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Article: BC Pacific Salmon Forum Releases New Study That Spotlights Complex Factors Impacting Wild Salmon in the Broughton Archipelago
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- April 28, 2008
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NANAIMO, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 28, 2008) - A new
study published by the BC Pacific Salmon Forum throws light on
environmental and other conditions and events in the Broughton
Archipelago over nearly 60 years.
Broughton Archipelago: A State of Knowledge, by Dr. Isobel A.
Pearsall, contains more than 600 pages of data on salmon
escapements, commercial salmon harvests, farmed salmon production,
sea lice counts on wild and farmed salmon, climate and rainfall,
river discharges, ocean currents, waste management and marine
escapes, forest harvesting and watershed assessments. Dr. Pearsall
pulled these data together from a wide variety of government sources
as well as from ...