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These local grants are distributed twice a year by PSF’s Community Salmon Program

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The Lummi Nation, Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association and Wild Whatcom are among the recipients.

Nicholas Sonntag Marine Education Centre will use its grant for a clean-up event in March

Paper Excellence Canada contributes $100,000 to advance salmon restoration across B.C.

The University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon Program has partnered with BBRSDA to research the Pacific salmon fisheries of Alaska.

If the forecasts are close to accurate, this year’s Bristol Bay sockeye run won’t be a record for long. Biology teams with University of Washington and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game both expect more than 70 million sockeye to return to Bristol Bay for the first time in recorded history.

  VICTORIA -- Southern resident killer whales have not been seen in the waters of the Salish Sea for more than 100 days, marking a highly unusual absence from their historic summer hunting ground, according to researchers. Monika Wieland Shields, director of the Orca Behaviour Institute in Washington state, says the absence is "unprecedented," and likely does not bode well for the state of the salmon ecosystem near B.C.s Fraser River. "April through September is typically the peak season f...