Pacific Salmon Foundation Activates Drought Pilot Project
A collaborative rapid response group at the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF), with funding from the Province of British Columbia, has approved $76,000 (in Canadian dollars) to activate four projects to help combat adverse impacts of climate change on salmon.
The effort to save salmon from drought conditions was announced by the PSF in early September.
Project goals include digging dry gravel bars in the Coldwater River at sites supporting high densities of salmon, to creation of cool groundwater refuge areas for fish, to narrowing channel width and increasing water depth at Joseph Creek to ensure that salmon fry at Dunn Creek Hatchery have enough water to migrate through.
The Coldwater River project is led by Scw’exmx Tribal Council and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Ca...