Following a disastrous 2009 salmon season where the Fraser River sockeye salmon run returned 10% of forecast fish the federal government of Canada has called a judicial inquiry to investigate the collapse.
The Fraser River run has been in decline for decades but the summer of 2009 saw the worst run in 50 years. A variety of factors, from climate change to disease and parasites from fish farms are being fingered as possible culprits.
These photos are from the last...
more »Following a disastrous 2009 salmon season where the Fraser River sockeye salmon run returned 10% of forecast fish the federal government of Canada has called a judicial inquiry to investigate the collapse.
The Fraser River run has been in decline for decades but the summer of 2009 saw the worst run in 50 years. A variety of factors, from climate change to disease and parasites from fish farms are being fingered as possible culprits.
These photos are from the last day of the 2009 Fraser River chum fishery.
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