Salmon Steward

(salmon, top) courtesy u.s. FIsH anD WIlDlIFe serVIce/tImotHy knepp salmon Steward magazine 9 2006 B.C. Living Rivers Trust, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society commit $22 million over the next six years to create the Fraser Salmon and Watersheds Program, jointly run by the Pacific Salmon Foundation and Fraser Basin Council. More than 300 projects are funded to improve watershed governance, fisheries management, habitat, and public engagement in watershed stewardship. 2006 Pacific Salmon Foundation and Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society renew five- year funding agreement with focus on supporting the Fraser Salmon and Watersheds Program. 2009 First biennial Pink Salmon Festival to celebrate pink salmon sustainability hosted by Pacific Salmon Foundation in Vancouver. 2011 Pacific Salmon Foundation brings Salmon- Safe land certification to British Columbia to provide commercial landowners with guidelines to protect Pacific salmon habitat and water quality – 22 B.C. farms are certified during year one of the new program. To date, 42 farms have been certified. 2011 Pacific Salmon Foundation and Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society renew agreement through 2014 with focus on expanding the Community Salmon Program in the Strait of Georgia and continuing the legacy of work in the Fraser Basin. 2012 Pacific Salmon Foundation, Sitka Foundation and University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre announce three-year project to create a Strait of Georgia research centre. 2013 Prior to 2013, the Pacific Salmon Foundation received only $1 from each $6 Salmon Conservation Stamp. In 2013, the federal budget made a change to have 100 per cent of Stamp funds returned to British Columbia via grants through the Foundation. 2013 Pacific Salmon Foundation launches the five-year Strategic Salmon Health Initiative with Genome BC and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The project investigates the role of infectious disease in salmon declines, including interactions between wild and farmed salmon, and wild and hatchery salmon. 2014 Pacific Salmon Foundation launches five-year, $10-million Salish Sea Marine Survival Project in the Strait of Georgia. The Project is aimed at restoring lost fisheries, which mysteriously declined by about 90 per cent from 1993-95 and never recovered. 2015 Projects funded by Community Salmon Program surpass $100 million in total value, including leveraging from local communities. 2016 Skeena Salmon Program launches the Pacific Salmon Explorer. The online tool makes key data about habitat pressures, stock assessment and habitat conditions in the Skeena Watershed broadly available to the public in a highly visual format. n 2012 2006 2013 2009 2015 2011 2014 2016 YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS

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