Wild Salmon Restoration Projects - Updated Nov 7, 2019

Time to add a new direction for this blog, which focuses on the damage done to the environment and wild salmon by the fish farm industry.

In this one, I'll start building a list of good projects/ideas focused on wild salmon:

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17. Salmon to be Reintroduced to Columbia - several municipalities agree: https://www.revelstokereview.com/news/project-to-reintroduce-salmon-to-the-columbia-river-system-continues/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=6a9607cb4e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_07_01_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-6a9607cb4e-166907249&mc_cid=6a9607cb4e&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

16. Big Bar Landslide Work - : https://cfjctoday.com/2019/11/06/crews-expected-to-work-on-big-bar-landslide-site-through-the-winter/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=6a9607cb4e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_07_01_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-6a9607cb4e-166907249&mc_cid=6a9607cb4e&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

15. Okanagan River Restoration Committee - first sockeye in 50 years, Penticton: https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-268600-21-.htm?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=128c512827-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_23_07_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-128c512827-166907249&mc_cid=128c512827&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

14. Restoration Isn't Cheap - $30M for Penticton's Ellis Creek: https://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/news/ellis-creek-restoration-comes-with-30-million-price-tag-for-penticton/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=128c512827-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_23_07_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-128c512827-166907249&mc_cid=128c512827&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

13. BC Wildlife Federation Calls for Management Change - no netting of salmon: https://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/north-okanagan-salmon-expert-supports-calls-for-change-in-salmon-management/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=128c512827-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_23_07_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-128c512827-166907249&mc_cid=128c512827&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

12. Hatchery Fish and Wild Salmon Genetics - science: https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/hatchery-programs-likely-causing-weakening-of-wild-salmon-populations?utm_source=Watershed%20Watch%20Email%20List&utm_campaign=ca899b6bf5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_12_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-ca899b6bf5-166907249&mc_cid=ca899b6bf5&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

11. Salmon Safe Certification - for Paine Field airport work on behalf of salmon: https://myedmondsnews.com/2019/09/paine-field-earns-salmon-safe-certification/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=18ee657405-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_25_11_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-18ee657405-166907249&mc_cid=18ee657405&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

10. Opening Up Walls for Salmon - Fraser R., from Watershed Watch, Raincoast Conservation Foundation: https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/09/22/humans-have-walled-off-salmon-from-vital-habitat-advocates-say-its-time-to-tear-open-some-holes.html?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=18ee657405-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_25_11_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-18ee657405-166907249&mc_cid=18ee657405&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

9. Heart of the Fraser Project - ENGO thoughts on it: https://globalnews.ca/news/5937141/heart-of-the-fraser-conservation/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=18ee657405-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_25_11_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-18ee657405-166907249&mc_cid=18ee657405&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

8. Habitat Work - WA, several projects, including two dams and a fish trap:  http://www.yelmonline.com/opinion/article_ea190a8c-d0b8-11e9-9b87-6fde5520678c.html?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=e796540934-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_11_08_58&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-e796540934-166907249&mc_cid=e796540934&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

7. Money for Salmon Habitat Restoration - do note this is on the fish farm shill, SeaWestNews and there are loads of fake news articles on the site;  https://seawestnews.com/five-new-b-c-programs-to-enhance-salmon-habitat/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=12614b0b79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_28_11_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-12614b0b79-166907249&mc_cid=12614b0b79&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

6. Record 2500 salmon Choppered Above Slide - Big Bar, one day:  https://cfjctoday.com/2019/08/21/record-number-of-fish-choppered-above-the-big-bar-slide-monday/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=12614b0b79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_28_11_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-12614b0b79-166907249&mc_cid=12614b0b79&mc_eid=5777c92bcd. What this means is that my plan to feed orcas with helicopters moving live tanks of netted returning chinook to the Nitinat and Cowichan makes a great deal of sense. Should be done in August of 2019.

5. Salmon Moved by Helicopters - Big Bar slide on Fraser, 39,000 so far:  https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/limited-fish-passage-through-landslide-obstruction-on-fraser-river-dfo?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=12614b0b79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_28_11_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-12614b0b79-166907249&mc_cid=12614b0b79&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

4. Habitat Protecting Laws - DFO, this changes the HADD provision back to its useful form and also has other clauses. While the devil is in the detail, this one should be useful for protecting wild salmon:  https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/full-protections-for-fish-and-fish-habitat-under-the-modernized-fisheries-act-now-in-force-804950324.html?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=12614b0b79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_28_11_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-12614b0b79-166907249&mc_cid=12614b0b79&mc_eid=5777c92bcd. Do note that I have written extensively on the negative issues in the laws for salmon: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/dfos-public-consultation-on-framework.html. 
See links 19, 20, 21 for the problem with laws.

3. Volunteers Take Down Pink Salmon Impeding Dams - Squamish: https://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/squamish-volunteers-opening-up-man-made-dams-stopping-pink-salmon-1.23927913?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=12614b0b79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_28_11_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-12614b0b79-166907249&mc_cid=12614b0b79&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

2.  Whooshh Sends Salmon Over Dams - : https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/us/salmon-cannon-twitter-trnd/index.html?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=d0c5eee841-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_14_09_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-d0c5eee841-166907249&mc_cid=d0c5eee841&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

1. Helping Threatened Coho Creates Hundreds of Millions of $$ in Non-market Benefits: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-threatened-coho-salmon-hundreds-millions.html?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=d0c5eee841-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_14_09_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-d0c5eee841-166907249&mc_cid=d0c5eee841&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.