At Risk Status Sought for Thompson Steelhead - The Drake Magazine

British Columbia’s Thompson River steelhead have been in deep trouble since the early 1990s. Now, after decades of collapsing numbers, and with a fragile run hovering in the hundreds, anglers are petitioning local politicians to get behind the beleaguered fish and consider protecting it under Canada’s Species At Risk Act (SARA). Len Piggin, president of Kamloops…