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Nov 9, 2022 New York – John Dillon is this year’s recipient of the Lee Wulff Award. Established in 1987, the Lee Wulff Award is the top honour given by the…

ASF COMMUNICATIONS Jan 19, 2023 A truck carrying dead salmon from a Scottish aquaculture site spilled its load near the community of Laggan in September 2019. Photo Corin Smith In…

NOAA FISHERIES SUPPORTS MAJOR WORK IN PENOBSCOT HEADWATERS AND TRIBUTARIES Dec 14, 2022 This dam on Crooked Brook in Danforth, Maine, is one of five dams that will receive fish…

ASF COMMUNICATIONS STAFF Nov 15, 2022 Wild Atlantic salmon parr. Image: Nick Hawkins This Friday is the deadline to provide feedback on DFO’s proposed Wild Atlantic Salmon Conservation Strategy. A similar…

May 3, 2022 Effluent is pumped into the ocean after a massive aquaculture die-off in Newfoundland in 2019 Dr. Steve Sutton, Director of Public Policy for the Atlantic Salmon Federation,…

ASF’S NEWSLETTER ASF biologist Heather Perry in west Greenland where more than 200-adult salmon were tagged this fall. Learn more below. IN THIS ISSUE ASF nets $7.5 million USD for…

ASF’S T.B. HAPPY FRASER AWARD RECOGNIZES LIFE-TIME COMMITMENT TO ATLANTIC SALMON CONSERVATION May 11, 2022 ASF Canada Chair John Thompson, left, and ASF President Bill Taylor, right, present Alan Graham…

BY DOUGLAS FRANTZ AND CATHERINE COLLINS Jul 27, 2022 Open net-pen salmon cages on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Photo: Tom Cheney On a Sunday afternoon in January 2020, we went…

NEVILLE CRABBE Feb 9, 2023 The Weston Dam in Skowhegan, Maine, is one of four facilities owned by Brookfield Renewable Partners that block migratory fish from passing into the upper…