Sockeye salmon may be added to Species at Risk Act
KAMLOOPS — The Shuswap Environmental Action Society calls it “the most significant ackowledgement to date of the jeopardy facing the sockeye salmon.”
This as the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, an independent scientific body that advises the federal government, recommended Monday that the sockeye salmon be listed under the Species at Risk Act.
“Well or course all of us in the Shuswap and elsewhere, who really appreciate our salmon, our wild salmon, especially the sockeye salmon, should be very concerned about this news,” says SEAS president Jim Cooperman. “We are waiting to find out which specific populations are proposed to be listed.”
At this point, he doesn’t think any local populations that come back to the Adams and the other rivers in the Shuswap, are the ones of concern.