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Title: Unlimited Salmon / Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 25, 2011, 10:12:11 AM
Emergency closure for winter steelhead likely on Skagit

All signs point to another emergency fishing closure for winter steelhead in the Skagit River system. The closure should be announced next month.

"The Skagit wild steelhead forecast is going to be down again, and it hasn't met the minimum escapement in quite a while," said Brett Barkdull, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist in the northern Puget Sound region. "The numbers are falling off the table again."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2017083605_outn25.html (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2017083605_outn25.html)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 25, 2011, 10:15:37 AM
The salmon came back.

After four long years of record-low numbers, the fall-run chinook salmon population surged back from the ocean this year, once again filling the Sacramento Valley's rivers on their spawning run.Hatcheries on the American River, the Feather River and Battle Creek – the region's three largest – saw the return of more than double the number of fish in 2010, and five times as many as in 2009.

Anglers, wounded by the unprecedented cancellation of fishing seasons in 2008 and 2009, are back on the water. Local salmon is back on dinner menus.

Maybe most important of all, the rivers seem to have life again.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/25/4144777/salmon-rebound-in-sacramento-valley.html#storylink=cpy (http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/25/4144777/salmon-rebound-in-sacramento-valley.html#storylink=cpy)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: jwgnc on December 25, 2011, 14:36:08 PM
Caught my only wild winter Steelhead on a fly from the Skagit.  Bald eagles watched.  It was a sight to see.  Caught my only Dolly Varden there too.  Or was it the Sauk??

Hate to see these famous old rivers having a hard time.  I feel fortunate to have fished there in the "good old days".

I'm afraid Michigan's Au Sable will go the same route.
Title: Shiny Patches in Maine’s Streambeds Are Bright Sign for Salmon!
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 27, 2011, 11:16:31 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/science/a-strong-year-for-spawning-salmon-in-maines-rivers.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=salmon&st=cse (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/science/a-strong-year-for-spawning-salmon-in-maines-rivers.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=salmon&st=cse)

QuoteErnie Atkinson waded up Old Stream on a warm fall afternoon, peering through polarized sunglasses to scan the streambed. Before long, he pointed out a place where the bottom looked different.

"You can see how the gravel is a lot cleaner right here — it kind of shines," said Mr. Atkinson, a fishery biologist with the Maine Department of Marine Resources. "O.K., we've got one, two, four redds right here."

Redds are places where spawning salmon use their tails to dig holes in the gravel, deposit their eggs and bury them. For much of the past 20 years, counting redds here was a grim task; by 2000, the population of Atlantic salmon here had fallen so low that they were declared an endangered species in eight Maine rivers.


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Title: As clear as mud: White Salmon River a polarizing subject
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 28, 2011, 08:35:20 AM
http://sportsyakima.com/2011/12/as-clear-as-mud-white-salmon-river-a-polarizing-subject/ (http://sportsyakima.com/2011/12/as-clear-as-mud-white-salmon-river-a-polarizing-subject/)

Once a steelheader's paradise, now a century's worth of silt.

That's the way anglers look at the White Salmon River, bemoaning its present condition. Fish biologists and hydrologists look at it and see a bright future.
Avid fisherman Ken Taylor can't count the number of times he's made the two-hour drive from his Selah home to the mouth of the White Salmon — the big White Salmon in angler parlance, to delineate it from the Little White Salmon five miles to the west — in pursuit of steelhead or chinook.

Two months after Condit Dam was breached, though, looking at the sediment that has filled in the river channel, Taylor thinks those days are over.





from American Rivers....

Condit Dam Removal Update (http://vimeo.com/33584271)
Title: As clear as mud: White Salmon River a polarizing subject
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on December 28, 2011, 09:42:05 AM
Thanks for the article – interesting. 

It seems likely that Taylor is not the only angler troubled.  He does use the collective "everybody knew".

Polarization appears to be the norm on most every issue.   No surprise. 

