When Kh’asheechtlaa, Louise Brady, a Tlingit matriarch, founded Herring Protectors in 2016 to protest the scale of the commercial herring fishery in Alaska, herring numbers were dwindling.

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Text: Scientist Spotlight, Virginie Chalifoux, PhD Student, UBC. Virginie Chalifoux is a Ph.D. student in Applied Animal Biology in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. Her work explores the relationships between fish ecology and their responses to climate change stressors. Photo credit: Radio-Canada/Camille Vernet https://ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/12610/ocean-oeufs-biodiversite-poissons-cb. Picture: A woman with brown hair and a knit toque wears a black jacket and a life jacket and smiles at the camera. She is sitting in the bow of a zodiac on the water with steep tree covered hills and shorelines, typical of the Pacific northwest, in the background. The background for this graphic is a picture of a person’s hands cupping seaweed that is covered in small, gelatinous herring embryos, translucent eggs ~1 mm in diametre.

New post! In this #ScientistSpotlight, we interviewed Virginie Chalifoux, a PhD Student at UBC studying how the ecology of Pacific #salmon and #herring 🐟 can impact their response to #OceanAcidification.

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Satellites track the tiny silver fish hugely important to marine life A new scientific endeavour has taken to the sky using high-tech drones and satellite images to understand better the annual spring herring spawn vital to salmon and wildlife on the West Coast.

similarities to this article on #PacificHerring here in BC 🧪🌎🦑
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Pacific Herring spawning in the 4000 year old Mowachaht village of Yuquot on western Vancouver Island (also a colonial birthplace of BC) as seen from the PacificHerring spotter plane earlier this month https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057497467275

im loving how #PacificHerring spawning is a good news story - building momentum towards ocean awareness (via clouds of milt)-its so crucial that we regularly celebrate the wonder of the #ocean so people who spend most of their lives looking at screens get out there :) 🧪🌊🌎
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