Rivière aux Rochers 2026: Improvement does not equal recovery The RiverNotes published on September 3, 2026 by the Atlantic Salmon Federation presents the Rivière aux Rochers in an encouraging light: 216 salmon were counted, compared to 114 in 2025. https://www.asf.ca/rivernotes-september-03-2026/ Yes, 2026 is better than 2025. But when you check the reference figure, distinguish between the small salmon and the large salmon, and place this run in the historical series, the picture becomes...

And what if we now looked at what housing has actually produced? Editorial in response to the FQSA's August 2026 Science Newsletter — "What if the habitat was already here?" $17.172M | 414 km | ~9.36M UP | 11,121 potential adults When I read the latest FQSA Science News on housing, I stopped at one passage in particular. We are shown the Rimouski, the Mitis and the Madeleine. Three examples where human interventions have allowed salmon to access habitats that were previously inaccessible to...

Management Plan 2020-2028 — Analysis of the plan, its summary and the 2026 assessment In 2020, Quebec launched its first Brook Trout Management Plan 2020-2028 with a finding that should have sounded the alarm throughout the province: more than half of the brook trout populations in lakes were considered to be in a situation of overexploitation. The detailed portrait was even more disturbing. According to the diagnosis presented in the full plan, only 21% of the assessed populations were...