Libbee's comment "This is very typical of our 'give me what I want now' society" is noteworthy.  I wonder if we are losing our ability to discover, re-discover, adapt, adjust, and compromise, with an eye towards the future.
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 03, 2012, 09:35:43 AM
Marine Harvest ASA, the world's biggest salmon farmer, started re-catching fish that escaped from an enclosure in Nordfjord, northern Norway, after the storm Dagmar damaged nets over the Christmas holidays.

It isn't clear how many fish escaped from one enclosure, which held 139,000 salmon with an average weight of 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), the Oslo-based company said on its website today.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-02/marine-harvest-salmon-escape-after-dagmar-storm-damages-nets.html (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-02/marine-harvest-salmon-escape-after-dagmar-storm-damages-nets.html)

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Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Aka on January 03, 2012, 19:08:07 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on January 03, 2012, 09:35:43 AM
Marine Harvest ASA, the world's biggest salmon farmer, started re-catching fish that escaped from an enclosure in Nordfjord, northern Norway, after the storm Dagmar damaged nets over the Christmas holidays.

It isn't clear how many fish escaped from one enclosure, which held 139,000 salmon with an average weight of 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), the Oslo-based company said on its website today.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-02/marine-harvest-salmon-escape-after-dagmar-storm-damages-nets.html (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-02/marine-harvest-salmon-escape-after-dagmar-storm-damages-nets.html)

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My dad lives about 5 miles upstream of a fish farm (atlantic salmon) on the Huon river in Tasmania and they have almost routine escapes. I spoke with him last week and he had just gotten back from 'sport netting' (done from his sailboat) 9 fish which he plans to cold smoke.
I guess the point is that there is no way to produce farm raised salmon, or any farmed fish, without escapement. The only way to keep farmed fish from mixing with wild populations is to keep them in ponds or some type of pen like a hatchery has.
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 09, 2012, 18:05:38 PM
http://m.ctv.ca/topstories/20120108/BC-fish-farm-opponent-faces-defamation-charges-120108.html (http://m.ctv.ca/topstories/20120108/BC-fish-farm-opponent-faces-defamation-charges-120108.html)

Fish farm opponent fights defamation charges in B.C.

VANCOUVER — Don Staniford says he's never had a fist fight -- not even during his most ferocious action as a rugby player in high school or as a soccer player at university in the United Kingdom.

Change the subject to B.C.'s salmon farming industry, though, and the British-born activist with long, curly hair is more than willing to take on the world's largest salmon-farming companies in the ring of public opinion.

His outspoken criticism has earned him an appearance at the Supreme Court of B.C. on Jan. 16 where he must defend himself against allegations from Mainstream Canada, the province's second largest salmon farming company, that he defamed the organization.

The case could cost him $125,000 if he loses.
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 10, 2012, 08:35:07 AM
The president of the Atlantic Salmon Federation is meeting this week with the minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, armed with a new study to make the case for millions of dollars more in federal funding to help restore the wild Atlantic salmon fishery.

"We felt the contribution that wild Atlantic salmon — both the recreational fishery, the First Nation fishery and related tourism — was being undervalued by the federal government, and we've seen over the last 20 years death by a thousand cuts," federation president Bill Taylor said in an interview Monday.

"At a time when wild Atlantic salmon need the most help, our federal government — in this case DFO — their budget for doing their job is at the lowest point ever."

Taylor said Fisheries and Oceans Canada's budget for its salmon work has been halved, to about $12 million. The federation wants funding doubled, restored to what it calls the mid-80s level of $25 million annually.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/50418-federation-wild-atlantic-salmon-stock-needs-help (http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/50418-federation-wild-atlantic-salmon-stock-needs-help)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 11, 2012, 09:14:55 AM
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111219152508.htm (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111219152508.htm)

Hatcheries Change Salmon Genetics After a Single Generation

ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2011) — The impact of hatcheries on salmonids is so profound that in just one generation traits are selected that allow fish to survive and prosper in the hatchery environment, at the cost of their ability to thrive and reproduce in a wild environment.

