Ottawa set to suspend salmon fishing on Fraser

Federal fisheries officials are expected to announce later today that the commercial fishery for summer sockeye salmon on the Fraser River will not open this year.

Experts had initially forecast a strong year, with 11 million summer sockeye salmon on the Fraser. However, officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans now say they anticipate around three million fish. Officials attribute the dramatic miscalculation to a failure to measure the impact of the devastating effect of warmer-than-usual water in the Pacific Ocean and the Fraser River.

So not the fishery collapse that was necessarily predicted (in this blog), but not encouraging news either.