Canada is losing track of its wild salmon — just when we need that knowledge most

By Michael Price, Adjunct professor, Department of Biology, Simon Fraser University
Jonathan Moore, Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Simon Fraser University

Every year, Pacific salmon return from the ocean to the rivers and streams where they were born. These migrations nourish ecosystems, sustain Indigenous cultures and support fisheries that people across Western Canada rely on. Yet something essential has quietly eroded: Canada’s efforts to count wild salmon.

That loss of basic information matters. It becomes especially important at a time when major industrial decisions affecting salmon watersheds are being made more quickly, and with less ecological information than…

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