The Pacific Salmon Commission has recommended a conservation plan to manage salmon stocks on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border that proposes a 12.5 per cent reduction in B.C. The treaty covers pink, coho, sockeye, chum and chinook salmon and spans a territory from Cape Falcon, Ore., in the south to southeast Alaska in the north. They include chinook stocks from Puget Sound in Washington and the Columbia River basin that straddles Oregon and Washington. Benefits for orcasIn a release, Washington state Gov. J50 is believed to have died recently and biologists point to a depleted population of chinook salmon, the orca's main food source, as one of the potential reasons.

Source: CBC News September 18, 2018 17:33 UTC