The findings, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show a speed of evolution and natural selection that surprised researchers.
They confirmed that a primary impact of hatcheries is a change in fish genetics, as opposed to a temporary environmental effect.
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 12, 2012, 22:50:46 PM
'Salmon Hero'

The salmon that come to spawn in local waters have probably considered him one for years, but local conservationist Elmer Rudolph has now been given the title of "Salmon Hero" by his peers.

Rudolph, who is also the Sapperton Fish and Game Club president, was bestowed the title by the Pacific Salmon Foundation and Fraser Basin Council last month after decades of work in restoring the Brunette River to a habitable waterway for salmon.

"It' feels good," said the ever-deferential Rudolph, "But as I mentioned when I got it... as far as I'm concerned, all I've been doing is just carrying on the work that the earlier members of the club started way back in 1970."



Read more: http://www.royalcityrecord.com/Westminster+named+Salmon+Hero/5986556/story.html#ixzz1jJ56lOJM (http://www.royalcityrecord.com/Westminster+named+Salmon+Hero/5986556/story.html#ixzz1jJ56lOJM)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 15, 2012, 12:11:21 PM
A new federal report says it will cost as much as $2.1 billion to restore the endangered steelhead trout to Southern California rivers and streams over the next 100 years.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/13/state/n201651S75.DTL#ixzz1jY0lCIdv (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/13/state/n201651S75.DTL#ixzz1jY0lCIdv)

Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 02, 2012, 09:31:03 AM
By now, everyone should be aware Chinook salmon are slated to be reintroduced to the San Joaquin, perhaps as soon as this year. And like in other California rivers where salmon have been re-established after a long absence, those fish will either be off limits to anglers or strictly catch and release.

But what seems to be lost in all of this, even though it's spelled out in the Draft Environmental Impact Report, is that the presence of salmon will also mean the end of all trout fishing and, potentially, bass fishing.

No more trout fishing in the San Joaquin? It says so right in Section 3.3 of Chapter 21, which quotes California Fish and Game Commission policy: "Domesticated or nonnative fish species will not be planted, or fisheries based on them will not be developed or maintained, in drainages of salmon waters, where ... they may adversely affect native salmon populations by competing with, preying upon or hybridizing with them."

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/01/2706427/salmon-comes-at-a-cost.html#storylink=cpy (http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/01/2706427/salmon-comes-at-a-cost.html#storylink=cpy)
Title: ACTION ALERT! SEND A MESSAGE! Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 10, 2012, 09:32:53 AM
https://secure3.convio.net/sows/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=577&autologin=true

Fill it out, send it in! Protect Wild Salmon!
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 29, 2012, 09:35:59 AM
Talk to a fisherman on the West Coast and he'll give you a hard-luck story.  The once-glorious salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest are mostly shadows of what they once were, some threatened with outright extinction, and few rivers have had as many troubles as the Klamath, as it runs from southern Oregon into Northern California.

Once the third-most productive salmon river system in the U.S., the Klamath last year saw only about 233,000 fall chinook — the big, meaty salmon prized by fishermen — headed back to spawn.  In 2008, the number was only 68,000.

That's why it was stunning news Tuesday in Newport, Ore., when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife presented its annual forecast for the Klamath's fall chinook run. Nearly 1.6 million fish are expected to be in this year's run, a figure that's nearly triple anything on the charts that go back to 1996.

The monster run, if it plays out as predicted, could provide a welcome bonanza for the troubled commercial fishing industry in California and Oregon and for the dozens of communities along the river that host sport fishermen when there's anything in the river to catch. Conservationists say it also vindicates years of efforts to maintain healthy water flows and better habitat for fish that have battled both drought and hydropower dams for decades.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-klamath-salmon-20120228,0,3391889.story (http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-klamath-salmon-20120228,0,3391889.story)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: fishhunterphil on February 29, 2012, 20:55:17 PM
Some steelhead I spotted and was blessed enough to get photos of in San Luis Obispo creek, CA.

