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Gitanyow celebrate the return of salmon in northwest BC
The enticing smell of cooking salmon filled a clearing in the woods with the sounds…
Salmon SWAT teams deployed in BC to help fish during drought
A provincewide drought this summer dried up B.C. rivers and jeopardized the survival of already…
Kokanee salmon population explodes in Okanagan Lake with biggest spawn in quarter century
OKANAGAN - It’s a record year for Kokanee salmon spawning on Okanagan Lake. Jason Webster, a Vernon-based fisheries biologist, says more than 300,000 shore spawners were counted during this year’s annual survey — the most in more than 25 years. “It’s turning into a cyclical thing where every four years there’s a great big run,...