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While practicing some spey casting today on the South Thompson River I saw a pretty good chironomid hatch. These early emergences definitely indicate that spring is not far off. The southern interior regions of the province are experiencing an incredibly mild winter with very minimal snowpack...

By Phil Rowley When I first learned to fly fish, as with other fly fishers, I dreamt of one day casting to rising trout while standing knee deep in one of North America’s blue ribbon trout streams. Rivers such as the Madison, Henry’s Fork, Missouri and the Green filled my imagination.

Leatherback turtles are listed as endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) and they have a critically endangered listing on a worldwide basis. They are found in all of the major oceans in the world, except in the most extreme northern and southern latitudes, and consist of four major populations divided into Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and South China Sea groupings. One of the reasons they are so widely distributed is because they have the unique ability amongst reptiles to internally regulate their body heat. This means they can adapt to colder sea temperatures which they encounter once they move away from the tropical latitudes on either side of the equator. These turtles are true ocean wanderers, often following the currents for up to 15,000 km a year. One tagged specimen apparently traveled just over 30,000 km in a single year.

STATEMENT OF DR. BRIAN RIDDELL, PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATIONFederal Budget Calls For Salmon Conservation Stamp User Fees to Stay In B.C. Dr. Brian Riddell, president and CEO of the Pacific Salmon Foundation, made the following statement today responding to the release of the 2013 federal budget. When enacted the budget will return...

Atlantic Salmon raised at a Glacier Falls fish farm on the B.C coast. Photograph by: Bill Keay , PNG files VANCOUVER — A B.C. government announcement Friday that no new tenure agreements would be issued for net-pen salmon farms in the Discovery Islands until 2020 was immediately welcomed by one of the...

Neil Cameron / Courier-Islander March 27, 2013 Both salt water and fresh water fishing licences and various conservation tags are due by April 1, but Department of Fisheries and Oceans has said the hard copies of salt water licences will be delayed for at least three weeks. The new halibut regulations - which...

Who would have thought that I would be stumped trying to write about my two most involved and time consuming activities? I mean, lets face it, I live and breath fly-fishing and nature photography. If I’m not talking about it or actually out there taking part then I must be...

By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun June 17, 2013Photograph by: Todd Moen, The Associated Press Files , Vancouver SunMany private run-of-river hydro project authorizations require monitoring reports pertaining to water quality and fisheries, but a new report shows a large degree of non-compliance.Private run-of-river hydro facilities are failing to meet both...