The winter has been 70% drier than normal so far below the SF Bay.  Hopefully a big storm comes to light up the rivers and bring in more fish.
It is amazing any steel came into this creek at all with the low flows, but it is also the reason that they could be captured by my camera.

This creek runs right through town; I took these shots after I saw a friend of mine who is a steelhead restoration specialist with the DFG peering over a bridge right downtown.  Pulled over real quick and flipped out.  These fish are in the 26" range, and there is a 5th jack size fish of maybe 18" that you can't see because it is in the shadows.  It is amazing the results of a little stream stewardship; not long ago this creek had almost zero trout and was an open sewage ditch.

Anyway, thought you boys back in The South would appreciate me sharing.

Cheers
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 01, 2012, 10:39:50 AM
nice grab on those steelies, I'm sure that's a rare treat.
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: phlyfisher on March 01, 2012, 11:07:41 AM
Quote from: fishhunterphil on February 29, 2012, 20:55:17 PM
Some steelhead I spotted and was blessed enough to get photos of in San Luis Obispo creek, CA.

The winter has been 70% drier than normal so far below the SF Bay.  Hopefully a big storm comes to light up the rivers and bring in more fish.
It is amazing any steel came into this creek at all with the low flows, but it is also the reason that they could be captured by my camera.

This creek runs right through town; I took these shots after I saw a friend of mine who is a steelhead restoration specialist with the DFG peering over a bridge right downtown.  Pulled over real quick and flipped out.  These fish are in the 26" range, and there is a 5th jack size fish of maybe 18" that you can't see because it is in the shadows.  It is amazing the results of a little stream stewardship; not long ago this creek had almost zero trout and was an open sewage ditch.

Anyway, thought you boys back in The South would appreciate me sharing.

Cheers


i used to live in marin.... how have the salmon runs up at mt.Tam been? i used to hike up there as a pube and see 100's of them in that little creek that runs right next to the welcome center. lord i wanted to grab a rod and yank one of those piggy fackers out.
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 07, 2012, 15:34:10 PM
http://www.alternet.org/water/154454/scary_facts_you_should_know_about_the_nearly-bankrupt_company_pushing_ge_salmon_on_consumers?page=entire (http://www.alternet.org/water/154454/scary_facts_you_should_know_about_the_nearly-bankrupt_company_pushing_ge_salmon_on_consumers?page=entire)

The world doesn't need GE Salmon!
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: fishhunterphil on March 26, 2012, 20:47:33 PM
Quote from: phlyfisher on March 01, 2012, 11:07:41 AM
Quote from: fishhunterphil on February 29, 2012, 20:55:17 PM
Some steelhead I spotted and was blessed enough to get photos of in San Luis Obispo creek, CA.

The winter has been 70% drier than normal so far below the SF Bay.  Hopefully a big storm comes to light up the rivers and bring in more fish.
It is amazing any steel came into this creek at all with the low flows, but it is also the reason that they could be captured by my camera.

This creek runs right through town; I took these shots after I saw a friend of mine who is a steelhead restoration specialist with the DFG peering over a bridge right downtown.  Pulled over real quick and flipped out.  These fish are in the 26" range, and there is a 5th jack size fish of maybe 18" that you can't see because it is in the shadows.  It is amazing the results of a little stream stewardship; not long ago this creek had almost zero trout and was an open sewage ditch.

Anyway, thought you boys back in The South would appreciate me sharing.

Cheers


i used to live in marin.... how have the salmon runs up at mt.Tam been? i used to hike up there as a pube and see 100's of them in that little creek that runs right next to the welcome center. lord i wanted to grab a rod and yank one of those piggy fackers out.

