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1 fishing opening on the Cowichan ... river is in a “catastrophic” state due to a perfect storm of factors such as high-water temperatures and drought, say advocates. A 6.4-kilometre “dead ...
Search and rescue teams along the Cowichan River are warning the river has changed ... and if they end up in the trees — then it’s a death trap, unfortunately,” he said.
Hundreds of tiny silver salmon and trout fry have been discovered dead at the bottom of a canyon at the base of Skutz Falls on the Cowichan River system and the cause of the mass die-off is a mystery.
It’s the second death in as many years linked to tubing on the Cowichan River. In July 2017 ... time that the woman passed a “pullout” zone, fell off her tube trying to get to shore and ...
Fisheries and Oceans Canada has found that "stressful environmental conditions" likely killed hundreds of salmon and trout in the Cowichan River in mid-July. The die-off was discovered by people ...
A 56-year-old Vancouver man has drowned while tubing on the Cowichan River Monday evening. Lake Cowichan RCMP were called to the Marie Canyon area around 6:30 p.m., where they learned the man had ...
The B.C. Coroners Service is investigating after a woman in her early 50s drowned on Saturday while tubing on the Cowichan River on Vancouver Island. The woman was floating down the river near ...
Further downstream, past eerily “barren zones ... grew up in the river” as a member of Cowichan Tribes, where he now works as a natural resources expert. The mass death of the cold-water ...
A 6.4-kilometre “dead zone” has formed in the upper part of the river, said Joe Saysell ... It has set up pumps several times in the past decade. The Cowichan’s decline “is the death of 1,000 cuts,” ...