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#SyilxNation

from @FixTheNews

This is such #GoodNews

"And sockeye salmon have returned to Okanagan Lake after a century, thanks to a new fish passageway built by the Syilx Nation in partnership with local and national authorities. This will allow steelhead, rainbow trout, sockeye salmon, chinook salmon and kokanee salmon to reach their historic spawning waters after crossing nine Columbia River dams."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sockeye-salmon-okanagan-lake-1.7614045

#Environment #Salmon #OkanaganLake #FirstNations #Penticton #SyilxNation

Gabriel thanked the Youth for starting the ceremony off “in a right way,” and said it warms his heart that they are witnessing the ground break for the site of the future fish passage.

“You will see the salmon return to our lakes, as they did well before the 1900s — salmon that we lived with for thousands of years,” he said.

#rewilding #salmon #watersheds #SyilxNation #okanagan #canada

https://indiginews.com/news/okanagan-fish-passage-blocked-for-decades-set-to-be-re-opened