Tuesday December 16, 2025
Vancouver Island Free Daily —
Optimism for the future of Chinook salmon is swimming up Muchalat River near Gold River, in Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations (MMFN) territory.
Kent O’Neill, president of the Nootka Sound Watershed Society (NSWS), says he observed hundreds of fish using a newly restored gravel spawning pad at the outflow area of Muchalat Lake this fall.