ASF Calling on Fisheries and Oceans Canada to Take Immediate Action to Move Trapped Rocky River Salmon

The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) is calling on Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to take immediate action to assist hundreds of trapped wild Atlantic salmon in Rocky River, Newfoundland and Labrador.  An ongoing fishway construction project, overseen by DFO, is preventing the salmon from moving upriver, leaving them unable to spawn and produce more salmon. The fishway project, located near Colinet, was started earlier this summer but it won’t be completed prior to the salmon’s ...