MCC feedback on the 2025/26 salmon IFMP
In April 2025, the MCC salmon committee submitted its feed back to DFO on recovery and management issues for the…
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Rethinking fisheries
In 2024 we pushed for change in commercial and recreational fisheries management, domestically and abroad. At home, we have been…
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Hanging by a thread
In 2014, we had an opinion piece published in the Victoria Times Colonist stating that “Southern Resident killer whales are…
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Hatcheries: good intentions, bad outcomes
Walk into a large salmon hatchery and you will find a place not unlike an industrial assembly line. On one…
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A better, older way to fish for salmon
“How are the salmon doing?” It’s a question that salmon biologists get all the time, from friends at a café…
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Seeing wild salmon thrive: Our wild dream
At Raincoast, we’re science-based in every sense of the word. We conduct research and publish peer-reviewed papers and reports that…
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Job Opportunity: Fisheries Lead
CCIRA is looking for a Fisheries Lead (pdf) to support the implementation of integrated policy, strategy, coordination and programming to…
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Positive Solutions to the Salmon Crisis
A keystone species of coastal ecosystems, salmon are a critical food source and vital part of the culture, social structures…
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Fisheries Management for the Future
In 2019, Central Coast First Nations signed an historic agreement with other coastal First Nations and Canada’s Federal Government to…
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Increasing salmon hatcheries could do more harm than good for Chinook and Southern Resident killer whales
In both British Columbia and Washington state, fishery managers, provincial and state legislators, the sports fishing lobby, and even the…
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Crab pilot project a positive step towards collaborative fisheries management
In the 1990’s people from our Nations could go crab fishing on the Central Coast and with just four traps…
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Petition for an emergency order for Southern Resident killer whales
To the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister Responsible for Parks…
