Salmon conservation groups say rare video that captures wild Atlantic salmon spawning in a brook near a proposed gold mine site in northeastern Nova Scotia should help convince governments to reject the project. The video shot last November was released today in Halifax by the Nova Scotia Salmon Association, St. Mary's River Association, and the Atlantic Salmon Federation. It shows a pair of wild Atlantic salmon preparing to spawn in McKeen Brook, a tributary of the St. Mary's River near the Cochrane Hill gold mine being proposed by Atlantic Gold, a subsidiary of Australian-owned St. Barbara. The company says the proposed mine is expected to go before a federal-provincial environmental assessment process, and that protection from any potential harm to salmon would have to be demonstrated before the mine is approved.