Jonathan Moore

A Safe Operating Space for Salmon Watersheds Under Rapid Climate Change Local watershed management can exacerbate or ameliorate oncoming climate risks to important aquatic ecosystems. Even as there is a global need to address climate change, local watershed stewardship c....

NEW PAPER!

A Safe Operating Space for Salmon Watersheds Under Rapid Climate Change - Fish and Fisheries - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

01.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

Pacific salmon suffer from a myriad of cuts, laws, and jurisdictions. Pacific salmon are facing unprecedented pressures from a multitude of stressors – all regulated under separate laws that rarely account for their combined impact. Image shows the salmon life cycle impacted by numerous human activities including mines, urban development, forest harvest, crop production, ports, aquaculture, predator control, fishing, hatchery operations, and CO2 emissions. Each activity is connected to various laws and policies across multiple jurisdictions (e.g., municipal, federal, provincial, and international). A pathway forward for managing multiple stressors: Collaborative, on-the-ground monitoring can support flexible and cautious management, enabling regional CEAs can help align decision-making with true scale of environmental and social risks, and local limits can be set by establishing legal objectives through spatial planning.

New paper! #fishsci #bcpoli

Our study reveals that Pacific salmon in British Columbia face a fragmented policy landscape that fails to manage the combined impacts of industrial development and climate change.

Read the paper here:
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/epdf/10....

Thread with key take-aways 👇

03.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 3

Death by a thousand cuts: salmon falling through the cracks in B.C.’s fragmented policy landscape

New research from @sfubiosciences.bsky.social researchers @ulaskimarta.bsky.social and @jon-moore.bsky.social finds that environmental regulations in BC are failing to protect salmon and watersheds from industrial development and climate change. ow.ly/5TGg50WQMtn

03.09.2025 22:19 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

"As a scientist who studies the health of western Canada’s oceans, rivers, and salmon, my alarm bells are going off."

This op-ed is worth your time. Welcome to Bluesky, @jon-moore.bsky.social!

17.06.2025 17:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Opinion: It's time to fast-track actions to defend B.C.'s lands, waters, fish and wildlife B.C. recently passed Bills 14 and 15. As a scientist who studies the health of western Canada’s ecosystems, my alarm bells are going off

Published an op-ed the other day--fast-tracking actions to protect lands, waters, fish, and wildlife.

BC and Canadian policies are rushing natural resource extraction forward--there is a parallel need to fast-track safeguards of lands and waters.
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

17.06.2025 16:44 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1