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‘Like doomsday’: why have salmon deserted Norway’s rivers – and will they ever return?

  2024-08-29 in The Guardian

North 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

  Tagged under: Fish | Salmon


Salmon return to Derbyshire river for first time in a century

  2024-07-28 (or before) by in knews.kathimerini.com.cy

After 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.

  Tagged under: Salmon | Oceans


US admits dams in Pacific north-west have devastated Native Americans

  2024-06-19 in The Guardian

US 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 Guardian

Fish welfare campaigners say Defra decision facilitates greenwashing and will mislead consumers

  Tagged under: Fish | Salmon


Mass salmon deaths are a warning: no one should be eating this fish

  2024-03-10 by in inews.co.uk

Mortalities of this scale tell us something is profoundly wrong with the way we raise these animals for our consumption

  Tagged under: Fish | Salmon


Mass die-offs among farmed salmon on the rise around the world

  2024-03-08 in The BBC

Warmer seas and greater reliance on technology are linked to hundreds of millions of farmed salmon deaths.

  Tagged under: Salmon | Fish


‘Unacceptable greenwashing’: Scottish farmed salmon should not be labelled organic, say charities

  2024-01-30 in The Guardian

Open 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 Online

Furious 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 Guardian

Onshore farm that campaigners say would be UK’s biggest was given planning go-ahead without environmental check

  Tagged under: Fish | Salmon


Chris Packham calls for halt to ‘catastrophic’ expansion of Scottish salmon farms

  2023-12-11 in The Guardian

Broadcaster 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 Yahoo

EAGLE 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 Broadcasting

U.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 Guardian

Aquaculture 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 Guardian

Vegan 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 Guardian

Adult 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 Guardian

Marine 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 Times

Dependence on antibiotics in aqua- culture has surged despite widespread efforts to reduce the use of drugs by intensive farmers.Salmon farms in Scotland deploy

  Tagged under: Fish | Salmon


Tens of thousands of salmon found dead in Canada

  2022-10-08 (or before) in The BBC

Researchers 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 Guardian

Calls 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 Guardian

Up 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 Waters

Our vision at Salmon & Trout Conservation is to keep our waters wild. We campaign for sustainable water environment which support an abundance of wild fish.

  Tagged under: Fish | Salmon


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 Waters

Andrew 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 Guardian

A 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 Magazine

The 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 Waters

Why 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 Scientist

  Tagged under: Fish | Salmon


Salmon Nation

  2020-12-16 (or before) in Salmon Nation Trust

  Tagged under: Salmon


Salmon Feed Forests - Pacific Wild

  2020-11-15 by in Great Bear Rainforest Conservation | BC

Salmon feed forests? Yep. Salmon feed killer whales, sea lions, bears, eagles and wolves which decompose into fertilizer for forests.

  Tagged under: Salmon | Trees


Migratory river fish populations plunge 76% in past 50 years

  2020-07-27 in The Guardian

Decline in species such as salmon harms entire ecosystems and livelihoods, say researchers

  Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Rivers | Salmon | Wildlife


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