By Talar Stockton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Yukon News Salmon populations aren’t being monitored as much as they were in the past, according to a recent study from a non-profit out of British Columbia. The report, entitled “Monitoring for fisheries or for fish? Declines in monitoring of salmon spawners continue despite a conservation crisis,” was published on Sept. 10 in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. The Pacific Salmon Foundation found that there’s been a decline in the monitoring of spawning salmon since the 1986 across British Columbia and the Yukon. The study said there was an average decline of 41 monitored populations per year. However, the Yukon-specific context is unique. “There is sort of a combination of reduced monitoring in some places, but also poor reporting of…
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