Marta Ulaski
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Marta Ulaski
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PhD Candidate, Salmon Watersheds Lab, Simon Fraser University
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Studying multiple stressors in Pacific salmon systems: natural resource policy, stressor-response functions, and the safe operating space
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New paper! #fishsci #bcpoli

Our study reveals that Pacific salmon in British Columbia face a fragmented policy landscape that fails to manage the combined impacts of industrial development and climate change.

Read the paper here:
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Pacific salmon suffer from a myriad of cuts, laws, and jurisdictions. Pacific salmon are facing unprecedented pressures from a multitude of stressors – all regulated under separate laws that rarely account for their combined impact. Image shows the salmon life cycle impacted by numerous human activities including mines, urban development, forest harvest, crop production, ports, aquaculture, predator control, fishing, hatchery operations, and CO2 emissions. Each activity is connected to various laws and policies across multiple jurisdictions (e.g., municipal, federal, provincial, and international). A pathway forward for managing multiple stressors: Collaborative, on-the-ground monitoring can support flexible and cautious management, enabling regional CEAs can help align decision-making with true scale of environmental and social risks, and local limits can be set by establishing legal objectives through spatial planning.
September 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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How do we recover salmon when we are "handing out band-aids with one hand and cutting up a watershed with the other"?

Great presentations and dialogues at the first BC Salmon Recovery & Resilience Conference. 📸 PSF
December 19, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Going to the 2024 BC Salmon Recovery Conference? Come check out the session, "Paths out of a world of cumulative effects". I will be talking about the problem of cumulative effects and research we're doing with the Watershed Futures Initiative!
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 PM