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The Nova Scotia Salmon Association is maximizing the benefits of the U.S. Clean Air Act by giving a river that is home to endangered wild Atlantic salmon in southern Nova Scotia continuous doses of lime. St. Andrews, NB - CANADA (PRWEB) February 18, 2013 The Nova Scotia Salmon Association is maximizing the benefits of the U.S. Clean Air Act by giving a river that is home to endangered wild Atlantic salmon in southern Nova Scotia continuous doses of lime. The U.S. Clean Air Act has...
University of Washington Salmon runs are notoriously variable: strong one year, and weak the next. New research shows that the same may be true from one century to the next. Scientists in the past 20 years have recognized that salmon stocks vary not only year to year, but also on decades-long time cycles. One example is the 30-year to 80-year booms and busts in salmon runs in Alaska and on the West Coast driven by the climate pattern known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Now work...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Federal regulators have moved one step closer to allowing the first genetically engineered animal to enter the world's food supply, ruling that a salmon that grows twice as quickly as normal is not likely to harm the environment. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a declaration on Friday stating the modified AquAdvantage fish, which was developed by Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies would have "no significant...
Today, viable technologies produce healthy farmed fish completely separate from the surrounding environment and wild fish. St. Andrews, NB, Canada (PRWEB) September 19, 2012 Farming Atlantic salmon in high tech closed containment land based operations, rather than in nets that sit in the ocean, is catching on. Today, viable technologies produce healthy farmed fish completely separate from the surrounding environment and wild fish. Around the world, farmers are recognizing that there is a...
Wild Atlantic salmon returns to Maine's Penobscot River are the lowest they have been since the year 2000 and only 20% of what they were in 2011, according to the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) St. Andrews, NB, Canada (PRWEB) August 29, 2012 Wild Atlantic salmon returns to North America are disappointingly low this year, especially in the rivers of Maine. The Penobscot River, which is undergoing a major restoration program, had only 609 salmon return from their ocean migration by...
Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) research to determine why significant numbers of migrating salmon leave rivers but so few return to spawn is the focus of a documentary, Atlantic Salmon - Lost at Sea, being produced by the Emmy-winning Irish American film maker Deirdre Brennan of New York City. St. Andrews, NB Canada (PRWEB) July 25, 2012 Research detectives have been at work at the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) first developing the technology and then sleuthing the ocean to find...
The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) welcomed NASCO's decision to continue a moratorium on commercial salmon fishing at Greenland, where salmon from North America’s east coast rivers migrate to over-winter and feed. St. Andrews, NB, Canada (PRWEB) June 12, 2012 The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) welcomed the decision of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) at last week’s meeting in Edinburgh to continue a moratorium on commercial salmon fishing at...
Al meeting being held in Edinburgh, Scotland from June 3 to 8, has the ability to make or break the beginnings of wild Atlantic salmon restoration in North America. St. Andrews, NB Canada (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 The outcomes of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from June 3 to 8, have the ability to make or break the beginnings of wild Atlantic salmon restoration in North America. “Up for negotiation,” said...
Charity Bids, providers of the world’s most advanced auction platform built specifically for non-profit fundraising has announced that it has launched an auction to benefit Atlantic Salmon Federation, an organization dedicated to the conservation, protection and restoration of wild Atlantic salmon and the ecosystems on which their well being and survival depend. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 18, 2012 Charity Bids, providers of the world’s most advanced auction platform built specifically...
Restoration Program Partners will Stock Atlantic Salmon in Duffins Creek PETERBOROUGH, ON, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, will help stock yearling Atlantic Salmon in Duffins Creek with local MP Chris Alexander, Mayor Dave Ryan, Ontario Power Generation employees, Fleming College hatchery staff and students from Holy Redeemer Catholic School and Pine Ridge Secondary School. Earlier in the day, the students and Ontario...
Latest Atlantic salmon Reference Libraries
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, from the Latin words "Salmo" meaning salmon, and "salar" meaning "leaper") is a species of fish in the Salmonidae found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and in rivers that flow into the Atlantic. It breeds in the rivers of Western Europe from northern Portugal north to arctic Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and the east coast of North America from Connecticut in the United States north to northern Labrador in arctic Canada. At sea, it is found mainly in the waters...
Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the Salmonidae family "“ although several other fishes in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Salmon are anadromous: they are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce. Folklore has it that the fish return to the exact spot where they were born to spawn and modern research shows that usually at least 90% of the fish spawning in a stream were born...
