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Jim Hart's tribute to wild Pacific salmon - A Haida masterpiece being born
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Monday, 16 July 2012 14:13
Last week, the Pacific Salmon Foundation team had the privilege of being invited to the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art to see renowned Haida master artist Jim Hart and his four assistants at work carving a magnificent, 16 foot by 11 foot red cedar screen celebrating wild Pacific salmon and the salmon people. Jim has dedicated the screen to telling salmon stories and features crest figures from his family. We were able to have a good chat with the artist himself! He gave us an inside scoop of what his creation will look like and what it represents to him, his family, and the salmon people.
Jim’s assistants working on the Salmon Screen. Photo by Bill Pusztai.
Check out our blog post on the Vancouver Is Awesome website to learn more, and be sure to drop by the Bill Reid Gallery to see the artist and the sculpture itself! Please call ahead to 604.682.3455 to ensure that Jim and his team will be at the gallery during your visit.
The Province Newspaper: OCEANS
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Thursday, 28 June 2012 09:43
BECOME A STREAMKEEPING VOLUNTEER
Pacific Salmon Foundation's Dr. Brian Riddell was quoted in The Province's special insert about ocean sustainability today. "Salmon: The bloodline of the west coast" talks of Pacific wild salmon being the foundational, keystone species of western Canada. Click the image below for the full insert.
Join us for the Campbell River Pink Salmon Festival on July 28th!
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012 08:36
Thank you for attending the 2012 Pink Salmon Barbeque!
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Monday, 25 June 2012 09:15
A huge thank you to everyone who came out to the Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel yesterday to celebrate Pacific salmon with us at the Pink Salmon Barbeque! A special thanks to the Delta Vancouver Airport team for putting on such a great event!
We also want to spend a special thank you to the young, charismatic volunteers at the event!
Pacific Salmon Foundation and Delta Vancouver Airport Staff announcing raffle winners at the 2012 Pink Salmon Barbeque
Rocky Mountaineer joins the Pacific Salmon Foundation for coho juvenille salmon release
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Friday, 22 June 2012 14:11
From left to right: Salmon Hero Elmer Rudolph (Sapperton Fish & Game Club), Rocky Mountaineer's Randy Powell, Angela Koh, Jeff Pelletier, and Andrea Dodd.
Salmon Hero and streamkeeper extraordinaire Elmer Rudolph of the Sapperton Fish and Game Club led Randy Powell (president and CEO of Rocky Mountaineer) and his team in releasing coho fry into the Brunette River at Hume Park, New Westminster on Wednesday, June 13th. Photographer Claudette Carracedo was on hand to capture the exciting action - you have view the Rocky Mountaineer team hard at work against the picturesque backdrop of Hume Park and Brunette River by visiting her blog.
Randy is no stranger to fry releases - in 2010, he was involved in retrieving salmon fry from a protected rearing pond in Abbotsford so the juvenille fish could be acclimated to being in river conditions before the fish were released further downstream.
Elmer, who has had over 35 years of streamkeeping experience, gave a passionate talk to the Rocky Mountaineer team before guiding them into releasing the coho fry into the Brunette River. The fish, provided by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, were one of the last batches to be released into the tributaries of the Fraser River this year.
Rocky Mountaineer has been a tremendous supporter of the Pacific Salmon Foundation, supporting our flagship grant-making program, Community Salmon Program, and also funding the Fraser Salmon and Watersheds Program's Salmon Heroes award, an honour bestowed upon streamkeepers who have made a lasting contribution to the preservation, enhancement and improvement of the Fraser River watershed and its Pacific salmon populations.
Elmer Rudolph was among the few recipients who received the award in 2011. Elmer was honoured for his decades of outstanding streamkeeping work along the Brunette River. He has been instrumental in the success of the Craig Street Hatchery, which enhances struggling Pacific salmon stocks. He has also led a campaign to reduce the use of chloramine in drinking water, which harms fish. Elmer has chosen to donate the $2,500 award to the Sapperton Fish & Game Club, which he now calls his streamkeeping home.
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