Monday January 19, 2026
CBC —
Yukon chinook and chum salmon have faced declines for years, but new assessments are shedding light on the status of smaller population groups, many of which are struggling.
The smaller groups are known as conservation units, says Stephanie Peacock with the Pacific Salmon Foundation, the organization behind the assessments and the corresponding database.
“They’re sort of a unit of biological diversity that’s unique and unlikely to recolonize in a human lifetime if they’re extirpated,” said Peacock.