The discovery last week of spawning coho salmon north of Union Street is a victory for local biologists and watershed advocates who pushed more than a decade for a special culvert buried at the intersection at Sixth Avenue in 2008.
“It’s a huge success. It proves these fish passages are important and they work. We’ve opened habitat for spawners, which is rare for an urban area,” said Emily Cowles, executive director of the Takshanuk Watershed…