Pacific herring conservation may depend on more than simply maintaining enough fish. “Age structure and diversity of herring populations are essential,” says Dorrance Woodward, Denman Island resident and chair of the Association for Denman Island Marine...
Stz’uminus Elder and longtime fisherman Ray Harris remembers a Salish Sea very different from the one many people know today. “What people don’t know is that the huge abundance we had doesn’t exist anymore,” Harris says. “People today think the way it is...
Dear Herring School, It has been a very busy six months for the HCRS (Herring Conservation & Restoration Society) volunteer board and the W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs (WHC) in support of their Pacific Herring Declaration to pause the herring commercial fishery in the...
The Saturna Island Marine Research & Education Society (SIMRES) is hosting a Herring School presentation on Saturday, March 14, 2026 at the Saturna Community Hall. Briony Penn and Connie Crocker (Xqulsiim) will share the latest scientific findings are on...
Collishaw Point on Hornby Island had a lovely look but a strange spawn. There was male milt in the water, there was male milt frothed up and laid on all the rockweed….but not an egg to find. Until we found a clue, a tiny broken piece of Japanese Sargassum...
