Steelhead in the News

Evidence Shows Tens of Thousands of Unwanted Salmon are Killed in Bycatch

For those of you who have not yet seen this morning’s press release and video from Watershed Watch, SkeenaWild, and Raincoast, with assistance from Headwaters Initiative, regarding discards and retention of prohibited species in north coast net fisheries this season.

http://www.watershed-watch.org/2013/08/media-release-new-evidence-shows-thousands-of-unwanted-salmon-are-needlessly-killed-when-no-one-is-watching-the-fishermen-groups-want-oversight

Media Coverage

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/video-proves-unwanted-salmon-being-left-for-dead-on-seiners-group-alleges/article13790930/

http://www.timescolonist.com/poor-oversight-of-b-c-fishermen-killing-prohibited-salmon-say-environmentalists-1.589804

http://www.vancouversun.com/Environmental+groups+decry+loss+bycatch+salmon+northern+pink+fishery/8793335/story.html

For those of you who have not yet seen this morning’s press release and video from Watershed Watch, SkeenaWild, and Raincoast, with assistance from Headwaters Initiative, regarding discards and retention of prohibited species in north coast net fisheries this season.

http://www.watershed-watch.org/2013/08/media-release-new-evidence-shows-thousands-of-unwanted-salmon-are-needlessly-killed-when-no-one-is-watching-the-fishermen-groups-want-oversight

Media Coverage

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/video-proves-unwanted-salmon-being-left-for-dead-on-seiners-group-alleges/article13790930/

http://www.timescolonist.com/poor-oversight-of-b-c-fishermen-killing-prohibited-salmon-say-environmentalists-1.589804

http://www.vancouversun.com/Environmental+groups+decry+loss+bycatch+salmon+northern+pink+fishery/8793335/story.html