The health of wild Pacific salmon depends on us.

The Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Salmon Health Program is setting out to solve the mystery of which environmental stressors are leading to declines in salmon survival. With your help, we can give Pacific salmon the best chance to recover.

Join the movement. Help give Pacific salmon the best chance to recover.

The combined impacts of climate change, 150 years of industrial development, habitat degradation, and introduction of disease-causing pathogens through aquaculture have placed Pacific salmon in peril.

Building on previous research, the Pacific Salmon Foundation is launching a Salmon Health program that will undertake critical research to guide action and evidence-based policy to improve salmon health.

With more than half of B.C.’s salmon populations in decline, the Salmon Health program will help us understand the cumulative stressors that are impacting wild salmon.

Join the movement.  Let’s save salmon.

The Salmon Health Program will focus on:

Independent Research + Monitoring of Aquaculture: related to sea-lice and pathogen transfer to advance the federal government’s 2025 commitment- deadline to transition away from open net aquaculture and validate eDNA water monitoring for future environmental impact research.

Broughton Partnership: we’re working with the Mamalilikulla, ’Namgis, and Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nations to implement the Indigenous Monitoring and Inspection Program. The scope is to monitor the fish health of salmon in the farms and the distribution of pathogens in the waters surrounding the farms while actively measuring the presence of and the potential exposure of wild salmon to infectious pathogens.

Cumulative Environmental Stressors: Our team will deploy cutting-edge Fit-Chip technology to understand the combined impact of changing environmental conditions on the health of wild Pacific salmon in relation to long-term survival.

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