide: https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/interior-hatchery-resurrected-to-incubate-chinook-fry-caught-at-big-bar-slide/?mc_cid=a337269ada&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

MOST POPULAR POSTS - JULY, 2020

Every month I put up a list of the posts that have received the most page-views on Fish Farm News and Science. The following received the most traffic in July, 2020.

1. BAD NEWS BITES - 5/5/17 - : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/05/bad-news-bites-fifth-post.html. This is one of 12 BNB posts, each of which summarizes the enormous amount of bad news on the fish farm/seafood industry. It is shocking. Take a look. Each has 500 problems and now, the total is approached 6,000. Yes, 6,000.

2. MOST POPULAR POSTS - 7/3/20 : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/07/most-popular-posts-june-2020.html. Each of these summarizes the most often viewed posts on this site, in a particular month, giving you immediate access to those that were hot.

3. DFO/SRKW/CHINOOK/FISH FARMS/DO SOMETHING: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html. This post has the famous Jim Gilbert/Jack Seedhouse photo of an enormous stringer of chinook from the Nahmint River.

4. Wild BC Salmon Plan - tell your MLA: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/02/wild-bc-salmon-plan-contact-your-mla.html. This has a salmon plan, a fish farms plan and the communication's language for getting rid of fish farms and putting them on-land.

5. Fake F___king Aquaculture Kills Everything - https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/fake-fking-aquaculture-kills-everything.html. "Under the world's worst acronym , DFO, in its 'impartiality', is putting together a plan to manage fish farms. It's acronym is: FARM - Framework for Aquaculture Risk Management, and it is indeed FAKE." This article also has the famous Jimmy Gilbert, Nahmint photo from the early 1960s.

6. BC Stats Report 2016: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/03/mar-21-2019-bc-stats-report-2016.html. This is one of the most important posts on this site to understand the revenue and employment in the 'fishing sectors' as they call them. You must read this one to be up on the figures: sport/commercial/processing/fish farms.

7. Fish Farm Spin - if you read only one article on fish farms this year, this should be the one. It answers all the problems and has an impeccable list of references: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/01/fish-farm-spin-dc-reid-read-this.html.