Eric Hertz

BC friends, important piece by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social

She writes: BC’s own source revenue—taxes, fees & royalties—has plummeted from 19.2% to 15.4% of GDP over 25 years. This drop represents $16.8 billion in foregone revenues annually."

Tax cuts drive the deficit; progressive tax ⬆️ needed 👇

#Wildfires are threatening B.C.’s #drinking #water

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Drivers and Dynamics of Salmon Bycatch in the Eastern Bering Sea Pollock Fishery Minimising bycatch is a pervasive challenge for sustainable fisheries management, the importance of which is amplified for non-target species or populations that are in decline. In the eastern Bering....

New paper! I am excited to see the results published from this fun collaboration characterizing patterns of salmon bycatch in the Eastern Bering Sea pollock fishery!

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Concerns raised over alleged cuts to North Coast salmon monitoring | Globalnews.ca B.C. conservation groups are sounding the alarm over a cut to a government program they claim poses a serious threat to fish stocks.

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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:
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Thread with key take-aways 👇

Using fisheries risk assessment to inform precautionary and collaborative management in a declining coho salmon fishery The conservation and management of Pacific salmon in Canada faces an uncertain future. While fisheries policies, like Canada's Wild Salmon Policy, increasingly emphasize conservation, salmon continue ...

New paper out in @cjfas.bsky.social on coho salmon on the North and Central Coast of B.C. (open access).

Using fisheries risk assessment to inform precautionary and collaborative management in a declining coho salmon fishery cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

#fish #salmon #fisheries #oceans

The Surprising Benefits of Urban Rewilding If we want greener, wilder and more resilient cities, we can’t stop at plants. It’s time to bring the animals back too.

Urban #rewilding has brought back #beavers, hornbills and platypuses to #city #parks – and that’s just the start
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The next wave of monitoring cuts crests. Brutal. How do you steward salmon without counting them? You don't.

I am close to this issue & I know nuance abounds but I don't see how hundreds of millions of dollars towards restoration work can be effective without counting the fish we seek to support.

Shrinking Cod: How Humans Are Impacting the Evolution of Species Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term. But a recent study of cod in the Baltic Sea reveals how overfishing and selective harvest of the lar...

Shrinking #Cod: How #Humans Are Impacting the #Evolution of #Species

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Long story short, it is worth counting salmon. It's a cornerstone to understanding & stewarding these fish we care so much about. It's also a nice way to spend time. Walking up a creek, counting fish, seeing them putter their way home. I hope there will be more of it in decades to come.

In a sentence: the decline in commercial salmon fisheries through the 1980s and 1990s was accompanied by the demise of counting salmon as they return to spawn in their natal rivers and lakes. Today, there are recorded counts for just 1/3 of historically tracked local populations.

Image credit: April Bencze

The last 10 yrs were the worst decade on record for salmon spawner monitoring in Pacific Canada. Any scientist who works with local-scale salmon abundance data knows this. Many papers written about the 'ghost streams' no longer monitored by the streamwalkers of decades past. We wrote another.

Today’s supercharged wildfires require far more government planning and preparation Five key actions together can reduce risk, starting with redirecting new housing, making it fire-resilient and managing forests better.

Today’s supercharged #wildfires require far more #government #planning and #preparation

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Monitoring for fisheries or for fish? Declines in monitoring of salmon spawners continue despite a conservation crisis Monitoring of salmon in Pacific Canada has been declining for decades. Counts of spawning salmon enable researchers to quantify stressor impacts, identify where management interventions are required, ...

#Monitoring for #fisheries or for #fish? Declines in monitoring of #salmon spawners continue despite a #conservation crisis

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Hyperstability in an inland recreational fishery: Are catch-per-unit-effort data masking the magnitude of steelhead declines? AbstractObjective. Recreational fisheries are complex social–ecological systems, with interactions and feedbacks across local and regional scales and among

Our new paper finds that using catch data to infer abundance for steelhead overestimates abundance and underestimates extinction risk academic.oup.com/tafs/advance...

Putting sustainable B.C. salmon fisheries first | Pacific Salmon Foundation A parasitic disease that can be lethal for juvenile salmon has been recently detected in British Columbia. Whirling disease –– named after the erratic spinning behaviour of infected fish –– was first ...

New magazine article from PSF on Ocean Wise’s new sustainability assessments for BC salmon fisheries: psf.ca/blog/putting...

What’s up, Prince George?

Linking Fire, Food Webs, and Fish in Stream Ecosystems - Ecosystems As wildfire regimes shift, resource managers are concerned about potential threats to aquatic ecosystems and the species they support, especially fishes. However, predicting fish responses can be chal...

Hot off the press: Linking #Fire, #Food Webs, and #Fish in #Stream #Ecosystems

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New Paper! I had the pleasure of helping Skip McKinnell assemble a database of >50k salmon catch records from ocean surveys beginning in the 50s... and the data are public! Read about the International Pacific Salmon Data Legacy here: npafc.org/bulletin-7-6/

Zero-sum fishery Are wild salmon the ultimate loser? A news analysis Alaska salmon farmers who annually turn almost 2 billion hatchery fish loose to feed on the pastures of the North Pacific Ocean finally ap…

Nice article that touches on our “Strategies to mitigate high seas competition” session at PSF’s recent Recovery and Resilience Conference: craigmedred.news/2024/12/10/z...

Yes, bottom trawling degrades the ecosystem. But clearing land from all natural vegetation and killing all native fauna to grow crops and raise livestock isn't exactly low-impact food production, and that is perfectly legal too.

Cover of the new "global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras" report

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives.

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