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2006 News Archive

December 2006

December 30/2006: 345 Anglers on 63rd Annual Boxing Day Derby
December 20/2006: STS Guiding Service on Fishing Canada
December 19/2006: Upcoming Species at Risk Conservation Workshops
December 18/2006: Reaction Fly and Tackle's Holiday Hours
December 18/2006: One More Dead Fish
December 16/2006: Boxing Day Steelhead Derby Slates to be Biggest
December 16/2006: New Video Links
December 14/2006: Salmon Farm Closures Benefit Sea Trout (FishUpdate.com)
December 14/2006: New Fishery Act is Online
December 14/2006: No Retention of Chilliwack River Chinook Salmon
December 12/2006: Pallant Creek Hatchery Job Opening
December 11/2006: Clayburn Creek Needs Help
December 11/2006: Nominate Your Endangered Rivers
December 11/2006: Reaction Fly and Tackle Ladies Night
December 07/2006: Fisheries and Oceans Canada on the Naughty List
December 07/2006: Preliminary Summer Sockeye Spawning Escapement
December 07/2006: 46th Annual Vancouver International Boat Show

November 2006

November 30/2006: Fishery Related Job Openings
November 26/2006: Public Information Sessions on Upper Pitt River Power Projects
November 24/2006: Abbotsford Trout Hatchery Open House
November 24/2006: Return Your Sockeye Salmon Tag and Win
November 22/2006: Reaction Fly & Tackle Fly Tying Contest
November 20/2006: Fraser Basin Initiative Receives 20M (DFO)
November 16/2006: Cowichan River Chum and Coho Daily Quotas (DFO)
November 16/2006: Region 3 Small Lake Management Public Meetings
November 14/2006: Employment Opportunities for the 2007 Season
November 13/2006: 63rd Annual Boxing Day Steelhead Derby
November 13/2006: Volunteers for North Shore Spawner Surveys
November 13/2006: British Columbia Lake Stewardship Society's Questionnaire
November 13/2006: Aboriginal Fisheries Policies Seminar
November 09/2006: Puntledge River Chum Salmon Daily Quota Change (DFO)
November 08/2006: Minister Hearn, Stop the Trawl!
November 08/2006: Fish Crash No Surprise (The Tyee)
November 08/2006: Cowichan Bay Chinook Salmon Closure (DFO)
November 08/2006: Cowichan Bay Finfish Closure (DFO)
November 07/2006: Habitat Decline Slammed (24 Hours)
November 07/2006: Preliminary Early Summer Sockeye Spawning Escapement
November 07/2006: Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival 2006
November 06/2006: BCFDF 10th Anniversary Banquet
November 06/2006: 5th National Fly Fishing Championships & Conservation SYmposium
November 02/2006: Nanaimo River Boundary Change for Chum Salmon (DFO)
November 01/2006: Cowichan Bay Chinook Salmon Non Retention (DFO)
November 01/2006: Campbell and Quinsam Rivers Coho Regulation Change (DFO)

October 2006

October 30/2006: Tidal Sooke River Coho and Chinook Salmon Closure (DFO)
October 26/2006: ECVI Stream Fishing Closures (DFO)
October 24/2006: Puntledge River Coho Closure (DFO)
October 24/2006: Help Restoring the Discovery Trail in Squamish
October 20/2006: Cowichan River Salmon Closure (DFO)
October 17/2006: Season Update by STS Guiding Service
October 17/2006: Preliminary Early Stuart Sockeye Escapement Estimates
October 16/2006: Thompson and Fraser River Steelhead Openings
October 16/2006: Campbell River Coho Salmon Daily Quota Change (DFO)
October 13/2006: World Water Monitoring Day
October 13/2006: Stokes Pit Streambank Rehabilitation
October 12/2006: A Fish Farm Critic Vindicated (The Tyee)
October 04/2006: Cultus Lake Sockeye Salmon Open House & Forum

