Shared waters. Shared Responsibility.
We are united behind wild salmon.
Salmon face a tipping point. We’re uniting to defend our food security, our fishing communities and a future with wild salmon.
Wild salmon connect us.
Wild Pacific salmon are the shared foundation of our food security, culture and identity. They sustain local economies and British Columbia’s environment from the interior to the coast. First Nations’ connection to wild salmon stretches back thousands of years.
Sign the Salmon United Declaration
We stand for:
- Science-based reforms to domestic and international policies to ensure safe passage for fish returning to their home rivers;
- Fairness, transparency and accountability in all salmon management efforts;
- Management of salmon in the long-term best interest of ecosystems, communities, and future generations; and
- Coordinated efforts to protect salmon habitat.
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United Voices for Wild Salmon
A growing number of voices from across BC and beyond have already signed the declaration.
BC Federation of Fly Fishers
UBC Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation Laboratory
Watershed Watch Salmon Society
SkeenaWild Conservation Trust
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
BC Salmon Marketing Council
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Join us in defending our wild salmon, ecosystems and fishing communities.
When salmon disappear, the impacts ripple out across the province.
Wild salmon connect us to our rivers, our coast, our communities, and each other. Defending them is about more than conservation. It is about safeguarding food security, healthy ecosystems, local economies, and a way of life that has shaped British Columbia for millennia.
Wild Salmon populations are declining
Across the Pacific Northwest, wild salmon runs are disappearing at alarming rates – more than two-thirds of salmon populations are below their long-term average, with some populations plummeting by over 90%. This collapse threatens our food security, the local economies and cultures of fishing communities, and wildlife that depend upon them.
Habitat is under pressure
Healthy salmon require healthy rivers. Urban development, barriers to fish passage, warming waters, forestry, mining, agriculture, and cumulative environmental impacts continue to degrade habitat and reduce salmon survival.
Coastal communities and local economies are at risk.
Salmon are woven into the fabric of coastal communities, supporting livelihoods, driving tourism and sustaining local economies. Allowing salmon declines to continue puts these livelihoods at risk, threatening Indigenous communities, commercial and recreational fisheries and small towns across the province.
The way we fish isn’t working
Most BC salmon populations are in decline, yet they continue to be harvested in open-ocean fisheries, far from home, while persistent monitoring gaps make it difficult to track the true scale of the crisis. Protecting and rebuilding salmon requires transparent management, the transition to known-stock selective fishing, and agreements that reflect today's realities rather than those of decades past.
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