Scientist backs salmon farm

Linking human waste to the discharge from fish farms was "flawed" and new salmon farms planned for the Marlborough Sounds would pose a minimal environmental risk, Niwa's top aquaculture expert says.

Student Spotlight: Heidi Kritz

For Heidi Kritz, there are few things more important than the shimmering flesh of a wild Alaska salmon. It means food, tradition, family and countless other things stirring at the heart of her Yupik heritage.

Third Graders Launch Most Adorable Animal Rights Campaign Ever

              After learning about California sea lions being sentenced to death for eating salmon in Oregon and Washington, one crafty group of local kids decided they weren't going to take the news lying down. In the past two weeks, Ms. Angela Casey's third grade class at Lafayette Elementary School has put together a delightful, crayon-based political campaign that has managed to catch the ...

Setting straight who contributed what

Let’s keep it real. Native Americans gave us salmon? Not to the people of Scandinavia and east Asia who have eaten it for thousands of years. Seems that there were drums in Europe, Africa and Asia, too. Natives farmed for thousands of years before Europeans came, so we can’t take credit for that one. Mayan-Mexican Americans contribute greatly to our society but, trust me, the world had ...

Category: NEWS Created on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 12:57 Published Date

By Gwen Barlee, Times Colonist May 13, 2012 The fate of the wild Kokish River on Vancouver Island was sealed two weeks ago.