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(108/366) Fishy Business
April 17, 2012 – A quick trip up to Campbell River and back today. I was visiting one of our hatcheries with one of my co-workers and a fellow from Science Branch who we picked up along the way. They wanted to go up to talk about some issues with marking fish, I was supposed to meet come people at…
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The Ocean’s Shifting Baseline
Daniel Pauly is a Professor in the Fisheries Centre & Zoology at the University of British Columbia, and is the Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us Project (see www.seaaroundus.org), funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, and devoted to studying, documenting and promoting policies to mitigate the impact of fisheries on the world’s marine ecosystems. He was the Director of the…
Read more »Anatomy of Deception
An article written for Aquaculture North America (Jan/Feb 2012) by a well respected member of the aquatic sciences community, and worthy of passing on, mainly because the amount of misinformation in the media is overwhelming. Anatomy of Deception by Brad Hicks When anti-salmon farming activists announced the discovery of Infectious Salmon Anaemia Virus in British Columbia last fall it was…
Read more »North Island Gazette – Salmon face worse threat than ISA
A wonderful article I stumbled on a few days ago. Regardless of who wrote it, it highlights the ridiculous buy-in that some extremists manage to get from normally, and otherwise, intelligent people. And there was a wonderful surprise in the comments that followed the article – an intelligent response from a former student. _____________________________________ North Island Gazette – Salmon face…
Read more »37-52-2011: Pitt River Sockeye
One of the male sockeye we captured and used for spawning. His genes will be passed on to the next generation via the caring hands of hatchery staff at Inch Creek.
Read more »Day 228 – Chehalis River Red Chinook
228/365 (August 16, 2011) – I’ve now been in my new job for 8 weeks. My fish health course is out of the way and I now have to create a new educational program for the community groups. But today was a field day. Another fellow and I jumped in the truck and headed out to the Valley for the…
Read more »Day 102 – Of Feathers and Fish Gills
102/365 – Sometimes I marvel at the links between birds and fish. They live in such different environments, but they share some cool similarities.
Read more »Day 287 – Adam’s River Sockeye Run – 2010
287/365 (October 14, 2010) – On the way back home to Vancouver we took a detour up to Adam’s River to see the sockeye salmon. This year is a dominant cycle year. Every four years the largest run returns to the Fraser River, and the Adam’s River run is one of the largest. In recent years the runs have been…
Read more »Day 30 – Arapaima
It was a cruddy Saturday and so what better thing to do than visit the Vancouver Aquarium and spend some time in the Amazon. Beats hanging out in the drizzle. In 2004, just weeks after defencing my PhD thesis I had the good fortune to travel to Brazil for a conference and a subsequent boat trip up the Amazon above…
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