"Best Fishing Ever" : Record Salmon Returns to Campbell River

In 2009, the Campbell River and Quinsam River had record returns of pink salmon. At last count, an estimated 800,000 pink salmon returned, which is the highest return on record for this river system.

Campbell River is simply living up to it's name as "The Salmon Capital Of The World"!

The excellent salmon returns echo other Vancouver Island rivers such as the Nanaimo and Quatse rivers.

The Broughton Archipelago (near Port McNeill) was so over run with pink salmon, that a commercial seine and gill net fishery was opened in the area (Area 12) by late August 2009.

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[botheyesopen1]

you know where to have good success prawn fishing? within a few hundred yards of a salmon farm, since they are scavengers , what is it ,near a salmon farm that they are after? hmm, i suppose this will get deleted to. closed containment salmon farms i can agree with. is there salmon farms on the migration route of these wild stocks that have returned to campbell river area ?

[MarineHarvestCanada]

@botheyesopen1 Yes, the prawn fishing is typically good near our sites. And yes, these pink salmon will migrate north through Johnstone Strait, similar to the Fraser River pink and sockeye and most mid/southern Island salmon stocks.

[botheyesopen1]

i little more to the point, the reason the prawns are there is the excess amounts of fecal matter and spoiled fish food excaping from the net pens , but i thank you for your honesty. it may do well for the prawns, but also suffucates all imobile marine life in and around the pens. i am a rec. diver. excuse my baiting, regarding farms on the migration route of campbell river area wild stocks, there isnt any . but you didnt bite. think that has anything to do with the returns????