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Herring

“The Spawn Is Life”

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🤝 Come join our team! 🎉
Pacific Wild Alliance is seeking a Fundraising and Marketing Manager to help power one of Canada’s most impactful conservation organizations.

If you’re a strategic fundraiser, a creative marketer, and a relationship-builder at heart — and you want your work to directly support the protection of British Columbia’s wildlife and wild places — this role is for you.

📍This is a full-time, permanent position working from our office in Victoria, B.C., Monday through Friday from 9:00am – 5:00pm. Relocation assistance will be evaluated for the successful candidate; however, only those legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered.

👉To apply, please send your resume and cover letter outlining your background and experience to hr@pacificwild.org .
⏳ Applications will be accepted until March 15, 2026 at midnight.
🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

#Hiring #Conservation #DreamJob #Fundraising #Development #ConservationJobs #PacificWild

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🤝 Come join our team! 🎉
Pacific Wild Alliance is seeking a Fundraising and Marketing Manager to help power one of Canada’s most impactful conservation organizations.

If you’re a strategic fundraiser, a creative marketer, and a relationship-builder at heart — and you want your work to directly support the protection of British Columbia’s wildlife and wild places — this role is for you.

📍This is a full-time, permanent position working from our office in Victoria, B.C., Monday through Friday from 9:00am – 5:00pm. Relocation assistance will be evaluated for the successful candidate; however, only those legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered.

👉To apply, please send your resume and cover letter outlining your background and experience to hr@pacificwild.org .
⏳ Applications will be accepted until March 15, 2026 at midnight.
🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

#Hiring #Conservation #DreamJob #Fundraising #Development #ConservationJobs #PacificWild

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⚠️ Despite scientists, communities, and Indigenous leaders calling for a moratorium, the Strait of Georgia roe fishery opened: seine on March 1, gillnet on (March 4). Both kill pre-spawn herring for roe export.

This season’s gillnet Total Allowable Catch (TAC) is 5,559 tons, seine is 6,075 tons.

In a troubling move, DFO raised the total TAC by 1,603 tons to 14,390 tons across all herring fisheries – a 14% harvest rate.

🐟 With incomplete assessments showing 28,620 tons tons of herring so far in the Strait of Georgia, the current combined roe quota could remove ~41% of observed herring before spawning – nearly half before they reproduce.

👉Join our call for a moratorium on theStrait of Georgia kill fishery today.
🔗 Letter writing tools linked in our bio.

#herring #PacificHerring #Conservation #PacificWild

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⚠️ Despite scientists, communities, and Indigenous leaders calling for a moratorium, the Strait of Georgia roe fishery opened: seine on March 1, gillnet on (March 4). Both kill pre-spawn herring for roe export.

This season’s gillnet Total Allowable Catch (TAC) is 5,559 tons, seine is 6,075 tons.

In a troubling move, DFO raised the total TAC by 1,603 tons to 14,390 tons across all herring fisheries – a 14% harvest rate.

🐟 With incomplete assessments showing 28,620 tons tons of herring so far in the Strait of Georgia, the current combined roe quota could remove ~41% of observed herring before spawning – nearly half before they reproduce.

👉Join our call for a moratorium on theStrait of Georgia kill fishery today.
🔗 Letter writing tools linked in our bio.

#herring #PacificHerring #Conservation #PacificWild

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✍️ I gripped my seat as we ground our way inch by inch up the snowy logging road and wondered how Ben, the German shepherd in the covered truck bed, was faring.

“It’s all just guts and feathers now,” Ian mused, gesturing to the few stands of trees left between clearcuts on the mountainside ahead. “They’ve logged everything else.”

We’d come with a group of big-tree enthusiasts to track down rumours of an ancient hemlock, 2 metres in diameter, hidden in a patch of old-growth that BC Timber Sales calls TA1375 – and is now auctioning to the highest bidder.

We saw wonders everywhere we looked as we wound our way through the quiet, snow-dusted forest. We found winter chanterelles wearing icy caps, bear mark trails, and monumental yellow cedars likely over a thousand years old. At the base of one giant that towered over a little clearing of blueberry bushes, I noticed an opening at its base. "Do you think that could be a bear den?"

Ian crouched down, and I offered him my cellphone light. “Yes. Look, you can see where the bears chewed out the cavity,” he said. “They’re incredible architects. No one’s been denning here this season though.”

A few hundred metres away, we had just slithered through an almost impassable clearcut. Even in this quiet grove, I could hear chainsaws echoing from another logging operation across the valley. I wondered whether that was the reason the bear den went unused this year.

Eventually, we reached the tree: an ancient western hemlock, measuring 1.98m across, encircled by a ring of similar giants.

Greg, a retired forest technician, estimated it at around 800 years old–the age struck me; this hemlock was already centuries old when Canada became a country.

