{"id":186089,"date":"2023-10-12T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=186089"},"modified":"2023-10-12T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T21:56:48","slug":"a-pink-mystery-cortes-island-sees-pink-salmon-in-record-numbers-in-local-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/a-pink-mystery-cortes-island-sees-pink-salmon-in-record-numbers-in-local-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘Pink Mystery’ — Cortes Island sees pink salmon in record numbers in local waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cortes Island is seeing Pink Salmon in three waterways for the first time in eight years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Longtime \u2018Streamkeeper\u2019 Christine Robinson has only seen pink salmon swimming on Cortes twice in the 20 years she has been observing the fish with her partner. Streamkeepers is a volunteer group of citizen fish scientists observing local streams. They are associated with the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a delight and a surprise to discover that we have them showing up all along the east side of Cortes\u201d, Robinson cheered.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DFO even asked the local citizen science group to help collect clipped fins from the Pink adult carcasses for DNA sampling, to find answers as to why the Pink Salmon populations are increasing in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Streamkeepers, through the prompting of [Department of} Fisheries, took DNA samples ..because we are trying to make some sense of this \u2018Pink Mystery\u2019 that is upon us.\u201d Robinson said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robinson referred to research actively being collected by <\/span>Alexandra Morton<\/span><\/a>\u00a0about why the Pink are showing up in larger numbers and new places.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe is proposing that since the fish farms in the Discovery Islands\u2026 were pulled out a year and half ago ...such healthy pink salmon is because they haven\u2019t been exposed to the fish farms [that were previously] in the area.\u201d Robinson explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an issue which may be related, Pacific Salmon Commission is forecasting <\/span>11.6 million Pink Salmon in the Fraser River<\/span><\/a>, several million more than originally forecast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Robinson encourages quiet, respectful observations of the pink salmon migration on the island. \u201cWe have a wildlife safari here on Cortes\u201d, she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

To hear more about the Pink Salmon visiting Cortes Island, listen to the CKTZ News Update below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cortes Island is seeing Pink Salmon in three waterways for the first time in eight years. Longtime \u2018Streamkeeper\u2019 Christine Robinson has only seen pink salmon swimming on Cortes twice in the 20 years she has been observing the fish with her partner. Streamkeepers is a volunteer group of citizen fish scientists observing local streams. They…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":186407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,223],"tags":[31309,31305,31304,31306,31307,31303],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186089"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186410,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186089\/revisions\/186410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186089"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=186089"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=186089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}