Surrey salmon hatchery rebuilding after 2021 flooding

Surrey salmon hatchery rebuilding after 2021 flooding

River at UBC's Malcolm Knapp Research forest

February 15, 2023

CSFS Associate Tara Ivanochko, Professor of Teaching in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences was interviewed about salmon hatcheries.

“They’re a Band-Aid sort of targeted intervention when a stock is really depleted,” said Ivanochko. “But they shouldn’t be seen as the way that we proceed in the long term where we’re providing these hatched fish that will then go in and intermingle with the wild stocks.”

Read the full article at City News (Vancouver).