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Flawed EIS for Kennebec Dams Ignores Calls for a Collaborative Recovery Solution
A final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) issued for four dams on Maine’s lower Kennebec River ignores the best available science and could doom endangered Atlantic salmon to extinction while harming…
Read MoreWild Salmon Watersheds: Community Engagement Through Smolt Wheels
In 2024, the Wild Salmon Watersheds program reached a huge milestone with the deployment of smolt wheels on Newfoundland’s Terra Nova River and the Nepisiguit River in New Brunswick. This…
Read MoreDebrief: Wild Salmon Connections
Salmon conservationists talk strategy, partnership at London, U.K. conference People from around the world met for three days last week at historic Fishmonger’s Hall on the banks of the Thames…
Read MoreThe Countdown
On a very cold, fall morning back in 2002, the fire alarm sounded in hydro-Québec offices in downtown Montreal. My division, which consisted of around 150 environmental specialists, used the…
Read MoreMassive Pollution: More salmon farm dumps located in N.L.
Images reveal multiple sites with abandoned, sunken sea cages in Newfoundland and Labrador https://www.asf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/investigating_aquaculture_garbage_in_south_newfoundland-720p.mp4 After the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador ordered Cooke Aquaculture to clean up a single site,…
Read MoreSatellite images detail ocean plastic dumping by NL salmon farmers
Broken sea-cages, net, rope, and other garbage dumped in cove since at least 2011 Satellite images taken over a 13-year period starting in 2011 reveal large-scale disposal of plastic at…
Read MoreLe téléjournal Est-du-Québec: Épisode du samedi 25 janvier 2025
2024: It Wasn’t All Bad
Warm weather protocols, too little rain. Norway closes rivers to salmon angling. Matane and other Quebec river counts way down. There was plenty of bad news, but don’t despair; here…
Read MoreInside the Locker
What it tells us about open net-pen aquaculture’s lack of respect for the marine environment. Melvin and Laverne Jackman have a cottage in Hardy’s Cove on Hermitage Bay. The couple’s…
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