Not sure about it, but I did hear that the biologists are predicting a mega onslaught of salmon this year (compared to recent numbers which were so low they shut down the fishery)

I know what you mean about wanting to just jump in get after em'....there is something primal when you see a fish that size and it's no wonder so much overfishing has occurred in the history of mankind
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: snagaluffaguss on April 26, 2012, 22:01:13 PM
http://www.prx.org/pieces/4219-dying-for-water-indians-politics-and-dead-fish/floating_piece (http://www.prx.org/pieces/4219-dying-for-water-indians-politics-and-dead-fish/floating_piece)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: snagaluffaguss on April 26, 2012, 22:02:37 PM
http://www.prx.org/pieces/5250-salmonlands/floating_piece (http://www.prx.org/pieces/5250-salmonlands/floating_piece)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 11, 2012, 14:55:59 PM
Atlantic Salmon Need Some Love Too!

Bringing the damn dam down!

INDIAN ISLAND —  Work crews today began demolition of the Great Works Dam on the Penobscot River, the largest-ever river restoration project in eastern North America.

Ken Salazar, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, said the $62 million project, which includes the removal of two dams and improved fish passages at two other dams, is a model for other restoration efforts in the nation because of its collaborative approach.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Dam-removal-on-Penobscot-starts-today.html (http://www.pressherald.com/news/Dam-removal-on-Penobscot-starts-today.html)

Video Report at above link!


Project Overview Below
http://youtu.be/EigUpRiKdTU (http://youtu.be/EigUpRiKdTU)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 14, 2012, 09:11:48 AM
http://youtu.be/Xy9N1rGAvwI (http://youtu.be/Xy9N1rGAvwI)

Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 16, 2012, 08:18:37 AM
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-trout-success-20120715,0,595732.story (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-trout-success-20120715,0,595732.story)

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — When it comes to disappearing species and humanity's harmful imprints on nature, hardly anybody expects anything to go right. People move in, engineers build, wildlife dies: It's an old story.

Perhaps that's why two biologists wading through a tributary of the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula not long ago were chortling and grabbing for their cellphones. The cause for celebration: a gray speckled trout hovering powerfully in the fast-running stream. The 35-inch fish was probably the first wild steelhead to find its way up the middle reaches of the river in 100 years.

/'/ /'/ /'/
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: snagaluffaguss on July 18, 2012, 07:33:26 AM
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/alaska-gold/ (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/alaska-gold/)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 27, 2012, 11:09:41 AM
Gvmn't releases FrankenFish Study...

http://www.livescience.com/25799-frankenfish-salmon-gmo.html (http://www.livescience.com/25799-frankenfish-salmon-gmo.html)

Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 07, 2013, 18:47:20 PM
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21345259 (http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21345259)

Magnetic  salmon ???
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 13, 2013, 19:48:03 PM
Salmon Farms spread deadly salmon diseases

Salmon Confidential on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/61301410)

eat wild salmon
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: sanjuanwormhatch on March 19, 2013, 06:22:20 AM
Quote"This contradictory use of the Wardrop Report is extremely concerning as it is unclear whether Northern Dynasty Minerals is misleading investors by attracting investment for a 'fantasy proposal' or it is intentionally providing fraudulent testimony to the EPA. I urge you to investigate this matter immediately. Due to the importance of this issue to Washington state and the Pacific Northwest, I would greatly appreciate being informed about all developments on this matter."

http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=f1578a83-f5c5-4557-9af2-e996a01b2ab4 (http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=f1578a83-f5c5-4557-9af2-e996a01b2ab4)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 29, 2013, 11:31:20 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22694239 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22694239)


GM Salmon can breed with wild fish!
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Darthmonkey on May 29, 2013, 19:14:35 PM
http://www.sportsmenforwildolympics.org/sign-the-petition/ (http://www.sportsmenforwildolympics.org/sign-the-petition/)
Holy Fuck Knuckles batman! It is a step in the right direction. If you've ever been here, you know Wild & Scenic is barely fitting of this place. Deserving of our greatest efforts to protect and preserve for future generations to enjoy.
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 26, 2013, 20:25:33 PM
A Haven for Salmon, and for Salmon Fishers


MURMANSK, Russia — My fly skittered across the current in front of our jet boat on the Lower Tomba beat of Russia's Ponoi River, darting erratically as the tension on my line increased. Suddenly, there was a violent splash, and I felt a significant tug. Then nothing.

