“In an effort to restore dwindling salmon stock, the Spruce City Wildlife Association (Facebook Page) has partnered with the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council in Prince George to use 20-year-old cryogenically frozen salmon sperm to fertilize salmon eggs”.
Christina Ciesielski, fisheries program manager for the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, said it decided to try using the salmon milt it had been storing for 20 years after having it tested for motility and discovering it was still 80 per cent viable.
Click the hyperlinks to read the full article from CBC News or to listen to the interview on CBC Radio West with Sarah Penton starting at 31:12 up until 37:16 where Ciesielski discusses how CSTC is working to save endangered salmon.
For more information or questions on CSTC’s efforts to save endangered salmon please contact the Fisheries Program Manager at (250) 562-6279