This tree qualifies as an official Legacy Tree, and this forest had been previously designated as a priority deferral area.

🚨 Yet, TA1375 is up for auction until tomorrow, March 5th at 11 am.

❗Join me in urging Premier Eby @davidebybc and Minister Parmar @rparmarbc to cancel this sale and build a legacy instead of destroying one.

#OldGrowth #SavetheTsitika #Forestry #BCPoli
Text and images by Natasha W.

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✍️ I gripped my seat as we ground our way inch by inch up the snowy logging road and wondered how Ben, the German shepherd in the covered truck bed, was faring.

“It’s all just guts and feathers now,” Ian mused, gesturing to the few stands of trees left between clearcuts on the mountainside ahead. “They’ve logged everything else.”

We’d come with a group of big-tree enthusiasts to track down rumours of an ancient hemlock, 2 metres in diameter, hidden in a patch of old-growth that BC Timber Sales calls TA1375 – and is now auctioning to the highest bidder.

We saw wonders everywhere we looked as we wound our way through the quiet, snow-dusted forest. We found winter chanterelles wearing icy caps, bear mark trails, and monumental yellow cedars likely over a thousand years old. At the base of one giant that towered over a little clearing of blueberry bushes, I noticed an opening at its base. "Do you think that could be a bear den?"

Ian crouched down, and I offered him my cellphone light. “Yes. Look, you can see where the bears chewed out the cavity,” he said. “They’re incredible architects. No one’s been denning here this season though.”

A few hundred metres away, we had just slithered through an almost impassable clearcut. Even in this quiet grove, I could hear chainsaws echoing from another logging operation across the valley. I wondered whether that was the reason the bear den went unused this year.

Eventually, we reached the tree: an ancient western hemlock, measuring 1.98m across, encircled by a ring of similar giants.

Greg, a retired forest technician, estimated it at around 800 years old–the age struck me; this hemlock was already centuries old when Canada became a country.

This tree qualifies as an official Legacy Tree, and this forest had been previously designated as a priority deferral area.

🚨 Yet, TA1375 is up for auction until tomorrow, March 5th at 11 am.

❗Join me in urging Premier Eby @davidebybc and Minister Parmar @rparmarbc to cancel this sale and build a legacy instead of destroying one.

#OldGrowth #SavetheTsitika #Forestry #BCPoli
Text and images by Natasha W.

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🎓 Research Feature: Peter Bradley, MA (University of Guelph)

🐟 Curious how fisheries science becomes management? Peter’s master’s research started with his public blog Herring Scraps, a space where he explored how knowledge about herring is constructed and contested. His thesis traces how state-led scientific narratives shaped the Sitka Sound herring fishery in Alaska. What he found there led him to ask similar questions closer to home in British Columbia (B.C.).

📊 In his latest work, Peter digs into how DFO’s population assessments and egg counting methods in B.C. frame herring status as “healthy”, even as Indigenous communities and conservation groups point to long-term declines and conflicting knowledge systems. By comparing methodologies and assumptions across borders, his research highlights how science and policy interact to influence how herring, a foundation species, are understood and (mis)managed across borders.

📖 Dive deeper into Peter’s thesis and his ongoing investigation into herring science and governance on his blog: Herring Scraps.

🔗 www.herringscraps.com

#PacificHerring #Herring #BIGlittlefish #ProtectPacificHerring #SustainableFisheries #FisheriesScience #TraditionalEcologicalKnowlege

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🎓 Research Feature: Peter Bradley, MA (University of Guelph)

🐟 Curious how fisheries science becomes management? Peter’s master’s research started with his public blog Herring Scraps, a space where he explored how knowledge about herring is constructed and contested. His thesis traces how state-led scientific narratives shaped the Sitka Sound herring fishery in Alaska. What he found there led him to ask similar questions closer to home in British Columbia (B.C.).

📊 In his latest work, Peter digs into how DFO’s population assessments and egg counting methods in B.C. frame herring status as “healthy”, even as Indigenous communities and conservation groups point to long-term declines and conflicting knowledge systems. By comparing methodologies and assumptions across borders, his research highlights how science and policy interact to influence how herring, a foundation species, are understood and (mis)managed across borders.

📖 Dive deeper into Peter’s thesis and his ongoing investigation into herring science and governance on his blog: Herring Scraps.

🔗 www.herringscraps.com

#PacificHerring #Herring #BIGlittlefish #ProtectPacificHerring #SustainableFisheries #FisheriesScience #TraditionalEcologicalKnowlege

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🌊 What we can’t see matters!

🐟🦈🐋 Beneath the waves lies a world most of us never see: the pelagic zone. This open water column, stretching far beyond the nearshore, is home to everything from tiny plankton to Pacific Herring, sharks, whales, and seabirds that spend nearly their entire lives at sea.

