Sweeping privately funded study launched to find out why salmon stocks collapsed in BC/US waters

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/sweeping-study-aims-to-find-why-salmon-stocks-collapsed/article18749501/

Sweeping study aims to find why salmon stocks collapsed
Mark Hume
VANCOUVER ? The Globe and Mail
Published Monday, May. 19 2014, 7:41 PM EDT
Last updated Monday, May. 19 2014, 7:41 PM EDT
With almost $10-million in funding raised from private donors, corporations and non-profits, the Pacific Salmon Foundation has started a salmon research project unlike anything the government ever attempted.

Launched on the 20th anniversary of the collapse of coho and chinook salmon stocks in the Strait of Georgia, the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project is aimed at finding out why the crash happened ? and determining what can be done to restore the runs...

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Fishing-boats-become-salmon-labs-263111881.html

Fishing boats become salmon labs in Puget Sound

by GARY CHITTIM / KING 5 News
Posted on June 13, 2014 at 7:53 PM

Updated today at 10:45 PM

NEAR OLYMPIA, Wash. -- More than 40 scientists in U.S. and Canadian waters are catching batches of young salmon to find out why they can be so healthy in the rivers but begin to die off in Puget Sound.

Studies show some species die at a rate of 80 percent from the time they leave their native river and get through the Sound to The Pacific Ocean.

There are similar concerns all the way through the northern Strait of Georgia, which, when combined with Puget Sound, forms the Salish Sea...