Fishers, Experts Await Details on Ottawa’s Latest Plan to Save Pacific Salmon

Fishers, Experts Await Details on Ottawa’s Latest Plan to Save Pacific Salmon
A sockeye salmon is reeled in by a fisherman along the shores of the Fraser River near Chilliwack, B.C., in a file photo. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
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VANCOUVER—As a teenager, Murray Ned was accustomed to fishing for salmon three days a week all year round on the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia.

Three decades later, the longtime Sumas First Nation councillor and member of the joint U.S.−Canadian Pacific Salmon Commission said he expects salmon fisheries on the river will have opened for a total 25 days or less for the entire year.