September 2006

September 25/2006: October and November Spey Days
September 25/2006: 2006 Help Habitat Fundraiser
September 22/2006: Non-tidal Fraser River Coho Salmon Retention (DFO)
September 22/2006: Tidal Fraser River Coho Salmon Retention (DFO)
September 22/2006: Big Qualicum Salmon Fishing Opportunities (DFO)
September 22/2006: Stamp River Fishing Area Changes (DFO)
September 20/2006: Rivers Day at Squamish
September 20/2006: Cleaning up the Little Campbell Estuary
September 18/2006: BC Rivers Day at Streamkeepers Nursery
September 18/2006: Langley's BC Rivers Day Celebration
September 18/2006: Definition of Adult Chinook Changed in Area 29 and Region 2 (DFO)
September 15/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
September 14/2006: Effort to Save Stream (Surrey Leader)
September 14/2006: Late Sockeye Dying in Rivers (Kamloops Daily News)
September 13/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
September 12/2006: Seymour River Steelhead Regulation Change
September 12/2006: Fall Fishing Fair
September 10/2006: American Fisheries Society Publishes "Salmon 2010" Book
September 08/2006: Southern BC Sockeye Salmon Closure (DFO)
September 08/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
September 08/2006: Coho moved to Comox Lake (Comox Valley Record)
September 08/2006: Stewards Help with Fish Rearing Channel (Comox Valley Record)
September 07/2006: Upcoming Fraser Valley River Cleanups
September 05/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
September 01/2006: Tidal Fraser River Notice Correction (DFO)
September 01/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Update (DFO)
September 01/2006: Harrison River Sockeye Salmon Closure (DFO)
September 01/2006: Quesnel River/Lake Sockeye Salmon Closure (DFO)
September 01/2006: Non-tidal Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Closure (DFO)
September 01/2006: Area 29 and Tidal Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Closures (DFO)

August 2006

August 31/2006: 3rd Annual Salmon Celebration
August 30/2006: Tofino's Water Advisories
August 30/2006: Sockeye Catch Could Mean Cash (The Progress)
August 30/2006: Employment Opportunity in Chilliwack
August 29/2006: BC Rivers Day 2006
August 28/2006: Thompson River Sockeye Salmon Opening (DFO)
August 27/2006: Pacific Salmon Foundation job Opening
August 27/2006: Project Rivershed Coordinator job opening
August 27/2006: Smile, Mr. Chinook, you’re on Candid Camera (Comox Valley Record)
August 25/2006: B.C. business group dangles Fisheries reform paper (Globe and Mail)
August 23/2006: Salmon cam opens window into pink migration (Campbell River Mirror)
August 22/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
August 21/2006: Alouette River Cleanup
August 21/2006: Changes to Alberni Harbour Fin Fish Closed Area (DFO)
August 21/2006: Squamish Sturgeon a Legend No Longer (Whistler Question)
August 19/2006: Feds Pony up for French Creek (Parksville Qualicum News)
August 19/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
August 18/2006: Rivers Day Celebration at Puntledge Hatchery
August 18/2006: Invasive Bass Threaten Cariboo Watershed (BC Ministry of Environment)
August 18/2006: First Nation Drift Net Study in Area 29 (DFO)
August 18/2006: Nicomekl River and Serpentine River Chinook Opening (DFO)
August 17/2006: Lingcod Closure Canceled (DFO)
August 15/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
August 15/2006: Strait of Georgia Lingcod Closure (DFO)
August 11/2006: No evidence of coal contamination in Thompson and Fraser River (DFO)
August 11/2006: Skeena River Coho Openings (DFO)
August 11/2006: Kemano, Kitlope, Dala Rivers Coho Openings (DFO)
August 11/2006: Salmonopolis' Violation of the Month
August 10/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Fisheries
August 09/2006: Cheakamus River Public Meeting
August 09/2006: Region 3 Chinook and Sockeye Salmon Opening
August 09/2006: Commercialization of BC Parks
August 08/2006: Guided Fraser Sockeye Trips Available
August 08/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
August 08/2006: Massive Oil Spill in Howe Sound
August 08/2006: Nature Trust Aids Englishman (Parksville Qualicum News)
August 04/2006: Skeena River Chinook Salmon Closure (DFO)
August 04/2006: No Fishing around Mission Hydroacoustic Counter
August 04/2006: Fraser River JST Sockeye Salmon Tagging Program
August 03/2006: Job Opening at Pacific Salmon Foundation
August 03/2006: Spawners Get Another Boost in the Hope Slough (The Progress)
August 02/2006: More in WCVI Chinook Conservation Measures (DFO)
August 02/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update
August 02/2006: Harrison River Sockeye Opening (DFO)
August 02/2006: Non-tidal Fraser River Sockeye Opening (DFO)
August 01/2006: WCVI Chinook Conservation Measures (DFO)
August 01/2006: Upper Johnstone Strait Sockeye Opening (DFO)

