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Article: BC Pacific Salmon Forum: Final Year of $3 Million Research Program to Address Key Knowledge Gaps and Create Basis for Ecosystem Based Management of Coastal Salmon
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- February 27, 2008
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NANAIMO, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 27, 2008) - The BC
Pacific Salmon Forum today released plans for the final year of its
two year research program in the Broughton Archipelago to address
further knowledge gaps and inform new approaches to managing coastal
wild and farmed salmon. Total cost of the program is expected to be
near $3 million with research building collaboration between
researchers and a range of funding partners.
Three broad categories of research identified in 2007 will be
followed in 2008: (1) Quantification of fish and sea lice dynamics
during the juvenile salmon out-migration period (2) Impacts of lice