Restoring salmon to Okanagan basin is priority one
Encouraging efforts are underway to improve the Okanagan River system’s beleaguered salmon population, including the opening today of the Okanagan Lake Dam Fish Passage.
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After 100 years salmon can finally return to Okanagan Lake
For the first time in nearly 100 years salmon have regained access to Okanagan Lake’s cool deep waters and 14 crucial spawning creeks with the opening of the Okanagan Lake Dam Fish Passage today (August 19).
ONA fisheries warns on low salmon numbers
The fisheries department of the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) is warning the community of a limited harvesting season of sc̓win (sockeye salmon) in the coming weeks, due to a forecast predicting low fish returns.
syilx call their salmon relatives home
After carefully stepping down a bouldered stairway, syilx Nation members stop at the edge of sq’awsitkʷ (the Okanagan River), with one baseball-sized rock in each hand — ready to call their salmon relatives home.
Okanagan fish passage to be re-opened after blocked for decades
More than 70 years after a dam blocked salmon from moving through their historic habitat, members of the syilx Okanagan Nation are celebrating the creation of a future fish passage.
Chinook makes ‘milestone’ return home to Okanagan Lake
By Aaron Hemens, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For the first time in known recent history,...
Okanagan water board calls out feds on invasive mussel funding
The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) has decried the potential cutting of funding by the federal government which supports invasive mussel inspections in BC calling it “unacceptable and unjustifiable”.
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Osoyoos water forum starts with Salmon People
“The salmon people are our relatives,” was the fundamental message for non-Indigenous participants at the start of the 2022 Nk’mip (Osoyoos Lake) Water Science Forum in Osoyoos last week. This year’s water forum took on a very ambitious aim to bridge traditional Indigenous approaches to water issues with Western scientific methods.
Record year for sockeye salmon returning to Okanagan
A record-setting half a million sockeye salmon are expected to return to Okanagan waterways this month to spawn, testament to years of work to rescue the devastated salmon ecosystem by the Okanagan Nation Alliance and its partners.
Return of salmon part of Columbia River Treaty negotiations
First Nations are asking for the return of the salmon to the entire Columbia River system as part of the Columbia River Treaty negotiations, including the upper portion of the Arrow Lakes, in order to reclaim their culture.
B.C. outdoor group calls for removal of U.S. dam south of Osoyoos
Quinn Bender Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A B.C. outdoor group is hoping some cross-border...
Salmon fishing on Osoyoos Lake opens to public July 31
Sophie Carrigan Gray Local Journalism Initiative Salmon fishing on Osoyoos Lake will open to...
Syilx/Okanagan diet quality positively impacted by increased food sovereignty, says study
Sophie Gray Local Journalism Initiative Underneath the surging waters of the Okanagan River on the...
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