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Article: BC Pacific Salmon Forum Calls for Action on Cheakamus River
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- CCNMatthews Newswire
- Article date:
- April 7, 2006
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NANAIMO, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - April 7, 2006) - The BC
Pacific Salmon Forum has called on Provincial Environment Minister
Barry Penner to authorize an immediate conservation fish culture
hatchery initiative to help repopulate the Cheakamus River with
steelhead.
The steelhead present in the river were essentially obliterated by
the derailing of a CN train and the dumping of caustic soda into the
river in August, 2005.
Jeremy Maynard, a member of the Forum's Board and Chairman of the
Sport Fishing Advisory Board to DFO, says it has been pretty well
determined that the accident "largely destroyed most if not all of
three generations of the river's steelhead stock."
"Enhancing the ...