Winner of 2022 Phillips Brewing Benefit Brew
September 21, 2022
The Salmon Watersheds Program has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the Phillips Brewing Benefit Brew! One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of the Benefit Brew (a delicious Mango Hazy ISA) goes directly to the Salmon Watersheds Program so we can continue our work to strengthen the baseline of scientific information available for wild Pacific salmon populations and their habitats. This work includes the Pacific Salmon Explorer, an online data visualization tool that characterizes the state of salmon populations and current human and environmental pressures on their freshwater habitats. ...
Read moreColumbia River salmon data now available in the Pacific Salmon Explorer
May 3, 2022
The best publicly-available data for Pacific salmon in the Columbia River watershed is now available in the Pacific Salmon Explorer, an online data visualization tool developed by the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s (PSF) Salmon Watersheds Program, which now includes data on 90 per cent of salmon in B.C. The addition of the Columbia to the Pacific Salmon Explorer provides a snapshot of local salmon populations and current human and environmental pressures on their freshwater habitats. ...
Read moreSummer 2022 Sustainability Scholars Program Internship Opportunity
January 4, 2022
The Salmon Watersheds Program is pleased to be partnering with the UBC Sustainability Initiative to offer current UBC graduate students the opportunity to work on the following Fraser Estuary Research Collaborative (FERC) project. The FERC is focused on advancing efforts to protect the Fraser River estuary in collaboration with key NGO and Indigenous partners. If you are interested in producing new knowledge and supporting Fraser estuary protection through scientific, technical, governance and policy innovations, the following project might be for you. Read on for more details. ...
Background & Overview Read moreHaida Gwaii Data Added to the Pacific Salmon Explorer
December 8, 2021
The Pacific Salmon Foundation's (PSF) Salmon Watersheds Program is pleased to publicly release a comprehensive overview of salmon Conservation Units and their habitats for Haida Gwaii on the Pacific Salmon Explorer, a PSF tool that provides data that is essential in understanding the status of salmon, threats to their habitats, and for prioritizing salmon restoration and recovery strategies. The PSE update adds information on 765 salmon populations to the tool. This addition provides decision-makers with the most comprehensive open source information available to support decision making for salmon watersheds in Haida Gwaii. ...
Read moreA Vision for Salmon Monitoring and Stewardship on British Columbia’s Central Coast
February 22, 2021
A new report co-authored by the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s (PSF) Salmon Watersheds Program, the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance (CCIRA), the Kitasoo/ Xai’xais, Nuxalk, Heiltsuk, and Wuikinuxv First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and regional Charter Patrolmen, outlines a vision for monitoring and stewarding Pacific salmon on the Central Coast of British Columbia (BC). ...
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