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British Columbia hosts 22 species of native and introduced salmonids. This list reflects the conservation status of British Columbia salmonids with status from the B.C. Species and Ecosystems Explorer, current as of August 2023. [1] Status definitions were taken from NatureServe. [2]
Butedale. Coordinates: 53°09′N 128°41′W. Butedale is a ghost town on Princess Royal Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1911 as a fishing, mining and logging camp. [1] Initially the salmon cannery was established by Western Packers which was purchased and operated by the Canadian Fishing Company until it ceased ...
1 Fish and seafood. 2 Fruit and vegetables. 3 See also. ... This is a list of canneries and cannery towns in British Columbia, Canada. Fish and seafood. Alert Bay;
The province British Columbia in Canada is known for its high biodiversity with over 185 wildlife vertebrate, 171 bird species, and a variety of conifer and deciduous trees. [16] In forestry management, it is important to recognize the cumulative effects of habitat and environmental changes that have the potential to threaten BC forests.
www.comox.ca. Comox (English: / ˈkoʊmɒks /) [2] is a town on the southern coast of the Comox Peninsula in the Strait of Georgia on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [3] Thousands of years ago, the warm dry summers, mild winters, fertile soil, and abundant sea life attracted First Nations, who called the area kw'umuxws ...
Pitt Lake is the second-largest lake in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. About 53.5 km 2 (20.7 sq mi) in area, it is about 25 km (16 mi) long and about 4.5 km (2.8 mi) wide at its widest. It is one of the world's relatively few tidal lakes, and among the largest. In Pitt Lake, there is on average a three-foot tide range; thus Pitt Lake ...
United States, Canada. Surface elevation. 2,459 feet (750 m) Lake Koocanusa (KUU-KAN-USA) is a reservoir in British Columbia (Canada) and Montana (United States) formed by the damming of the Kootenai River by the Libby Dam in 1972. The Dam was formally dedicated by President Gerald Ford on August 24, 1975. [1]
Rivers Inlet was a major fishing area with huge salmon runs. At one time it had the second largest sockeye salmon run only to the Fraser River. A total of 19 Canneries were built in the area starting late in the 1890's. Three canneries remained as they dotted the shorelines until their closure by consolidation through the monopoly of companies ...