Fraser River Salmon Need Our Help | Pacific Salmon Foundation

salmon need our help

The Pacific Salmon Foundation is working with expert partners and volunteers across British Columbia and the Yukon to deploy action-based solutions that will help wild Pacific salmon adapt to changing climate conditions and ultimately recover. You can help too.

The time is now to help at-risk salmon recover.

Did you know that at 1,375 km in length, the Fraser River is not only the longest river in British Columbia, but also one of the most important sockeye salmon producers in the world?

Some populations of sockeye are at risk. In fact, right now, nearly half of Pacific salmon populations are in crisis. Some are on the brink of extinction.

Climate change is a major driving factor — it’s impacting ocean temperature, salinity and food availability in their marine environment. And it’s changing freshwater ecosystems — with droughts, fires and floods impacting salmon habitat.

The good news is, we can help. It’s not too late to help mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Join the movement. Let’s save salmon.

With local partners, we are working on habitat restoration projects for many salmon runs. This work is important because as sockeye and other at-risk salmon populations migrate they are facing more extreme climate events. High water flows, droughts and catastrophic events such as the Big Bar landslide are impacting their journey on rivers such as the Fraser, Thompson and Adams. Excessively low flows during drought months leave salmon stranded and exposed to predators. Warming temperatures can change rainfall and snowmelt patterns, causing flooding and high, dangerous waters that make these and other waterways impassable for salmon.

With your help, we can continue to work with local partners to advance habitat restoration initiatives in communities throughout the Fraser watershed and its tributaries.

salmon need our help

The time is now to help at-risk salmon recover.

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