Don't give the fish any line and don't yank the rod back," said Max Mamaev, the head guide at the Ponoi River Company. "When you feel the weight of the fish, lift gently."

I cast again toward the birch-blanketed bank as two peregrine falcons mobbed a white-tailed sea eagle in the sky above. As the fly accelerated below the boat, a fish rose and missed the fly. Then there was a second swirl, and the line came tight. I lifted slowly and was fast to my 10th Atlantic salmon of the day.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/sports/a-haven-for-salmon-and-for-salmon-fishers.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/sports/a-haven-for-salmon-and-for-salmon-fishers.html?_r=0)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 28, 2013, 20:59:10 PM
Some more Salmon news...

No Chinook fishing season on upper Salmon River!

KETCHUM, Idaho -- Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials say a decade-low return of Chinook salmon to the state means there will be no Chinook fishing season on the upper Salmon River.

The Idaho Mountain Express reports the season usually begins about the third week in June and runs until about mid-July.

Columbia Basin Research at the University of Washington found that just under 38,000 Chinook salmon passed through Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River through Wednesday. The 10-year average is just over 60,000 fish, marking a 37 percent decline

http://www.ktvb.com/news/No-Chinook-fishing-season-on-upper-Salmon-River-213542911.html (http://www.ktvb.com/news/No-Chinook-fishing-season-on-upper-Salmon-River-213542911.html)

Drought conditions threaten Sacramento River salmon

In a sign of growing drought in California, state officials recently took the unusual step of loosening environmental water quality rules in hopes of protecting salmon in the Sacramento River.

The move illustrates how drought forces difficult trade-offs in modern-day California, where water supplies are stretched to the limit even in normal years.

The problem is that Shasta Lake, the largest in the state, risks running out of cold water before salmon migrate upriver from the ocean for their fall and winter spawning runs. If that were to happen, the salmon population, which has rebounded strongly from several years of sharp declines, could face lethal warm temperatures in the river.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/27/5527560/drought-conditions-threaten-sacramento.html#storylink=cpy (http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/27/5527560/drought-conditions-threaten-sacramento.html#storylink=cpy)
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Beetle on June 28, 2013, 21:17:26 PM
My friend Ted sent this picture today from CO.    Crazy
Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 07, 2013, 15:52:31 PM
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/07/07/opinion/contributors/protect-wild-atlantic-salmon-runs/?ref=OpinionBox

Greenland over harvesting Atlantic Salmon!



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Title: Re: Unlimited Salmon/Steelhead News Update...
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 22, 2013, 11:47:30 AM
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/2013/07/21/veazie-dam-removal-brings-hope-salmon-anglers/pkkYtc6CeHeA2DiNaerZtJ/singlepage.html (http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/2013/07/21/veazie-dam-removal-brings-hope-salmon-anglers/pkkYtc6CeHeA2DiNaerZtJ/singlepage.html)

VEAZIE, Maine (AP) — Eighty-five-year-old Claude Westfall points to a photograph on the wall of the Veazie Salmon Club. In the 1992 photo, a smiling Westfall presents then-President George H. W. Bush with his prize: the first salmon pulled from the Penobscot River in the Bangor area that year.

For nearly 80 years, the first salmon of the season was delivered by train, and later plane, to the White House. But Bush would be the last to receive the famous fish.

The number of salmon on the Penobscot River dwindled, halting fishing on Maine's largest river and the presidential salmon tradition.

But environmentalists say removing the Veazie Dam — which will begin Monday — could be a monumental step toward restoring the salmon population and resurrecting a rich history of angling on the Penobscot River.


http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/36212695 (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/36212695)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 20, 2013, 10:37:08 AM
Pink salmon, Puget Sound's smallest, most short-lived and most abundant of five native salmon species, are returning in record numbers to the Nisqually River.

