Posts by Tehillah Porter

The Miramichi Salmon Association’s 11th Annual Miramichi Salmon Classic was held from July 10th – 13th, 2016. This year we had over 17 confirmed catches. Everyone was in great spirits and ready to get out on the river each day. We wish to extend a great big thank you to everyone who participated, our generous…

The MSA’s 7th Annual First Cast occurred over the weekend of June 25th and 26th at the Salmon Museum in Doaktown. The event was a great success with many participants! See our page for pictures from the weekend. A big thank you to all who helped out!

This year’s Bruno Bobak Art Contest and Printing & Writing Contest winners can be viewed on our contest page. The overall art contest winner for 2016 was Onika Gourdine-Mundell, a kindergarten student from Harkins Elementary School. Her submission was chosen by Bruno’s son, Alex Bobak, to receive the honour. Harkins Elementary received a framed Bruno…

The MSA and ASF have completed the tagging for the 2016 smolt tracking study. The team tagged 180 smolts from May 16th – 20th on both the NW and SW branches, on top of the 60 wild fish that were tagged at the hatchery in early March of 2016. Please see our field program page…

We are pleased to inform you that Mr. Charles LeBlanc of Riverview, NB was the winner of the MSA’s raffle for the June 11th-13th, 2016 trip to Larry’s Gulch. The draw was made at the Moncton MSA Dinner, held on May 19th, 2016. We sold 500 raffle tickets, generating approx. $3,300 (net) in support of…