The run of pink salmon in British Columbia’s Fraser River is exceeding expectations this summer season.
The Pacific Salmon Commission is rising its projections of pink salmon returns to probably 11.6 million, up from an estimate of between 6.1 million and eight.6 million fish.
The fee, which was fashioned by the governments of Canada and the United States in 1985 to implement the Pacific Salmon Treaty, says the rise is predicated on the “abundance” of pink salmon being caught in marine check fisheries in B.C. coastal waters.
Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders recommend the larger-than-forecast returns are linked to the closure of open-net Atlantic salmon farms off the Discovery Islands on the pink salmon migration routes.
The salmon fee says it couldn’t touch upon these recommendations and nobody from Fisheries and Oceans Canada was instantly accessible.
Open-net fish farms off B.C.’s coast are a long-running topic of debate, with environmental teams and a few Indigenous nations saying the farms are linked to the switch of illness to wild salmon, whereas the trade and a few native politicians say 1000’s of jobs are threatened if the operations are phased out.
