No answers in B.C.'s salmon collapse
Experts say cuts to research grants will make it difficult to determine why more than nine million sockeye won't return to the Fraser River this year
Unfortunately I was unable to connect with this reporter while I was out in the Broughton Archipelago, but what I would have said is this:
We are looking at a bulls-eye pattern of sockeye collapse with our Fraser River salmon dead in the center and runs all around them thriving. In fact, even within the Fraser River the Harrison sockeye, which are known to migrate to sea via the fish farm-free route through Strait of Juan de Fuca, did twice as well as DFO forecast.
The only sockeye to catastrophically collapse are the Fraser sockeye that migrate to the north through the clusters of fish farms off Campbell River.
More on this very soon.