Though out of sight, the pelagic zone is essential. It drives global climate regulation, supports marine biodiversity, and sustains the ocean’s food chains and nutrient cycles. Protecting it isn’t optional.

💙 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) aren’t just for reefs and nearshore habitats. In Canada, new MPAs safeguard the pelagic zone, protecting species and processes we rely on from threats and disturbances like such as oil and gas exploration and exploitation, mining, dumping and bottom trawling.

After the creation of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the world’s largest fully-protected MPA, yellowfin tuna catches rose 54% near its border, with measurable gains for bigeye tuna and other species. MPAs don’t just conserve species and ecosystems, they help fisheries thrive.

Let’s protect the ocean, from the bottom to the open water above for both the planet and people.

🔗 Read our new blog about why Canada`s commitment to 30x30 matters more now than ever. Link in bio.

#MarineProtection #MPA #MarineProtectedArea #GreatBearSea #GreatBearSeaMPA #MPANetwork #30x30 #IndigenousLedConservation

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🌊 What we can’t see matters!

🐟🦈🐋 Beneath the waves lies a world most of us never see: the pelagic zone. This open water column, stretching far beyond the nearshore, is home to everything from tiny plankton to Pacific Herring, sharks, whales, and seabirds that spend nearly their entire lives at sea.

Though out of sight, the pelagic zone is essential. It drives global climate regulation, supports marine biodiversity, and sustains the ocean’s food chains and nutrient cycles. Protecting it isn’t optional.

💙 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) aren’t just for reefs and nearshore habitats. In Canada, new MPAs safeguard the pelagic zone, protecting species and processes we rely on from threats and disturbances like such as oil and gas exploration and exploitation, mining, dumping and bottom trawling.

After the creation of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the world’s largest fully-protected MPA, yellowfin tuna catches rose 54% near its border, with measurable gains for bigeye tuna and other species. MPAs don’t just conserve species and ecosystems, they help fisheries thrive.

Let’s protect the ocean, from the bottom to the open water above for both the planet and people.

🔗 Read our new blog about why Canada's commitment to 30x30 matters more now than ever. Link in bio.

#MarineProtection #MPA #MarineProtectedArea #GreatBearSea #GreatBearSeaMPA #MPANetwork #30x30 #IndigenousLedConservation

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🐚🌊 Marine protected areas (MPAs) can rebuild populations of commercially important species, like scallops, and the science shows they can strengthen fisheries over time.

📈 A 14-year study of great scallops in a closed area off the Isle of Man found that scallop densities increased dramatically inside the protected zone compared to adjacent fished areas. By 2003, the density of legally harvestable scallops was more than seven times higher inside the closed area, and the total amount of harvestable scallops was almost 11 times higher. Even more striking, reproductive biomass was 12.5 times higher, meaning far greater spawning potential. Protection also reduced indirect fishing mortality and disturbance. Juvenile scallops had higher survival and growth rates inside the closed area, supporting long-term population recovery.

💪🏽 MPAs don’t just benefit species inside their boundaries, they can help rebuild spawning stock, enhance recruitment, and ultimately support more productive fisheries over time. MPAs aren’t about closing the ocean, they’re about securing its future for ecosystems, cultures and economies.

🔗 Read our new blog about why Canada`s commitment to 30x30 matters more now than ever. Link in bio.

#MarineProtection #MPA #MarineProtectedArea #GreatBearSea #GreatBearSeaMPA #MPANetwork #30x30 #IndigenousLedConservation

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🐚🌊 Marine protected areas (MPAs) can rebuild populations of commercially important species, like scallops, and the science shows they can strengthen fisheries over time.

📈 A 14-year study of great scallops in a closed area off the Isle of Man found that scallop densities increased dramatically inside the protected zone compared to adjacent fished areas. By 2003, the density of legally harvestable scallops was more than seven times higher inside the closed area, and the total amount of harvestable scallops was almost 11 times higher. Even more striking, reproductive biomass was 12.5 times higher, meaning far greater spawning potential. Protection also reduced indirect fishing mortality and disturbance. Juvenile scallops had higher survival and growth rates inside the closed area, supporting long-term population recovery.

💪🏽 MPAs don’t just benefit species inside their boundaries, they can help rebuild spawning stock, enhance recruitment, and ultimately support more productive fisheries over time. MPAs aren’t about closing the ocean, they’re about securing its future for ecosystems, cultures and economies.

🔗 Read our new blog about why Canada's commitment to 30x30 matters more now than ever. Link in bio.

#MarineProtection #MPA #MarineProtectedArea #GreatBearSea #GreatBearSeaMPA #MPANetwork #30x30 #IndigenousLedConservation

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