Wild Pink Salmon Cakes

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Monday, 27 June 2011 14:00

Sustainable Wild Pink Salmon Cakes

Victoria based restaurant Vista 18 in the Chateau Victoria recently announced a new corporate commitment to wild salmon sustainability.  The restaruant will donate $1 to the Pacific Salmon Foundation for every wild pink salmon dish sold.  Wild pink salmon are a very sustainable seafood choice for several reasons:

• In the North Pacific pinks are the most abundant and sustainable salmon species. 
• Pink salmon also return in very large numbers, so they can be sustainably harvested without damage to the overall resilience of the population. 
• Buying local pink salmon could be also be great way to support our local fishers who have struggled with salmon returns in recent years.

Here is a simple way to turn impress your family and friends with this easy to make wild pink salmon cakes recipe courtesy of Vista 18 executive chef Garrett Schack.  For a video of Schack preparing another one of his delectable wild pink salmon dishes click here.

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VANCOUVER SALMON VOLUNTEER GROUPS RECEIVE $112,000 IN GRANTS

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Wednesday, 22 June 2011 11:58

Bowen Island group to restore local salmon spawning habitat with gravel project

VANCOUVER – Fourteen volunteer groups in the Metro Vancouver area have received $112,687 to support the conservation and recovery of Pacific salmon populations and habitat in British Columbia. The grants were provided through the 2011 spring funding round of the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Community Salmon Program.

One group, Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club has received $8,260 to improve popular coho and chum spawning habitat near the outflow of Terminal and Killarney Creeks into the Howe Sound.  Over the past decade gravel has migrated downstream depleting gravel levels, and some silt has settled in the spawning bed.  Fish need gravel to build their egg nests (redds).  Gravel is an ideal material because it is porous and allows oxygen-rich water to flow over eggs.  Whereas other materials like silt cover and choke eggs, cutting off the oxygen supply.  The project will increase the number of coho and chum spawning in the area by raising the level of gravel, re-shaping the gravel bed and removing silt.

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Two Farms First to Earn “Salmon-Safe” Distinction in Canada

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Monday, 06 June 2011 09:31

The Pacific Salmon Foundation has announced that two lower mainland based organic farms have received their Salmon-Safe certification - the first farms to receive the distinction in British Columbia and Canada.  Salmon-Safe is an eco-certification label that provides landowners and farmers guidelines to help improve land management practices that impact salmon habitat.  

Klippers Organic Acres in Vancouver and The Bees Knees Christmas Trees in Chilliwack were the first two farms to become certified as Salmon-Safe.  Klippers Organic Acres is a near 40 acre operation including an organic orchard and market garden in the Similkameen Valley.  The Bees Knees Christmas Trees is a family-owned organic tree business growing on two farms in the Columbia Valley without the use of chemicals of any kind.