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Protecting and celebrating Yukon salmon

Discover the Latest Research, Workshops, Gatherings, and Insights Shaping Indigenous-Led Aquatic Restoration Across the Yukon

A group of five people in winter gear standing by a green motorized flat-bottom boat on a snow-covered riverbank. The river is calm, reflecting a line of evergreen trees on the opposite snowy bank under an overcast sky. Gear and yellow bags are packed into the boat.

Chum Salmon Spawning

Chum salmon spawning in the Teslin River.

The title 'Yukon River Salmon Organizations' is centrally featured in large blue text against a white background with stylized blue wave patterns. The text also includes the smaller sub-titles: 'Yukon First Nation Salmon Stewardship Alliance' and 'Council of Yukon First Nations', dated June 2024. Stylized line drawings of Yukon salmon swimming vertically border the top and bottom edges of the graphic.

Yukon River Salmon Organizations Chart

Have you ever wondered how many groups are involved in salmon along the Yukon River?

A group of people standing and sitting around a table covered in papers and maps during the Chum Rebuilding Workshop. Participants are engaged in discussion and collaborative planning, focused on strategies for the restoration and management of chum salmon in the Yukon River drainage.

Chum Rebuilding Workshop

Yukon First Nations and others came together to strategize rebuilding actions for Yukon River chum salmon.

An educational diagram explaining the role of genetics in salmon restoration and hatchery programs.

Salmon genetics and restoration hatcheries

In response to questions raised at our Hatchery Workshop (February 2023) and questions we frequently hear in communities we created this information handout on genetics and restoration hatcheries.

Event poster for Salmon Day 2024 hosted by YFNSSA at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, featuring traditional artwork and event details about calling the salmon back.

Salmon Day

Salmon Day was hosted on January 20, 2024 at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. The event brought together Chiefs, Elders and others from Yukon and Alaska to share knowledge, stories, and traditional practices around our connections with salmon.

Representatives from the YFNSSA Salmon Knowledge Hub attending the Canadian Mountain Network's Knowledge Sharing Summit to collaborate on mountain and salmon stewardship.

Canadian Mountain Network's Knowledge Sharing Summit

The Salmon Knowledge Hub, administered by the Council of Yukon First Nations, attended the Canadian Mountain Network’s Knowledge Sharing Summit in Parksville, September 25 to 27.

Community members and partners participating in the YFNSSA Annual Salmon Gathering workshop to discuss salmon stewardship and habitat restoration.

Salmon Workshop

In January 2023, the Yukon First Nations Salmon Stewardship Alliance, Elders and partners gathered to discuss the salmon crisis and explore whether a restoration hatchery (including instream incubation) should be considered for Yukon salmon.

Cover of the YFNSSA research pamphlet explaining how strontium isotope analysis is used to identify and protect juvenile Chinook salmon habitats in the Yukon.

Juvenile Chinook Habitat Research Using Strontium

The Yukon First Nation Salmon Stewardship Alliance partnered on research to study juvenile Chinook salmon habitat.