Lack of Clayoquot chinook raising alarm bells

Lisa Stewart
Westerly News
March 27, 2008

"Something's wrong and we're not sure what it is." That was the comment March 20 to the Clayoquot Sound Central Region Board (CRB) from Fisheries and Oceans' assistant area director Wilf Luedke.

Luedke spoke to the CRB on a subject the board has talked about at previous meetings - that there were once thousands of Chinook salmon in Clayoquot Sound's Bedwell and Mooyah rivers and now there are barely 100 - that there were once half-a-million sockeye in Kennedy Lake system and now there are so few they can't be counted - that the last count showed only 13 fish in Clayoquot Sound's Megin River.

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