Posted on 21/02/06
Declining salmon stocks raise alarm
VANCOUVER -- Sockeye salmon stocks on British Columbia's northern and central coast are in widespread decline, according to a new report by the Sierra Club of Canada.The report adds to the woes facing fisheries managers on the West Coast who just last week received preliminary data indicating last year's sockeye salmon spawning run on the Fraser River was far below target. Millions fewer fish returned from the ocean than expected, and of those that made it into the lower river, some 300,000 vanished on the way upstream to the spawning grounds.
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