Fraser River sockeye face triple whammy of threats: new SFU study

Increased numbers of competitive pink salmon, salmon farms on migration routes, and warming ocean temperatures together could be contributing to the long-term decline of Fraser River sockeye, scientists report.

Nashua students release salmon fry into Piscataquog River

MANCHESTER – About 100 fourth-graders from Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua released salmon fry into the Piscataquog River in Manchester on Friday afternoon. It was the culmination of a science project in which the students raised the fish as part of the long-running Adopt-a-Salmon program. The class released the fish into the Piscataquog instead of into the Souhegan River because wild ...

Nashua students release young salmon fry into Piscataquog River

MANCHESTER – About 100 fourth-graders from Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua released young salmon fry, as they’re known, into the Piscataquog River in Manchester on Friday afternoon. It was the culmination of a science project in which the students raised the fish as part of the long-running Adopt-a-Salmon program. The class was releasing the fish into the Piscataquog instead into the ...

Three keys to sockeye decline

(Phys.org) -- Competition with pink salmon in the open ocean could be an important factor in the long-term decline in abundance of sockeye salmon populations in the Fraser River, according to new research from Simon Fraser University scientists and international colleagues.

Salmon love snow; warm temperatures stress them out

Many of us were bracing for a dramatic and messy break-up this year. Ice jams, flooding, clogged culverts, and rutted side roads seemed inevitable after all the snow that fell this winter. Instead, it has been a very gradual melt with little rainfall to speed up the process.