Doom-and-gloom outlook for salmon

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. -- The next century's outlook for wild salmon in a region stretching from California to southern B.C. is not good.

Participants in the Salmon 2100 Project have concluded the current recovery efforts of wild salmon -- left unchanged -- will leave only remnant populations by the end of the century, says Robert Lackey, one of the participants and co-editor of The Future of Wild Pacific Salmon.

The Salmon 2100 Project is a consortium of 33 salmon scientists, policy analysts, and salmon advocates who are looking at how to sustain wild salmon populations in the Canada and the U.S.

The areas of concern are largely confined south of the Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island.

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