New research suggests 70% decline in diversity of B.C. sockeye salmon stock in past century

Scales from sockeye salmon harvested more than a century ago show the fish returning to the country’s second largest watershed for salmon are 70 per cent less diverse than they were in 1913, according to a new study.

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