DFO's Aquaculture Director says don't focus on Fraser sockeye salmon number but on the uncertainty
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Vancouver Sun] Opinion by Donald Noakes - August 1, 2014
Donald Noakes is former director of the Pacific Biological Station and head of aquaculture for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, current chair of the mathematics and statistics department and incoming dean, faculty of science and technology at Vancouver Island University.
The return of the salmon to river mouths along B.C.'s coast is a summer tradition in British Columbia that dates back centuries. Every year we witness the return of Fraser River sockeye, whose parents fought their way back upstream four years previously, the highlight in October being the world renowned Adams River run.
Each spring, well before migrating salmon reach the top end of Vancouver Island on their way back to their natal streams...
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