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Salmon come to life in Yukon classrooms

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Rivers to Ridges, a Yukon-based social enterprise, is working to reconnect local youth with salmon and their watersheds through outdoor education. With support from PSF, their educators are collaborating with Indigenous knowledge holders to co-develop three new salmon-focused educational resources.

The latest on open-net pen salmon farms in B.C.

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With three critical years left until the ban on open-net pen salmon aquaculture takes effect, PSF is building on more than a decade of peer-reviewed science. By continuing research on risks of pathogen transmission from farmed to wild salmon, PSF is helping shape an evidence-based path forward.

A decade of tracking salmon biodiversity

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Over the past 15 years, PSF has consolidated fragmented data into a publicly accessible tool, the Pacific Salmon Explorer. Beginning with the Skeena watershed in 2016 and expanding most recently to the Yukon in 2025, the Explorer now spans all major Pacific salmon-bearing regions in Canada.

Meet Farlyn Campbell, Salmon Stamp Artist

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An experienced skipper, salmon fisher, and researcher based in the Discovery Islands, Farlyn Campbell is the artist behind the 2026-27 Salmon Conservation Stamp.

New boat gives everyone, everywhere the chance to fish

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A new, fully accessible boat, aptly named Everyone Everywhere, is removing barriers to the outdoors for people with disabilities in British Columbia.

Bringing Chinook Back to Maria Slough

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With support from PSF’s Community Salmon Program in 2025, Seabird Island Band and DFO crews redistributed spawning gravel throughout the channel and added boulders and logs to cool the water, boost oxygen, and keep flows moving through summer heat.

After the fish farms

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The Discovery Islands, an archipelago east of Campbell River, form a key migratory channel for Fraser River salmon. Both adult salmon coming back to spawn and young salmon headed out to the open ocean travel through these waters. Local salmon populations also rear, feed, and grow nearby.
Graham Dorsay

$1.3 million restoration project to revive Vancouver Island Chinook

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A threatened population of Chinook salmon will get a major boost from significant restoration work in the Nootka Sound region of Vancouver Island. The new project is improving spawning habitat at the outflow area of Muchalat Lake, a remote area about 90 kilometres west of Campbell River.
Redd Fish Restoration Society/Tom Balfour

Mapping the Impact of the Community Salmon Program

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In the 35 years since its inception, the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Community Salmon Program (CSP) has distributed $31 million in grants to more than 3,500 projects across B.C. and the Yukon. The funding program provides grants to streamkeepers, First Nations, schools, and conservation organizations by stewarding Salmon Conservation Stamp funds on behalf of DFO.
A group of researchers samples the Chase River for contaminants near a bridge. Photo: Vancouver Island University

Tire contaminant research hits the road

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When rain hits the east coast of Vancouver Island, Haley Tomlin and Erik Krogh might have to pull an all-nighter — all for salmon. “We do it in the name of science,” says Krogh, a chemistry professor and director of the Applied Environmental Research Laboratories at Vancouver Island University.

Finding the ‘cold’ in the Coldwater River

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What connects British Columbia’s lush west coast to the arid, dry Nicola Valley in the Southern Interior? Look no further than the Pacific salmon migration. As salmon travel from the coast into the Nicola Valley, they bring an important pulse of nutrients inland. The Coldwater River, the largest tributary of the Nicola River, is critical for both juvenile and adult salmon.

where cottonwoods grow, salmon follow

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The Deadman River, located in the traditional lands of the Skeetchestn Indian Band, near Kamloops Lake, is an area where cottonwoods have vanished due to industrial development and climate change. The Deadman is a key tributary to the Thompson River, providing valuable habitat for pink, coho, steelhead, and Chinook salmon.

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