{"id":31743,"date":"2023-06-21T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=31743"},"modified":"2023-08-11T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:48:17","slug":"back-from-the-brink-wild-salmon-return-to-inner-bay-of-fundy-following-efforts-led-by-fort-folly-first-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/back-from-the-brink-wild-salmon-return-to-inner-bay-of-fundy-following-efforts-led-by-fort-folly-first-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the brink: Wild salmon return to inner Bay of Fundy following efforts led by Fort Folly First Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FortFollyHabitatRestoration.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31746\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\"\/><figcaption><em>Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon population has rebounded in two watersheds in Fundy National Park, and the Petitcodiac River has also seen improvements, according to Fort Folly Habitat Recovery. Photo: ffhr.ca<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Inner Bay of Fundy wild salmon population, which collapsed in the 1990s, is experiencing an apparent rebound following efforts led by Amlamgog, also called Fort Folly First Nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To mark the return of the endangered wild salmon this season, a ceremony is taking place to bless the waters for their safe passage at Alma Beach today, National Indigenous Peoples Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim Robinson, director of <a href=\"http:\/\/ffhr.ca\/new-about-us\/\">Fort Folly Habitat Recovery<\/a>, credited the leadership of the small Mi&#8217;kmaw community with ensuring the survival of wild salmon in the inner Bay of Fundy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Tim-1-1024x768-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31744\" width=\"-2236\" height=\"-1678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Tim-1-1024x768-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Tim-1-1024x768-1-768x576.jpeg 768w\" \/><figcaption><em>Tim Robinson. Photo: ffhr.ca<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChief Rebecca [Knockwood] speaks of salmon as being traditionally, culturally one of those iconic species that&#8217;s so important to the First Nations peoples across Canada and the non-Indigenous people as well,\u201d Robinson said in an interview with CHMA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople want salmon back in their rivers,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd, you know, we&#8217;re determined to do our part and make that happen, and it&#8217;s just not acceptable to be inactive.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Listen to the report from CHMA: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"blob:https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/f4524e86-e5b1-4126-bac1-9e7572c289e1\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wild salmon saw a major decline throughout the Atlantic region starting in the 1980s, particularly in the area known as the inner Bay of Fundy, which includes some 50 watersheds north of the Wolastoq River.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That population has been listed as endangered under Canada&#8217;s Species at Risk Act since 2003.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their numbers \u201cdwindled from 40,000 a half-century ago to fewer than 250 by the year 2000,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gnb.ca\/content\/gnb\/en\/departments\/10\/news\/news_release.2016.06.0565.html\">provincial government<\/a> said in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/afeR_mVmBPbuA7fICe4wQqOXW9wErtzoroSOfj7CU3p3pclzK1OaHmIAbUWuz9O25O8cOaq1XKALG32mhA-KsZLHD254P_uIEv8HD1_sHQ3RURtdNNMkV5fPYMNRsR8WEuiksZRcqp3H-4zXPojlyfw\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"555\"\/><figcaption><em>A chart shows changes in observed salmon returns at two major watersheds in Fundy National Park. Handout from Fort Folly Habitat Recovery. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But in recent years, the Inner Bay population has rebounded in two watersheds in Fundy National Park: namely, the Upper Salmon and Point Wolfe river systems, where returns have reached a 35 year high.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have also been improvements in the Petitcodiac watershed, according to Fort Folly Habitat Recovery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the coming months, the group is anticipating that adult salmon will be returning to those three rivers, with greater volumes in the years to come.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/services\/species-risk-public-registry\/action-plans\/atlantic-salmon-inner-bay-fundy-2019.html\"><\/a>The Fundy Salmon Recovery Model involves collecting Atlantic salmon smolts \u2014 young salmon that are ready to migrate to the ocean \u2014 and rearing them at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca\/science\/orga\">Mactaquac Biodiversity Facility<\/a>, a Department of Fisheries and Oceans complex near Fredericton.