Everyone is invited to an evening of music, poetry, dance and speakers to honour wild salmon and to raise awareness about wild salmon. Salmon Talks Lillooet and the St'at'imc Unity Riders present: Wild Salmon Cafe.

• Saturday, March 20, 2010
• Lillooet Friendship Centre, 357 Main Street, Lillooet, BC
• 5:30pm Wild Salmon & Indian Tacos dinner by donation
• 7:00-11:00pm Entertainers and presenters
• See the link above for more information

An updated program is now available for the upcoming Speaking for the Salmon Summit on Fraser Sockeye Salmon: Understanding Stock Decline and Prospects for the Future. This meeting is a follow up to a scientists' think tank in December 2009 that considered the causes for the unusal and unexpectedly low returns for Fraser sockeye in 2009. For more information see www.sfu.ca/cstudies/science/adaptingtochange.htm.

Owing to a late placement of the notification ad, the closing date for applications for standing for the Cohen Commission has been changed to 4:00pm, March 10, 2010. The date for hearings has also been changed.  For more information, see the Cohen Commission website http://www.cohencommission.ca/.

Watershed Watch Salmon Society and the Centre for Coastal Studies at Simon Fraser University are pleased to announce that the conveners' report from the Speaking for the Salmon workshop Reconciling the conservation of wild salmon and the production of enhanced salmon under Canada's Wild Pacific Salmon Policy is now available.

The following email was received from John Slater, MLA Boundary-Similkameen Parliamentary Secretary for Water Supply and Allocation:

The Water Act Modernization Discussion Paper is now available for your review and comment.

The Discussion Paper outlines opportunities for using, sustaining and managing water resources in a changing environment and has been developed to encourage discussion on ways to modernize the Water Act.  The Discussion Paper proposes principles to underpin a modernized Water Act and presents goals, supporting objectives and possible solutions.

The paper does not present any preferred option or position. It is designed to help you prepare a response or submission and includes links and references to other information sources.

The way we manage water is everyone’s business and we invite you to share your views on the ideas and possible solutions presented in the Discussion Paper.  Submissions may be completed online, emailed to livingwatersmart@gov.bc.ca or sent to:

Water Act Modernization
Water Stewardship Division
Ministry of Environment
PO Box 9362 Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, BC, V8W 9M2

The closing date for submissions is April 30, 2010.

Over the coming months we encourage you to review our website, join the discussion about possible solutions on our blog or participate in one of our regional multi-stakeholder workshops or First Nations sessions.