July 2006

July 31/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
July 31/2006: Upper Cheakamus River Reopens
July 31/2006: Coquitlam River Cleanup
July 31/2006: Area 12 and 13 Pink and Coho Salmon Daily Limits (DFO)
July 28/2006: Seymour Salmon Hatchery Volunteering Opportunities
July 28/2006: Homepage Problems
July 27/2006: Area 23 Sockeye Closure (DFO)
July 27/2006: Region 2/Non-tidal Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
July 27/2006: Area 29 Sockeye Retention (DFO)
July 26/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
July 21/2006: Southern BC Sockeye Retention (DFO)
July 21/2006: Barkley Sound, Alberni Inlet Sockeye Daily Quota Reduction (DFO)
July 21/2006: Marine Biotoxin Update (DFO)
July 21/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
July 19/2006: Seymour Salmon Hatchery Volunteer Opportunities
July 19/2006: Aquatic Invertebrate Survey on Spanish Bank Creek
July 17/2006: The Brunette (Burnaby News Leader)
July 17/2006: 9th Annual Stuart Lake Fishing Derby Result
July 15/2006: Upper Alberni Inlet Closure (DFO)
July 14/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
July 13/2006: Children's Fisheries Coming (in Kelowna) (Kelowna News)
July 11/2006: Kildala River Chinook Daily Quota (DFO)
July 10/2006: Employment Opportunity at Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance
July 10/2006: Seymour Salmon Hatchery Volunteer Opportunities
July 04/2006: Chilliwack River Adipose Clip Sockeye Alert
July 04/2006: Fun, Exciting and Educational!
July 04/2006: Salmon Run Expected Among Best in 15 Years (Globe and Mail)
July 04/2006: It Came from the Pond (The Georgia Strait)

June 2006

June 30/2006: DFO Releases 2006 Salmon Integrated Fisheries Management Plan
June 30/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Update (DFO)
June 25/2006: September is Wild Salmon Month
June 22/2006: DFO to Crack Down in Pacific Region (Opinion 250)
June 22/2006: Millstone River Project Comes Under Scrutiny (Nanaimo News Bulletin)
June 20/2006: DFO Beefs up West Coast Conservation Enforcement (DFO)
June 20/2006: Family Fishing Event a success at Cultus Lake
June 20/2006: Fantastic Family Fishing Day in Courtenay
June 19/2006: Forage Fish Workshop
June 16/2006: Coquihalla Steelhead Opening Proposal
June 16/2006: Cultus Sockeye Recovery Website
June 16/2006: White Sturgeon SARA Consultation
June 16/2006: Marine Biotoxin Advisory (DFO)
June 15/2006: Comox Lake Family Fishing Weekend
June 14/2006: No Retention of Sockeye Salmon in Southern BC (DFO)
June 14/2006: Smelt Fishing Closures in Area 28 and 29 (DFO)
June 13/2006: Latest Kanaka KEEPS Watch
June 13/2006: Skeena Fish Farm Public Forum
June 13/2006: Continued Riparian Encroachment (Parksville Qualicum News)
June 13/2006: Meighan Creek Bridge Spawns concerns (Whistler Question)
June 12/2006: Get Hooked... Have Fun on June 16th, 17th and 18th
June 12/2006: Mill Lake Family Fishing Day
June 12/2006: Fraser River Sockeye Salmon Tagging Study
June 11/2006: American Shads Wanted
June 11/2006: Electrofishing Job Posting
June 11/2006: Seymour River Volunteers Needed
June 11/2006: Region 2 Trout Stocking Information Updated
June 08/2006: Go Fish Rice Lake!
June 07/2006: No ‘race-based’ fishery in Cultus Lake deal, says DFO official (The Progress)
June 07/2006: Senior DFO Officials to Account for Gravel Removal (The Progress)
June 07/2006: Cultus Lake Pikeminnow Derby
June 07/2006: Lafarge Lake Family Fishing Day
June 07/2006: The Latest Steelhead Review
June 07/2006: Area 28 and 29 Coho Salmon Opportunities (DFO)
June 07/2006: BC Salmon Future in Hot Water (The Tyee)
June 07/2006: Salmon Fry Begin Long Journey (The Chronicle)
June 06/2006: Job Opportunities, Aboriginal Fisheries Technicians
June 06/2006: Volunteers Needed at Seymour Salmonid Society
June 06/2006: WCVI Coho Salmon Opportunities (DFO)
June 06/2006: Area 11 - 20 Coho Salmon Opportunities (DFO)
June 05/2006: Elk Lake Public Meeting on Rowing Club Expansion
June 05/2006: 6th Annual Davey Derby
June 05/2006: Creating a River's Reunion (Whistler Question)
June 05/2006: It's not Easy Being Me (Cowichan Newsleader)
June 05/2006: Trapped Fish Guided to Free Waters (Aldergrove Star)
June 02/2006: Berry's Bait and Tackle's Father's Day Week Blow Out
June 01/2006: Crab daily quota varied at Nimpkish River Mouth (DFO)
June 01/2006: Job Opportunity at Georgia Strait Alliance
June 01/2006: Biological Technician Job Opportunity
June 01/2006: Seeking Cash to Stop Erosion (Kamloops This Week)
June 01/2006: (Port Hardy) Fishing Season Promising (North Island Gazette)

