Where have all the salmon gone?

Stephen Hume
August 25, 2009
Vancouver Sun

Approximately 130 million baby sockeye from the Chilko, Quesnel and other interior river systems -- the largest producers of the most valuable commercial stocks on the Fraser system -- appear to have vanished during their annual migration to the sea in 2007. 

This season's shortfall in predicted returns of sockeye salmon -- fewer than two million of the predicted 10.6 million are now expected to return -- actually points to something really troubling, a possible ecological catastrophe on a vast scale somewhere in the lower Fraser or the Strait of Georgia.

Read the full story in The Vancouver Sun

See the record of the September 21st, 2009 on-line discussion with Dr. Brian Riddell, CEA of the Pacific Salmon Foundation on the Globe and Mail on the topic of "Where have all the salmon gone?"

Read related story in The Campbell River Mirror - "Where have all the salmon gone?"

Read background news stories on the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye