Tsilhqotʼin National Government initiates emergency salmon task force

The Tsilhqotʼin National Government (TNG) is initiating an emergency salmon task force.

Increased sediment, debris and flow to the Chilcotin River and Fraser River has and will continue to have dramatic impacts to this year’s sockeye and chinook run, according to a TNG press release.

The TNG is calling on all levels of government, downstream First Nations, the Pacific Salmon Commission and other Nations and States, especially Alaskan fisheries, to take all precautionary measures possible to conserve Tsilhqot’in territory-bound salmon and to immediately cease from fisheries that may impact these stocks until the impacts from the landslide and breach are fully understood.