DFO bows to public pressure, reverses course on salmon program cuts

Conservationists called reversal a relief, but questions remain over DFO decision-making

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has reversed a series of proposed cuts that stewardship groups say would have decimated British Columbia’s salmon stocks. Last month, it was revealed that DFO planned to phase out its Resource Restoration Unit over the next three years, along with two other components of its Salmonid Enhancement Program, eliminating education and technical support contracts and the production of steelhead and cutthroat trout at federal hatcheries.…

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• Whistler News

June 21, 2017

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