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Rivernotes September 12th, 2024
Editor’s Note It’s the final stretch of salmon angling season in many regions. With a few weeks to go, anglers are welcoming cooler nights and hoping for rain. This week’s…
Lire la suiteRivernotes September 5th, 2024
Editor’s Note Fall is in the air this week. The nights are getting cooler, and here on the Nashwaak River, some leaves are already starting to turn colour. Throughout salmon…
Lire la suiteMassive 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,…
Lire la suiteThe 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…
Lire la suiteWild 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…
Lire la suiteInside 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…
Lire la suiteLe téléjournal Est-du-Québec: Épisode du samedi 25 janvier 2025
More coves with more aquaculture debris? The Atlantic Salmon Federation thinks so
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…
Lire la suiteSatellite 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…
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