Story by Mark Hume In the big scheme of things on the Pacific Coast it may be that Spanish Bank Creek is meaningless. Then again, this little stream that trickles down out of housing developments, crosses under busy roads and plunges through a wild ravine before flowing into the harbour of a...

Excerpt from the new book Skeena Steelhead Unknown Past, Uncertain Future Story by Bob Hooton with Photography by Dana Atagi   The world is replete with examples of fisheries that once were. Whether it be bluefin tuna, coral reef fishes of southeast Asia, the northern cod of eastern...

Story by Mark Hume with Photos by Nick Didlick On one side of the fence is E. Stanley Kroenke, an American multi-billionaire whose Douglas Lake Cattle Co. runs 20,000 head of cattle on more than 500,000 acres of rolling grasslands and pine forest in southern British Columbia. On the other side...

By Fred Laird with Photography by Mark Hume A book excerpt from – Casting from the Far Bank The morning sun was cresting the ridge on the east side of the North Branch River and beginning to light the top of Wrightsville Dam. The subtle change in air temperature that it caused began to...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Nick Didlick Sockeye salmon in the Fraser River are dying from exhaustion and…cardiac collapse as they struggle to deal with water temperatures that are steadily rising because of climate change. A federal judicial inquiry, appointed by Prime...

Story by Mark Hume Salmon are the base of everything in the Pacific Northwest. Fishermen have known that intuitively for a long time, but now it has been confirmed in a set of studies from salmon ecology researchers at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia. In one of the largest field...

Story by Mark Hume with Photos by Nick Didlick Through the murky window of the trailer the parts strewn on the deck and scattered around the yard slowly come in to focus. They are bits and pieces from float planes and appear to have been scavenged from wrecks. There are more parts, newer, half...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Erin McKittrick On the website of the corporate conglomerate promoting development of a massive mine above Alaska’s fabled Lake Iliamna, and Bristol Bay, is a reference to British Columbia’s great Fraser River sockeye run of 2010. The video...

Story and Photography by Nick Didlick Henslung Cove, Langara Island, British Columbia On my first morning I am awakened early by a group of ravens calling to each other in a language I strain to understand. Gazing out the window into the predawn mist drifting through the trees I find it easy...

Story by Margaret Munro with Photography by Nick Didlick Cruising through a sea of plankton far out in the North Pacific the sockeye was feasting on a rich source of protein that allowed it to grow rapidly, and make its remarkable migration back to its spawning stream on the West Coast of...

Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Margaret Munro The Inuit village of Sachs Harbour lies on the southern tip of Banks Island in the central Canadian Arctic, about 500 miles East of the Alaska-Yukon border. It is way out there in the middle of nowhere and about as far from salmon country...

Story By Mark Hume with Photographs by Nick Didlick For several years in British Columbia provincial fisheries experts and conservation groups have been taking steps to try and mitigate the impacts of climate change. They have been building small impoundment dams at head-water lakes to hold...