13,620 Licences, 49,458 Fishing Days, and 13,133 Salmon Counted: Where Is the Limit? Editorial on Salmon Fishing Pressure in Quebec in 2025 The 2025 Atlantic salmon report for Quebec calls for a discussion that goes far beyond the simple question of fishing success. It forces us to ask whether the way we use, manage, and promote salmon rivers is still appropriate given the current condition of the resource. For the 2025–2026 season, 13,620 salmon fishing licences were sold in Quebec: 11,486...

Subsistence fishing, recreational fishing, and Atlantic salmon: we must have the courage to talk about it Talking about subsistence fishing, recreational fishing, and Aboriginal rights in Canada is not simple. It's a sensitive subject. There's history involved. There are rights, traditions, wounds, and social and cultural realities that cannot be dismissed out of hand. But there is also another reality that we can no longer avoid: Atlantic salmon are disappearing from several of our rivers....

2024. 2025. 2026. Time is against the salmon. For the past two years, one question has been constantly recurring in my mind: how much longer does the salmon have before we finally make the necessary decisions? By 2024, many of us were already sounding the alarm. Low salmon runs, increasingly frequent heat waves, low water levels, and the effects of high temperatures on salmon survival were already well documented. Scientific studies existed. Biologists were discussing it. Anglers were...