Alarm sounded on Atlantic salmon
Last Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2007 | 12:16 PM AT
CBC News

Wild Atlantic salmon is on the brink of extinction, according to conservationists, who say only effective federal policy backed by big bucks can save a species that was once plentiful in many Atlantic rivers.

The latest numbers made available at the annual meeting of Atlantic salmon conservationists in Halifax on Friday show 14 Nova Scotia rivers that flow into the Bay of Fundy have lost almost all of their salmon.

'If we don't do something very soon, there won't be anything left.'—Carl Purcell of the N.S. Salmon Federation

Experts have counted only 200 wild breeding adults that return from the ocean to all of these rivers.

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