There are so many of these 3- to 7-pound fish stacking up in the river, it conjures up the old saying: "They're so thick, you could walk across the river on their backs."

They aren't quite that thick, but they are pulsing upstream to spawn in numbers that boggle the mind. More than 700,000 pinks are expected to enter the river this year out of an estimated Puget Sound run size of 6.2 million fish.

Flash back 10 years and tribal biologists were hard-pressed to find pink salmon in the river at all.

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/09/19/2730648/pink-salmon-return-to-nisqually.html#storylink=cpy (http://www.theolympian.com/2013/09/19/2730648/pink-salmon-return-to-nisqually.html#storylink=cpy)


In other news:

A project to improve salmon spawning habitat in the American River has some kayakers and rafters concerned that they may lose a favorite area of rapids.

The project, which started Sept. 3, involves using bulldozers to place 6,000 tons of large gravel cobbles in the riverbed near River Bend Park and Arden Way. The gravel is needed to create spawning habitat for wild chinook salmon, which make nests for their eggs in the rocks.

The work is occurring directly downstream from the parkway pedestrian bridge between River Bend Park and William Pond Recreation Area. This stretch of river includes the Arden rapids, an area favored by kayakers and rafters.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/18/5745632/salmon-restoration-in-american.html#storylink=cpy (http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/18/5745632/salmon-restoration-in-american.html#storylink=cpy)
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Post by: Al on September 20, 2013, 11:08:31 AM
I am heading for Upstate NY (Pulaski) Sunday morning - should be shouting FISHON shortly after noon. ;D 

Hopefully will get some photos and post a report when I return on Friday. May try to do a little update while there if I can figure out how to post photos directly from my dumbphone :embarassed:.

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Post by: Aka on November 24, 2013, 21:05:01 PM
Update on the recovery of the Elwha in Washington state which was the site of the largest dam removal project so far in the U.S.

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2012/07/07_20_2012_elwha_restoration_video.html (http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2012/07/07_20_2012_elwha_restoration_video.html)


Pretty damn cool!!!
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Post by: sanjuanwormhatch on January 20, 2014, 06:07:51 AM
New arrow in the quiver for the fight against hatchery fish:

http://midcurrent.com/2014/01/20/victory-for-wild-fish-on-the-sandy-river/ (http://midcurrent.com/2014/01/20/victory-for-wild-fish-on-the-sandy-river/)
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Post by: Transylwader on January 21, 2014, 14:16:58 PM
I did Erie in 2012. What a shitfucksnadwich. Combat fishing, morons from all over center pinning with anal beads. I saw a few kings who were locked out of Trout Run along with thousands of steelhead. I shan't engage in that shit show ever again... and they be pelletheads, the lot of em...
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Post by: tomato can on January 21, 2014, 15:15:50 PM
Now now, Tranny, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.  Yes Erie can be a pig pile but there are plenty of stretches that you can get away from the mindless horde.  I need to get up there myself, got plenty of friends up there to see & fish with. 
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 30, 2014, 13:50:41 PM
Mobile Web - News - Biologists identify pot gardens as salmon threat
http://www.denverpost.com/marijuana/ci_26634339/biologists-identify-pot-gardens-salmon-threat
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 23, 2014, 23:23:42 PM
Salmon ads full of crap

http://commonsensecanadian.ca/salmon-farmers-ads-full-crap-seabed-beneath-pens/
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Post by: Aka on December 24, 2014, 07:50:10 AM
Assholes, Canadian assholes.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 04, 2015, 10:47:19 AM
Storm runoff can be toxic to aquatic life, but a new study suggests a simple and relatively inexpensive solution: Filter the water through dirt before it enters streams, rivers or the ocean.

