PM announces probe into B.C. salmon stocks

John Ibbitson
November 5, 2009
The Globe and Mail

Alarmed at declining stocks of sockeye salmon off Canada's Pacific coasts, The Conservative government has launched a judicial inquiry in an effort to find out why.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the inquiry in the House of Commons this afternoon.

As the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans has said on numerous occasions, we are very concerned about the low and falling returns of sockeye salmon in British Columbia.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans reported in August that only 1.37 million sockeye returned to the Fraser River this year, a shadow of 10.6 million that the department had predicted.

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