Salmon Disappearance Causes Ecological Disaster
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Conservationists warn that the steep drop in wild salmon numbers from the province's coast is causing death by starvation of the bears...

Authorities Criticised over Salmon Returns
CANADA - An environmental organisation has accused the Britisah Columbian authorities of not doing enough to ensure the welfare of salmon returning to the province's...

Chilean Salmon Farms Halved
CHILE - Chile has seen a drop in the number of salmon farming centres fall by 55 per cent over the last year.

Salmon Virus Outbreak Offers Opportunity
CANADA - The virus that has hit fish farms in Chile could become a bonus for British Columbia's salmon farmers - if they can take advantage.

ISA in Chile Boosts Salmon Prices in Canada
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Salmon prices are rising as the result of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) hitting supplies from Chile.

Drop in BC Sockeye Salmon Numbers a Mystery
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada - Experts say cuts to research grants will make it difficult to determine why more than nine million sockeye will not return to the Fraser...

Wild Fish Interests Condemn Farmed Salmon Escape
SCOTLAND, UK - The Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland (RAFTS) and the Association of Salmon Fishery Boards (ASFB) have condemned a large escape of juvenile...

Pink Salmon Returns to BC
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Pink salmon are returning in abundant numbers to the Glendale River this year.

Organic Salmon Farm Back in Production
IRELAND - Glenarm Organic Salmon, an early 'casualty' of global warming, is now back in business.

Pink Salmon Making Major Comeback
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - After being rendered virtually extinct in the Nanaimo harbour since the 1950s, pink salmon are now returning to the area by the thous...

Double-Digit Fall in Chile's Salmon Harvest
CHILE - Statistics for the first half-year of 2009 reveal that the total harvest of salmon and trout was 17 per cent lower than the same period of last year. On...

US $18 Million to Build a Recirculation Hatchery
CHILE - The salmon company controlled by the Sarquis family, Salmones Itata, would invest US$ 18 million to install and implement a recirculation hatchery in Region...

Fish Farming Not The Only Culprit In Salmon Decline
CANADA - Many people say that fishing for salmon along Canada's West Coast is not what it used to be.

Infrared Technology Helping To Save Fish
US - A partnership between J.D. Irving Limited and the Canadian Rivers Institute is producing some of the first thermal maps in New Brunswick to protect fragile...

Chile's Salmon Exports Lower in First Half-Year
CHILE - Exports of salmon were 4.8 per cent lower in the first six months of 2009 than a year earlier.

California Unites to Defend its Fish from Industry
US - A broad coalition of fishing, environmental groups and tribes recently filed papers in federal court defending California's native salmon.

Scottish Petition Says Save Our Salmon
SCOTLAND - Salmon and Trout Association petition calls on Scottish Government to act without delay – by relocating salmon farms away from the estuaries of major...

Salmon Supply Squeeze to Persist
CHILE - Marine Harvest ASA, the world’s largest salmon farmer, expects supply to fall short of demand as Chile’s output will take as many as six years to...

Salmon Reintroduced to Souris River
CANADA - Conservation groups are releasing 15,000 Atlantic salmon into Prince Edward Island rivers this year, including the Souris River, where there have been no...

Wild Salmon Discovered in New York's Salmon River
US - Scientists recently discovered wild young Atlantic salmon in New York’s Salmon River.

B.C. Farmers Protest at Aqua Nor
NORWAY - The presence of the federal fisheries minister at an international aquaculture trade show this week sent the wrong message to British Columbia's beleaguered...

Scotland, Norway Fish Farm Collaboration Welcomed
GENERAL - Chief Executive of Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation has welcomed collaboration between Scottish and Norwegian governments.

Reintroducing Coho in Washington Counties
PORTLAND - The Bonneville Power Administration will hold two open-house-style public meetings in Leavenworth, Wash., and Twisp, Wash., this week as an initial step...

Sockeye Collapse: BC Indian Chiefs Accuse DFO
CANADA - An Aborigine chief and Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs has stated his horror at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans ignorance to...

Collapsing Salmon Runs: Farmers Reject Blame
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - The BC Salmon Farmers Association is again defending Canadian farmers against criticism over their potential effect on wild salmon st...