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‘Like doomsday’: why have salmon deserted Norway’s rivers – and will they ever return?
2024-08-29 in The GuardianNorth Atlantic populations are at a historic low, and this year 33 of the country’s rivers were closed during the fishing season as salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish’s future
Salmon return to Derbyshire river for first time in a century
2024-07-28 (or before) by in knews.kathimerini.com.cyAfter years of feeding in the ocean, these salmon have an incredible ability to return hundreds of miles upstream to the same river stretch where they were born to breed and lay eggs.
US admits dams in Pacific north-west have devastated Native Americans
2024-06-19 in The GuardianUS says dams killed off salmon, inundated villages and burial grounds, and spirited wealth away from tribes
Tagged under: Hydroelectricity | Oregon | Washington State | Salmon | Fish
Scottish salmon industry challenged over move to drop ‘farmed’ from labels
2024-05-07 in The GuardianFish welfare campaigners say Defra decision facilitates greenwashing and will mislead consumers
Mass salmon deaths are a warning: no one should be eating this fish
2024-03-10 by in inews.co.ukMortalities of this scale tell us something is profoundly wrong with the way we raise these animals for our consumption
Mass die-offs among farmed salmon on the rise around the world
2024-03-08 in The BBCWarmer seas and greater reliance on technology are linked to hundreds of millions of farmed salmon deaths.
‘Unacceptable greenwashing’: Scottish farmed salmon should not be labelled organic, say charities
2024-01-30 in The GuardianOpen letter calls for Soil Association certification to be removed from industry, amid concerns of negative environmental impact
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
Fury as water firm begins pumping wastewater into one of Britain's most celebrated river that is famed for its salmon and trout fishing | Daily Mail Online
2024-01-27 (or before) in Daily Mail OnlineFurious residents living on the banks of the Test chalk stream in Hampshire have said planned pumping works from Southern Water could introduce 'an Olympic swimming pool' of sewage into the river.'
Tagged under: Fish | Rivers | Salmon
Animal rights group urges halt to ‘monstrous’ Lincolnshire salmon farm
2023-12-27 in The GuardianOnshore farm that campaigners say would be UK’s biggest was given planning go-ahead without environmental check
Chris Packham calls for halt to ‘catastrophic’ expansion of Scottish salmon farms
2023-12-11 in The GuardianBroadcaster and RSPCA president says moratorium needed as mortality rates jump, while activists question charity’s role in certifying farms
Tagged under: Fish | UK | Salmon | Activism
There's a crisis in the Yukon River
2023-12-03 in YahooEAGLE VILLAGE, Alaska - When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the thousands. But after rebuilding her sled dog team as an adult, Potts-Joseph, a member of the Han Gwich'in tribe, had to turn to store-bought dog food. The river that was once renowned for its salmon doesn't have enough to offer anymore.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and in
Tagged under: Rivers | Salmon | Alaska
Struggling salmon fishermen getting federal help in Oregon and along West Coast, but it may be too late - OPB
2023-10-23 in Oregon Public BroadcastingU.S. Department of Commerce declared a Chinook fishery disaster for 2018, 2019 and 2020 when salmon populations plummeted.
Tagged under: Oregon | Fish | Salmon
Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly
2023-09-30 in The GuardianAquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
‘Monstrous’ sea lice and jellyfish invasions blighting Scottish salmon farms
2023-09-16 in The GuardianVegan charity and its drones reveal that parasites are infesting fish reared for UK supermarkets
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
Ocean salmon fishing ban off California and Oregon as stocks plummet
2023-03-24 in The GuardianAdult fall-run Chinook salmon returned to California’s rivers in near record low numbers in 2022
Tagged under: Oregon | Oceans | Fish | Rivers | Salmon | California
Salmon deaths on Scotland’s fish farms double – but are jellyfish to blame?
2023-01-15 in The GuardianMarine farmers point finger at jellyfish swarms but campaigners call for boycott to curb ‘ever-worsening problem’ of overcrowding
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
US gets 1 bid for oil and gas lease in Alaska’s Cook Inlet
2023-01-07 (or before) in mixfmalaska.com(AP) - The U.S. government on Friday said it received on bid for the right to drill offshore for oil and gas in Alaska’s Cook Inlet near habitat for bears, salmon, humpback whales and endangered beluga whales.
Tagged under: Whales and Dolphins | Salmon | Alaska
Fish farms scrutinised as antibiotic use soars
2022-12-04 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesDependence on antibiotics in aqua- culture has surged despite widespread efforts to reduce the use of drugs by intensive farmers.Salmon farms in Scotland deploy
Tens of thousands of salmon found dead in Canada
2022-10-08 (or before) in The BBCResearchers in British Columbia discovered a shocking sight when they walked to the creek.
Tagged under: Salmon
Record low wild salmon catch in Scotland alarms ecologists
2022-06-01 in The GuardianCalls for action as decline is seen as evidence of harm caused by climate crisis, pollution and fish farming
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
Major New Zealand salmon producer shuts farms as warming waters cause mass die-offs
2022-05-26 in The GuardianUp to 42% of company’s fish have died in warm water areas this year, with CEO warning climate change is ‘faster than people think’
Tagged under: Climate Change | Pacific Ocean | Fish | Salmon
Salmon & Trout Conservation
2021-09-13 (or before) in WildFish | Working To Protect Wild Fish & Their WatersOur vision at Salmon & Trout Conservation is to keep our waters wild. We campaign for sustainable water environment which support an abundance of wild fish.
Dismay at Scottish Government's continuing refusal to address the serious environmental issues associated with Scotland’s salmon farming industry - Salmon & Trout Conservation
2021-09-01 in WildFish | Working To Protect Wild Fish & Their WatersAndrew Graham Stewart explores Scottish Government's continued refusal to address environmental impact of salmon farming
Tagged under: Salmon
Video shows salmon injured by unlivable water temperatures after heatwave
2021-07-27 in The GuardianA conservation group recorded the video after a heatwave in the Pacific north-west on a day when water temperatures breached 70F
Tagged under: Heatwaves | Pacific Ocean | Fish | Rivers | Salmon | Washington State
Thriving Together: Salmon, Berries, and People | Hakai Magazine
2021-07-19 (or before) by in Hakai MagazineThe salmonberry plant has nourished and healed Indigenous communities of the Pacific Northwest coast for countless generations, but its significance goes far beyond its value as food.
Tagged under: Salmon
Why Environmental Management Plans are doomed to fail - Salmon & Trout Conservation
2021-06-17 in WildFish | Working To Protect Wild Fish & Their WatersWhy Environmental Management Plans will fail on their own basis and in their attempt to protect wild salmon from sea lice.
Tagged under: Salmon
Pesticide-resistant blood-sucking lice threaten wild and farmed fish
2021-05-27 (or before) by in New ScientistSalmon Nation
2020-12-16 (or before) in Salmon Nation TrustTagged under: Salmon
Salmon Feed Forests - Pacific Wild
2020-11-15 by in Great Bear Rainforest Conservation | BCSalmon feed forests? Yep. Salmon feed killer whales, sea lions, bears, eagles and wolves which decompose into fertilizer for forests.
Migratory river fish populations plunge 76% in past 50 years
2020-07-27 in The GuardianDecline in species such as salmon harms entire ecosystems and livelihoods, say researchers
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Rivers | Salmon | Wildlife
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