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  1. I'll be at #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterway /Kinsmen park in a few hours to join the invasive green crab monitoring team. It's another trapping/netting day & I'll be documenting some of the project's work.

    [ Since 2022, we have participated in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ European Green Crab Monitoring Project. European green crabs are a destructive invasive species that removes eelgrass very efficiently, destroying habitat for everything else in the Gorge. Unfortunately, we caught adult European green crabs in the Gorge for the first time in August 2024 through our monitoring program.

    We are working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Peninsula Streams Society to remove as many as possible before the problem worsens. To prevent the spread of European Green Crabs, make sure to clean, drain, and dry off any watercraft according to BC Invasives. ]

    gorge.ca/projects/european-gre

    #YYJ #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterwayPark #LekwungenTerritory #Songhees #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #Environmental #InvasiveSpecies #EuropeanGreenCrab #marine #DFO #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #conservationists #ecological #ecosystems #Naturalists #Cascadia #VanIsle #PNW

  2. The continuing adventures of independent scientists in documenting the impact of Atlantic salmon farms on wild Pacific salmon on the west coast of Canada.
    dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2023-
    #SeaLice #SalmonFarms #ChumSalmon #PinkSalmon #FisheriesPolicy #Canada #DFO #Science #GuerrillaScience

  3. This company's mines are responsible for polluting Fording River, Elk River and its mainstem Kootenay/Kootenai River with selenium far downstream into Montana & Idaho. I imagine the US federal government, as well as the governments of #Montana & #Idaho, will be watching this transfer of ownership very carefully. Call me unreasonable, but #Canada & #BC should be all over this also. #DFO: any concerns?

    cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

    #Mining #Coal #Pollution #TransBoundary #USA #Environment

  4. Jim Shortreed, #VictoriaBC based #herring #enhancement #volunteer , is not fully convinced of the precautionary principle. He said #DFO electronic surveys indicate the returning #biomass is low; however, he claims DFO continues to say the sonars are not calibrated & therefore contain a certain amount of #error in every reading. The only way to know how much #HerringReturns to #spawn is after the spawn when #eggs are #counted
    comoxvalleyrecord.com/news/her

    #BritishColumbia #marineBiology #OceanLife