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mature fish are mated to ensure genetic diversity, and then released into their home rivers, according to the department. DFO conducts a genetic analysis of those fish at the Mactaquac facility, a \u201clive gene bank\u201d that yields about half a million eggs annually for Inner Bay repopulation efforts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1137px) 100vw, 1137px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-13.57.51.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31745\" width=\"1061\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-13.57.51.jpg 1137w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-21-at-13.57.51-768x522.jpg 768w\" \/><figcaption><em>Map from Department of Fisheries and Oceans<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Folly Habitat Recovery also worked with the group Petitcodiac Riverkeeper to lobby successfully for the removal of the river causeway in Moncton, which disrupted salmon populations along that river after it was built in the 1960s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, it was replaced with a bridge spanning the Petitcodiac, a river that&#8217;s sacred to Fort Folly First Nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The habitat recovery project has also resulted in employment for Indigenous youth, who are trained as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/fort-folly-habitat-recovery-targeting-bay-of-fundy-salmon-1.3092687\">river technicians<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group has released more than one million unfed fry \u2013 fish at an early developmental phase \u2013 into the Petitcodiac Watershed, along with more than 8,000 mature adults, re-establishing the population.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just last week, they \u201creleased a total of over 100,000 Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon fry\u201d into that watershed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fortfollyhabitatrecovery\/posts\/pfbid0LTK6qcRsmrw6XYrqk1ZBL4ynp4JPsqSZr6EEU68rd9QWmMAjvUtM3T42n3bEBJpwl\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And Robinson says these methods could be reproduced in other rivers, including ones closer to home, like the Tantramar and the Memramcook Rivers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Efforts by Fort Folly Habitat Recovery have grown over the years to include a long list of partnerships, including Cooke Aquaculture, the fish farming company, which manages the <a href=\"https:\/\/huddle.today\/2021\/10\/21\/aquaculture-technology-key-to-restoring-wild-atlantic-salmon\/\">Wild Salmon Marine Conservation Farm<\/a> at Dark Harbour, Grand Manaan Island.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workers at that facility, which is billed as the first of its kind in the world, grow juvenile salmon in \u201cconservation sea pens\u201d before mature adults are released to spawn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CEO of that company, Glenn Cooke, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookeseafood.com\/2018\/10\/19\/fundy-salmon-recovery-efforts-a-success\/\">hailed<\/a> the initiative as an \u201can ideal model for action oriented, science-based conservation efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But salmon farming companies including Cooke have also faced <a href=\"https:\/\/nbmediacoop.org\/2023\/02\/24\/open-letter-salmon-farming-lobby-isnt-fooling-anyone-about-open-net-pen-aquaculture\/\">criticism from conservationists<\/a>, who say open-net pen aquaculture harms wild Atlantic salmon \u2014 due to factors such as sea lice \u2014&nbsp;and should be removed from marine environments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson acknowledged that open-net pen farming might be contributing to the pressures on salmon populations but stressed the need for collaboration, adding that he doesn\u2019t believe fish farms alone could be driving the losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it was more likely \u201cdeath by a thousand cuts,\u201d including forestry practices, river barriers, changes to the food web, and shifting temperatures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson isn\u2019t Indigenous, but he\u2019s been working for Fort Folly First Nation since 1995. The First Nation has been working on the habitat restoration project since the late 90s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indigenous and non-Indigenous members of the project are happy with the results, he said. \u201cWe&#8217;re very humbled and very honoured to be part of Fort Folly\u2019s leading role in stewardship and recovery of the iconic inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fortfollyhabitatrecovery\/posts\/pfbid026JGdSjS4rnwGoG1fDyTwNqg3CET1nEgWfmtw9yeHkDrdHrLtGjQJsPN2myW9upR2l\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Indigenous Elders Betty Ward of Metepenagiag and Joan Milliea of Elsipogtog First Nations will be at Alma Beach at Fundy National Park today for a ceremony and celebration, and the public is invited to attend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parks Canada posted the following schedule online:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6:00 p.m. &#8211; 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