EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — Last Call: The Will to Save Pacific Salmon: A Report of the Pacific Salmon Forests Project
Published by:
David Suzuki Foundation
Authored by:
Terry Glavin
Biodiversity, Oceans and fresh water species at risk, salmon, fisheries and aquaculture, protecting coastal waters, forests, Pacific Salmon Forests Project, British Columbia, conservation, economics, land use, policy and regulation, community and culture
Informed observers – fisheries biologists, Aboriginal People, conservationists, commercial fishermen and anglers – have told us for years that if wild salmon are to have a future on Canada’s west coast, we must be prepared to make sweeping changes to the way we do things on land, in rivers and at sea.
This is the executive summary of Terry Glavin’s report, Last Call: The Will to Save Pacific Salmon, which sounds the alarm on time running out to protect Pacific salmon stocks. In it, he argues that governments must set aside their differences and orient fisheries policy and practices as well as land use planning to conserve wild salmon. A new commitment is needed to ensure that salmon remain a part of British Columbia’s coastal ecology, culture and economy.