May 2006

May 31/2006: 9th Annual Stuart Lake Fishing Derby
May 31/2006: Shoreline Closures in Area 28 (DFO)
May 30/2006: Job Opportunity in Management of Fish and Sustainable Fisheries
May 30/2006: Native Fishery Deal Could End 14-Year Battle (canada.com)
May 29/2006: Spring Specials at Reaction Fly and Tackle
May 28/2006: 14th Annual Outdoor Recreation Show
May 20/2006: Volunteers needed on July 8th
May 16/2006: Chum Fry Release at Douglas Creek
May 10/2006: Something's fishy on Moss Street (Saanich News)
May 10/2006: Bounty Fishing Helping Save Salmon (Yahoo! News)
May 10/2006: Cultus Lake Pikeminnow and Milfoil Update
May 10/2006: Georgia Strait Lingcod/Rockfish Opening (DFO)
May 10/2006: Area 23 Sockeye Salmon Retention (DFO)
May 08/2006: "Heart of the Fraser" Presentation
May 06/2006: Late Chinook Run Puzzles Idaho Biologists (Yahoo! News)
May 05/2006: Protect Sockeye Runs Now (Salmon Arm Observer)
May 04/2006: 43lb Chinook Salmon Caught at Pedder Bay
May 04/2006: Parks Canada's Open House on Strait of Georgia
May 03/2006: DFO Reminds All About In-season Changes (DFO)
May 03/2006: 6th Annual Riversheds Forum
May 02/2006: SEHAB Forum on Coho Salmon
May 01/2006: Fraser River Chinook Salmon Openings (DFO)

April 2006

April 28/2006: Fingerling Festival
April 28/2006: Byrne Creek bouncing back after spill (NewsLeader)
April 26/2006: Science Supports Blended Wildstock-Hatchery Solution (Ministry of Environment)
April 26/2006: 2006 Just for Halibut Derby
April 26/2006: Seymour Salmon Hatchery Volunteer Opportunities
April 22/2006: Tree Planting at Jackman Wetlands
April 21/2006: Okanagan Sockeye Fry Rlease on May 19th
April 21/2006: Something's Fishy at Boston Bar (Hope Standard)
April 21/2006: Save Our Skeena Salmon: Bad News but Hope
April 20/2006: 2006 Regulations for Squamish and its Tributaries (DFO)
April 19/2006: Criminal Probe Sought in Salmon Deaths (globeandmail.com)
April 18/2006: Mine killed two million salmon, report claims (canada.com)
April 18/2006: Redd Desiccation & Alevin Mortalities
April 16/2006: Fish loss feared at Serpentine (The Leader)
April 13/2006: Gravel, Fish and Floods
April 12/2006: Fish Banking, Trading of Fish, Possession Limit Reminders (DFO)
April 10/2006: Ambush Education on Maple Creek
April 09/2006: Spring Sales at Berry's Bait and Tackle
April 07/2006: Interior Coho Salmon not on SARA (DFO)
April 05/2006: Local River at Risk is on a Roll (Parksville Qualicum News)
April 04/2006: This Week's Lower Mainland Trout Stockings
April 04/2006: Coho Hit the Creek (Peninsula News)
April 03/2006: Steelhead Recovery Plans come Under Review (The Globe and Mail)
April 03/2006: Cheakamus Plan Criticized (canada.com)
April 02/2006: Wally Hall Memorial Fish Derby Gives Back

