Here’s to healthy and sustainable salmon stocks for healthy bears!
Here’s to healthy and sustainable salmon stocks for healthy bears!
A recently discovered 500-year-old Alaskan settlement is rapidly disappearing into the Bering Sea.
The exquisitely preserved frozen site provides a spectacular insight into the Yup’ik Eskimo culture.
As the Arctic sea ice continues to decrease today, many indigenous communities are under threat from changes in the weather, but also from changes in the abundance of subsistence food stocks such as salmon and seals.
Read on for great insights, climate change impact and predictive futures…
Excerpts: In 1961, the United States and Canada ratified the Columbia River Treaty - Either country can terminate the treaty, with 10 years written notice, on September 16, 2024 or later.
On both sides of the border, citizens and decision-makers are now working to decide the future of the 668,000 square kilometer Columbia Basin and this landmark international trans-boundary water treaty, whose significance reaches far beyond our borders to countries like Jordan and Palestine, as they negotiate over sharing of vanishingly small amounts of water.
The Columbia River is also home to one of the world’s largest salmon runs, with six different species traversing its length as they spawn, grow and return to their spawning grounds to repeat the cycle. Salmon populations have dropped drastically over the past century, in part due to development of dams that interrupt migration. All species on the river are important to biodiversity, but salmon have an irreplaceable cultural significance in the basin.
Lauren Klose
ACT Water Governance Intern
Masters Candidate, SCARP UBC
Please read on and thanks for the tweet @WaterPuppetry
$318,000 rehabilitation project on Tongass National Forest to start in June.
The Tongass National Forest will soon begin a major restoration project of wild salmon habitat on the Sitkoh River, in collaboration with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and non-profit groups.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/press-releases/article/USDA-Forest-Service-to-Restore-Critical-Salmon-3632726.php#ixzz1xmgJlpU3
Isn’t it great to see good news. Thanks to @DianeN56 for the tweet.
Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt discuss their latest film “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”.
The story requires the involvement of Britain’s leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable.
What do you think?!
@savewildsalmon
