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What do young salmon eat? Is there enough food for them when they leave the rivers and streams and enter the ocean?

These are two very important questions if you are trying to increase the number of salmon in our local waters, and in 2007 the Quinsam Hatchery approached the BC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences about how to do just that, and so began the Discovery Passage Plankton Monitoring and Juvenile Salmon Assessment project in partnership with DFO and Atlegay Fisheries Society.

Western premiers and U.S. governors hailed Sunday their push to develop a cross-border western energy corridor that will be the largest on the planet and one that develops both non-renewable and clean-energy options. Spearheaded by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, the plan could open new markets to the three Prairie provinces, which are all major energy producers in both renewables and fossil fuels.