$10 Million Research Project Will Study Why Fraser River Salmon are Dying
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Tri City News] Diane Strandberg - October 6, 2016
Pacific Salmon Foundation in the midst of a five-year, $10 million research project
Many problems for fish have been identified, from over-fishing and poor management in the 1980s and 1990s to warmer oceans, decreased food sources, predation by seals, impacts of open-net salmon farming, reduced habitat and even concerns that hatchery-raised fish are out-competing wild salmon for food.
“The decline is very real and it was very sudden, beginning in the 1990s,” said Brian Riddell, president and CEO of PSF, an independent, non-government organization.
Forty years ago, when the federal government ...
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