In The News

The activities of the Medway River Salmon Association include raising public awareness about the issues that concern us and keeping the public informed about our activities.  From time to time our activities are profiled in the media.  Below is a selection of some of the print media coverage.

• Salmon Association carries out roadside clean-up.  The Queens County Advance, June 28, 2016.
• Anatomy of Mersey hatchery’s destruction.   Halifax Chronicle Herald, March 3, 2014
• Editorial: Give locals a chance with Mersey hatchery.  Halifax Chronicle Herald, February 3, 2014.
• Mersey Biodiversity Facility on last legs.  The Queens County Advance, December 17, 2013
• From hatchery to river. The Queens County Advance, February 26, 2013.
• Protecting jobs in rural areas. The Queens County Advance, November 20, 2012.
• Journey to the Medway. The Queens County Advance, June 14, 2011.
• Healthy Watersheds. The Queens County Advance, April 12, 2011.
• A fishy tale from Mill Village. The Queens County Advance.  February 22, 2011.
• Wild Atlantic salmon classified as endangered. The Queens County Advance, December 14, 2010.
• Detective work in the sea – Investigating depleting salmon stocks. www.projectsmagazine.eu.com
• Invasive species spotted in Queens. The Queens County Advance, August 20, 2010.
• Something fishy. Lunenburg Progress Enterprise. May 25, 2010.
• Salmon could be returning to the Medway River. The Queens County Advance.  May 18, 2010.
• Hatching ideas. The Queens County Advance.  April 13, 2010.
• Expert says liming needed to restore salmon stocks. Bridgewater Bulletin and Lunenburg Progress Enterprise.  March 16, 2010.

Other references appear from time to time which are worthy of keeping and sharing on this site:

• Rallying to save the Mersey Biodiversity Facility.  An interview of Lewis Hinks of the ASF, CBC Information Morning, 23 December, 2013.
• SeeingIt. A good year hints at what might lie ahead.  Atlantic Salmon Journal winter 2011 edition editorial.  January 16, 2012.
• Economic value of wild Atlantic salmon.  A commissioned report for the Atlantic Salmon Federation, January 9, 2012.
• 23 June, 2011.   Help For Salmon In Nova Scotia.  
• A paper by R. W. Gray, Biologist, Resource Branch, Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
• Liming restores Atlantic salmon populations in acidified Norwegian rivers.
• A paper by Trygve Hesthagen, Bjorn M. Larsen, and Peder Fiske.
• Assessment of the 2009 West River, Sheet Harbour Atlantic salmon smolt migration. A paper by the Nova Scotia Salmon Association.
• NASCO 2011 June ASF Post. An Atlantic Salmon Federation update.