Salmon are resilient, but man-made obstacles combined with the threat of climate change may be more than they can handle. In this short film produced in conjunction with the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), Wild Salmon Center explores what we can do to affect the future of not only salmon, but the future of all the species that depend on them, including our own.
Full text of S. 1401 Salmon Stronghold Bill.
A truly effective salmon conservation effort in California requires state, federal, and tribal resource managers along with leading non-governmental agencies to prioritize, coordinate, and fund landscape-scale strategies to conserve the healthiest wild salmon ecosystems – known as “salmon strongholds” – across jurisdictional boundaries, in partnership with local stakeholders. To reach that goal, the effort must first identify threats and needs in each of California’s identified strongholds.
Today’s public perception is that we can benefit — and in some cases recover – wild salmon through hatcheries. From our earliest school years we’re exposed to the notion of hatcheries as a tool for rebuilding salmon populations. But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests they may have the opposite effect. This apparent paradox is the subject of an international State of the Salmon conference starting today in Portland.
How a vast, volcano-strewn wilderness in Siberia came to be one of the last strongholds for Pacific salmon.
With the help of local volunteers and non-profit groups, North Olympic Land Trust looks to be on track for an early June public unveiling of the Elk Creek Conservation Area.
Map depicting the Ozernaya fishery on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.
"If the declining trend in production continues for both rearing types, modifications to the hatchery program are needed to improve survival, or an emphasis on improving the abundances of wild stocks is necessary, or both."
The Sakhalin taimen Parahucho perryi is an endangered salmonid with a natural range limited to the Russian Far East and Japan. We constructed a classification tree to determine the environmental factors shaping the historical global distribution of this species and then predicted its potential geographic range.
The Nature Conservancy and Rayonier has announced the sale of 3,088 acres along the Clearwater River in Jefferson County near the Washington coast.