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Annual Report 2011
This report is intended to update our members and contributors on our recent projects in the year 2011 and our plans and forecast for the year 2012.
As a registered charity and not for profit organization, the volunteer Board of Directors is comprised of an experienced and knowledgeable group of working professionals and retirees. They bring a credible resume of past salmon enhancement projects along with a unified and politically neutral mission of enhancing and restoring salmon to their habitat. The current Board of Directors is as follows:
Notice of Annual General Meeting:
The Annual General Meeting of the Campbell River Salmon Foundation will be held Tuesday, January 17th at 3:00 P.M.
Location: 920 Alder Street, Campbell River, B.C. V9W 2P8
All members are encouraged to attend.
Please RSVP by email to: therisa.lowe@seymourpacific.ca
Derelict boat removed from sensitive estuary
Dan MacLennan
Campbell River Courier-Islander
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
A derelict boat was removed from the Willow Creek estuary Monday by the Campbell River Salmon Foundation, but Mike Gage isn't impressed with the lack of action by DFO and the Coast Guard.
"They really dropped the ball on this," the CRSF chair said. "They should be reminded that estuaries should be treated like nurseries, not like scrap yards."
High water curtails salmon enhancement work on the Campbell
"We had one fairly large project just northwest of the pumphouse," said Mike Gage, chair of the Campbell River Salmon Foundation. "Money was approved, over $100,000 from BC Hydro's Bridge Coastal Fish and Wildlife compensation fund, but the river was so high that we couldn't see what we were doing.
Poem
I hesitate to be unkind But the Salmon has a one track mind. Once every season, full of fire He swims upstream, higher and higher From dawn to dusk and dusk to dawn From morn to night and night to morn Up rocks and rills, up streams and hills Up high cascades, round grassy glades. Up canyon steep , up water deep Up stone and rocks, around dams and locks.
Passage Project for the Salmon
Dan McLennan, Courier-Islander
Published: Wednesday April 21, 2010
A fish passage project under consideration at BC Hydro's Salmon River Diversion could be the most significant enhancement project involving the Campbell River Salmon Foundation (CRSF), as well as the first test of a new direction for BC Hydro.
A partnership including CRSF, Hydro, the Sayward Fish and Game Club, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the BC Ministry of Environment (MOE) is exploring ways to help the Salmon River's famous steelhead and coho get around the diversion.
Spirit Returned
Courier-Islander
Published:Friday, April 16,2010
Through all the diversity that shrouds the wild salmon issues on this coast, one bright light can be directly attributed to the spirit and connectedness Campbell River has with the resource.
And that light shines squarely on the shoulders of the Campbell River Salmon Foundation, an organization that in just three years has raised about $300,000 - all of which goes directly to local fisheries projects.
River Gravel Put to Bed
DAN MacLENNAN, Courier-Islander
Published: Thursday, August 06, 2009
Another Campbell River spawning gravel project has been going well this week in the upper river says Mike Gage, chair of the Campbell River Salmon Foundation.
Over the last week, crews from Uplands Excavating have been hauling the double-washed rock while A. Wood Bulldozing has been loading the rock into the river near First Island. A total of 2,800 cubic yards (2,100 cubic meters) of spawning gravel has been added to make up for a loss of spawning gravel over time.
More Gravel for Chinook, Steelhead
Courier-Islander
Published: July 31, 2009
With the Campbell down at record low flows, it's a good time to top up its spawning gravel supply.
Local support saves project
Courier-Islander (Campbell River)
Published: June 12, 2009
What do young salmon eat? Is there enough food for them when they leave the rivers and streams and enter the ocean? These are two very important questions if you are trying to increase the number of salmon in our local waters, and in 2007 the Quinsam Hatchery approached the BC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences about how to do just that, and so began the Discovery Passage Plankton Monitoring and Juvenile Salmon Assessment project in partnership with DFO and Atlegay Fisheries Society.
Groups team up to install Storey Creek fish culvert
Courier-Islander (Campbell River)
Published: May 6, 2009
Salmon and trout should be able to access a huge habitat area at the Storey Creek Golf Club thanks to a culvert replacement project earlier this year involving the golf course, DFO and the Campbell River Salmon Foundation (CRSF).
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