March 2006

March 29/2006: Remember to Renew your Licences
March 28/2006: Rhetoric threatening river peace, say native fishers (The Progress)
March 27/2006: Decline of the eulachon: Are candlefish getting snuffed out? (Tri-city News)
March 25/2006: UBC Scientists to Speak out on Cheakamus River Steelhead
March 23/2006: Adopt-A-Fish, North Vancouver
March 22/2006: Fishing Survey
March 21/2006: Cheakamus Ecosystem Restoration Stakeholder Team meeting
March 20/2006: BC’s Most Endangered River of 2006
March 16/2006: Stewards of the Strait
March 16/2006: Management Planning for the 2006 Fraser River Salmon Season
March 16/2006: BC Conservation Corps
March 15/2006: Salmon allocation in Yale treaty attacked by Tory MP (The Progress)
March 15/2006: Loss of fish habitat shows 'abdication of responsibility' by DFO (The Progress)
March 14/2006: Salmon habitat restoration project nets $50 Grand (Parksville Qualicum News)
March 13/2006: Scheduled Trout Stocking in the Lower Mainland
March 11/2006: Fish-stocks mystery untangled (Globe and Mail)
March 10/2006: Millions of salmon eggs lost at gravel removal site (The Progress)
March 10/2006: Spring Break Ideas
March 09/2006: Chilliwack River Action Committee AGM
March 07/2006: Province to Hire Additional Conservation Officers (bc.gov.ca)
March 07/2006: Yale First Nation Reach Agreement-in-principle on Treaty (canada.com)
March 06/2006: Higher Sockeye Numbers Projected for this Summer (Tri-City News)
March 06/2006: Gear Restriction on Eulachon in Freshwater (DFO)
March 05/2006: Numbers tally 2005 Salmon Losses (Maple Ridge News)
March 04/2006: Penner to Release Hatchery Pink Salmon Fry
March 03/2006: Employment Opportunities in Learn to Fish Program
March 02/2006: Spill wipes out fish in Byrne Creek (Newsleader)
March 02/2006: Tories delay planned staff cuts at DFO (CKNW)
March 02/2006: Calling Mr. Penner: Hatchery Augmentation Now (Whistler Question)
March 02/2006: Seymour Salmon Hatchery Employment Opportunity
March 01/2006: Native Fishers Seek more say in Fraser River Fishing Plans (The Progress)

February 2006

February 28/2006: Coquitlam River Gravel Impacts Information Meeting
February 28/2006: Young Salmon to be Transferred to the Cheakamus (CKNW)
February 27/2006: CRAC'S Annual General Meeting
February 26/2006: Reuniting the Mamquam (Whistler Question)
February 22/2006: Anglers West Spey Clave
February 21/2006: 2006 Vancouver Boat Show - Final Numbers Release
February 20/2006: 4th National Fly Fishing Championship
February 18/2006: Missing Fish are not Missing?
February 18/2006: Protest Fishery Conviction Overturned (CKNW)
February 17/2006: Revised Rockfish Conservation Areas
February 17/2006: Frustrated anglers, locals, confront CN at Squamish open house (Pique)
February 16/2006: Chilliwack River Chinook Salmon Regulation Change (DFO)
February 15/2006: Stream Cleanup Backed (Maple Ridge News)
February 12/2006: National Fly Fishing Update
February 10/2006: Some Downloads for Upcoming Thompson River Workshops
February 10/2006: Squamish Salmon Recovery Plan Funding Opportunity
February 09/2006: Magnitude of CN Cheakamus Spill still not Realized by Many (CKNW)
February 09/2006: Friday Night Community Forum in Langley
February 03/2006: Stewards of the Strait Launched
February 02/2006: Alberta Wins Nod for 2007 National Fly Fishing Championships

January 2006

January 30/2006: Want to Build Your Own Fly Rod?
January 29/2006: Saving the Fraser River: Can it be Done?
January 25/2006: 2005 Survey of Recreational Fishing in Canada (DFO)
January 19/2006: Nominations for BC's Most Endangered Rivers for 2006
January 18/2006: Three Thompson River Steelhead Population Recovery Workshops
January 17/2006: Chilliwack DFO Field Office has Moved
January 16/2006: Upcoming Open House regarding CN Rail and Cheakamus River
January 12/2006: Spring Funding Round Starts Now at Pacific Salmon Foundation
January 10/2006: "Heart of the Fraser" Campaign
January 10/2006: Salmonopolis' Violation of the Month (Salmonopolis)
January 10/2006: Fishing can Transform Ocean Ecosystems (DFO)
January 06/2006: Is It Safe to Eat Salmon? (Toronto Star)
January 05/2006: Be Careful Eating Some Fish, Washington Officials Say (The Olympian)
January 05/2006: Five Deep-Sea Fish on Brink of Extinction (livescience.com)
January 04/2006: Gregoire's Ambitious Plan to Clean Sound (seattlepi.com)
January 03/2006: Alex Morton’s Court Hearing Postponed
January 02/2006: 62nd Annual Vedder River Steelhead Derby
January 01/2006: Happy New Year!

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