Protecting Canada's Wild Atlantic Salmon with Charline Mccoy
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Atlantic Canada is home to some of the most storied salmon rivers in the world—and to one of the quiet powerhouses working behind the scenes to protect them. In this episode of the Wet Fly Swing Podcast, host Dave talks with Charline McCoy, executive director of the Foundation for Conservation of Atlantic Salmon (FCAS), about how a tiny team is helping safeguard Canada's wild Atlantic salmon across five provinces.
From replacing culverts and removing old dams to planting riparian trees and funding climate-focused research, Charline walks us through how FCAS has supported hundreds of conservation projects—and helped open up nearly 199 million square meters of salmon habitat. You'll also hear how warming rivers, shifting flows, and invasive species are changing the game for salmon, and why collaboration between governments, scientists, anglers, and local watershed groups has never been more important.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're heading east all the way to Atlantic Canada to hear how one small foundation is protecting one of the world's most iconic fish. |
| 0:09.8 | Our guest is Charlene McCorrey Executive Director of the Foundation for Conservation of Atlantic Salmon, |
| 0:15.3 | a group that's quietly funding hundreds of projects across five Canadian provinces. |
| 0:20.1 | By the end of this episode, you'll hear |
| 0:21.8 | how their efforts are helping open up nearly 200 million square meters of salmon habitat, what they've |
| 0:28.0 | learned about climate change and the warming of rivers, and how local groups are stepping up to |
| 0:33.3 | keep the salmon thriving. This is the Webfly Swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip, |
| 0:41.4 | and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. Charlene McCoy shares how |
| 0:46.2 | their team of three manages to support $17 million in conservation work, restoring habitat, |
| 0:51.8 | improving fish passage, removing dams, and getting kids involved |
| 0:54.8 | through their fish friends education program. |
| 0:57.6 | And we're going to be heading to Newfoundland this year to find out more and hopefully |
| 1:01.6 | catch our first Atlantic salmon. |
| 1:03.5 | If you're interested, we've got some spots available and we've got it going here. |
| 1:07.1 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:08.3 | You can check in with Charlene at salmonconservation.ca. |
| 1:12.6 | All right, let's get going. How's it going? How's it going? Pretty good. Yeah, I'm excited to |
| 1:18.4 | hear about your foundation that you're working with there. We're doing a pretty cool event right now. |
| 1:24.9 | We're doing a giveaway for a trip to Mountain Waters Resort, |
| 1:27.9 | and we got a bunch of great brands on, and I'm going to be heading there with the winner next year in June. |
| 1:33.3 | So this is pretty exciting. I've never been to your basically Newfoundland, but it's going to be an |
| 1:38.8 | opportunity to learn not only about the fishing, but about the fish and the species. And you guys are a conservation group, |
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