The conservation status of
sockeye populations in Canada is under review by Fisheries and Oceans Canada as part of its Wild Salmon Policy strategy to standardize monitoring of wild salmon status.
Researchers from the Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation Laboratory at UBC followed the migration of one of B.C.'s largest
sockeye populations from Chilko Lake, in British Columbia's Cariboo region, to the ocean.
Not exact matches
«We have started cryopreservation of [the spermatogonia of the] endangered
sockeye salmon
population in Idaho with NOAA -LSB-(National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)-RSB-,» Yoshizaki says.
Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle's (U.W.) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences think they know why Bristol Bay is so productive year after year: Several hundred discrete
populations of
sockeye salmon inhabit the network of rivers and lakes that empty into the bay, and this tremendous
population diversity buffers the entire fishery against the vicissitudes of the environment.
Another benefit of Kamchatka's isolation is protection for
populations of chum,
sockeye, chinook, coho and pink salmon, which return by the millions to spawn in Kamchatka's rivers.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game carefully manages the Bristol Bay
sockeye salmon fishery to ensure that enough fish are allowed to escape the fishery and run up river to sustain the
population.
Take, for example, the massive declines in returning chinook salmon
populations this year (and
sockeye last year).
In the US, the
populations of
sockeye salmon in Snake River (Idaho, Oregon and Washington area) and in Lake Ozette, Washington, are listed under the Endangered Species Act as endangered and threatened (respectively).