Excessive road salt could be hurting juvenile salmon in Lower Mainland

[Derby]

Subject: Excessive road salt could be hurting juvenile salmon in Lower Mainland


https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/worl...n-lower-mainland/ar-AA1wS60l?ocid=socialshare

 

[Bryan Allen]

Uh huh. Ya think ????? Wonder what this Captain Obvious Moment cost the tax payers......
BTW-- I know, I know, not your fault Deryk ! Have a great year on the water.

 

[Derby]

Funny... my first thought was it took them so long to figure that out

 

[Derby]

B.C. research suggests road salt linked to death and deformities in salmon https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/52...alt-linked-to-death-and-deformities-in-salmon

 

[wildmanyeah]

There are solutions to this but no mayor is getting voted in spending millings on good catch basins

Wonder what this Captain Obvious Moment cost the tax payers

Everytime i see one of these study's, i think great you have confirmed what's been in the public domain attest since the 1970's

just file it away with the rest, recommend more study is needed and continue on

 

[agentaqua]

Streamside & roadside buffers could help quite a bit for both salt & 6PPD-Q: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00203

 

[Hardy Guy]

Maybe this is more harmful then fish farms as it impacts tons of systems; why no public protests over this? For the record I'm all for doing what we can to reasonably lower all impacts so this salt impact should be reduced as much as reasonable possible.

 

[Corey_lax]

Maybe this is more harmful then fish farms as it impacts tons of systems; why no public protests over this? For the record I'm all for doing what we can to reasonably lower all impacts so this salt impact should be reduced as much as reasonable possible.

gotta tackle one thing at a time fellah. How do you think a public protest over salt on the road will go while 90% of the people drive and put everyone at risk with their summer tires on? It’s quite a show when it snows a little bit here lol

 

[Hardy Guy]

gotta tackle one thing at a time fellah. How do you think a public protest over salt on the road will go while 90% of the people drive and put everyone at risk with their summer tires on? It’s quite a show when it snows a little bit here lol

True. A little salt is better than a bunch of cars sliding into the water ways ...

I remember salt being raised as an issue years ago. I wonder if the brine they put on the roads now, that dissolves your trick frame, is any better for fish ?