Tag: Somass River
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Estuary Restoration at the Somass River Mouth
Over the last 10 years, millions of dollars have spent up and down the east coast of Vancouver Island on salmon enhancement, and on habitat restoration. And the spending continues. The starting 20 years ago, Campbell River estuary has been extensively restored. When I lived there, it was an industrial site with three mills on […]
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Chinook Smolts in the Somass Estuary
A couple of weeks ago I was watching Global News at Six. A story about the future of the Squamish Spit came on. As I watched, I realised that they had exactly the same issue that we have here in our estuary with respect to Chinook salmon smolts. In their case, a long narrow berm […]
Living in the Alberni Valley 