'Rivers' Photo Exhibition to Benefit PSF

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Friday, 03 December 2010 14:48

Vancouver Photographer Adrian O’Brien set to unveil “Rivers” Photographic Exhibition, on December 9th, 2010 in Vancouver British Columbia.  “Rivers” has been a five-year project for O’Brien, which explores salmon bearing streams throughout British Columbia.

The widely varied collection of photographs range from traditional landscapes to abstract images that all relate to a solitary subject, “Rivers”.   The series depicts the struggles faced by British Columbia’s once prolific salmon bearing streams, many of which have now either been reduced to a mere trickle, or are barely able to sustain a mere sampling of the salmon runs they once supported. The final collection consists of 25 photographs, and features a number of prolific Rivers including the Fraser River, Thompson River, Harrison River and Chilliwack River to name just a few.

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2011/12 Salmon Conservation Stamp Art Competition Winner

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Friday, 19 November 2010 11:49

ONTARIO ARTIST WINS SALMON CONSERVATION ART CONTEST

(November 19, 2010) – An Ontario artist has won the honour of having his painting of a Chinook salmon appear on the federal fishing license decal required to keep Pacific salmon caught in saltwater off Canada's west coast. Known as the salmon conservation stamp, anglers must buy the $6.30 postage stamp sized decal annually, and each year a new image for the decal is selected through a contest run by the Vancouver-based Pacific Salmon Foundation.

Click here to see the winning painting and read the full story.

RBC Blue Water Speech in Prince George

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Friday, 19 November 2010 11:15

New PSF Video 

Pacific Salmon Foundation President and CEO Dr. Brian Riddell recently discussed the state of wild Pacific salmon at a luncheon sponsored by RBC Royal Bank in Prince George. Riddell was invited to Prince George to discuss the RBC Blue Water Project - an innovative, wide-ranging, 10-year global commitment to help protect the world's most precious natural resource: fresh water. It includes a $50 million philanthropic commitment to supporting organizations that protect watersheds and ensure access to clean drinking water. Since 2007, RBC has pledged over $24 million to more than 285 not-for-profit organizations worldwide that protect watersheds or ensure access to clean drinking water. The Pacific Salmon Foundation is one of 53 organizations in British Columbia that has received grants through the program.

Riddell also visited with the editorial board of the Prince George Free Press, which published an article on the visit. Read the article.

Learn more about the RBC Blue Water Project at bluewater.rbc.com

Vancouver Sun Online Op-Ed: A 'sea change' for wild Pacific salmon

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Monday, 25 October 2010 16:18

Appeared in the October 13 online edition of the Vancouver Sun

By: Dr. Brian Riddell

In the last month we saw the "good news" story about the historic return of wild Pacific sockeye salmon to the Fraser River. October will bring more good news when millions of these sockeye return to the Adams River to spawn and create the next generation. Thousands of visitors will make a pilgrimage to Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park to witness this natural phenomenon as the river becomes choked with crimson red sockeye.

This historic sockeye run is providing a wonderful "teachable moment" that should restore hope in the face of what has been a growing sense of disillusion about the future for wild salmon in British Columbia. It could also usher in a much-needed "sea change" in our appreciation of wild salmon and our willingness to invest in a better understanding of this resource. Dr. David Suzuki rightly summarized the 2010 sockeye return as "a gift we can't afford to take for granted."

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