Researchers collected runoff from a busy four-lane highway in Seattle during six storms in 2011 and 2012. They tested the toxicity of water from the first five storms and found that coho salmon fry could not survive in it, nor could the mayfly and water flea larvae they feed on.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/science/cleaning-up-water-by-running-it-through-dirt.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/science/cleaning-up-water-by-running-it-through-dirt.html)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 23, 2015, 03:04:15 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31988139

Danube River Salmon
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Post by: sanjuanwormhatch on June 10, 2015, 09:14:13 AM
Hey steelhead experts, is there even a remote possibility I'll see a steelhead OP mid to late sept?
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Post by: Aka on June 10, 2015, 10:22:06 AM
Quote from: sanjuanwormhatch on June 10, 2015, 09:14:13 AM
Hey steelhead experts, is there even a remote possibility I'll see a steelhead OP mid to late sept?

Southeast and south central AK steelies will be in then.
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Post by: Aka on June 10, 2015, 12:25:43 PM
On the subject of steelhead I saw this a few days ago. It's pretty cool.


https://youtu.be/eR0WzInZzS0
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 19, 2015, 10:02:11 AM
Looks like there're here to stay with a $5 Billion per year business, but at least there is now some awareness of the ecodamage caused by massive off shore fish farming...

http://nyti.ms/1T7gXUJ (http://nyti.ms/1T7gXUJ)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 19, 2015, 10:04:39 AM
Will California steelhead / salmon go extinct this year? Drought causes dire straights for Coho and Steelhead in the Russian River watershed.

SONOMA, Calif. — California is taking desperate steps to save the last endangered salmon in Wine Country creeks that are going dry because of over-pumping and the drought, officials said Thursday.

Water has run so low in the four tributaries of the Russian River in Sonoma County that state workers have been dispatched with nets and buckets to rescue the last surviving coho salmon.

Threatened steelhead trout are also being pulled from drying stretches of the waterways.

In addition, the state Water Resources Control Board next week will consider ordering world-class wineries and thousands of other landowners along those creeks to stop all watering of lawns and to start monitoring how much water they are using.

"Fish rescue is an emergency-room action. It's not a solution," said Andrew Hughan, spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. "The solution is water in the creek."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/11/us/ap-us-california-drought-salmon.html (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/11/us/ap-us-california-drought-salmon.html)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 19, 2015, 10:15:47 AM
Feds Release Plan for Recovering Northwest Fish Species

BOISE, Idaho — Federal authorities have released their final recovery plan for a fish species that teetered on the brink of extinction in the early 1990s in one of the Pacific Northwest's major rivers.

The plan released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will create a self-sustaining population of Snake River sockeye salmon over the next 50 to 100 years, authorities said.

The run in 1991 was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, kicking off a hatchery program that at first had only a handful of returning fish to propagate the species.

But last fall more sockeye, some 1,500 fish, made the 900-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to central Idaho's Redfish Lake than in any year going back nearly six decades.

"I think this really does show the resiliency of the species," said Rosemary Furfey, the agency's salmon recovery coordinator for the Interior Columbia Basin.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/08/us/ap-us-sockeye-salmon-recovery.html (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/08/us/ap-us-sockeye-salmon-recovery.html)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 24, 2015, 20:45:29 PM
I found the following story on the NPR iPhone App

Genetically Modified Salmon: Coming To A River Near You?
by Jessie Rack

NPR - June 24, 2015

While the debate over whether to label foods containing GMO ingredients plays out across the country, another engineered food has long been waiting to hit grocery stores: genetically modified salmon....

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/24/413755699/genetically-modified-salmon-coming-to-a-river-near-you?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

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Post by: revfox on June 25, 2015, 06:57:56 AM

"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."

Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Novel)

But...I wonder if they can make it so farm raised fish don't taste like shit.
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Post by: Aka on June 25, 2015, 08:11:14 AM
Fuck farm raised seafood.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 20, 2015, 10:22:52 AM
WEST COAST

Invest now in Washington's coastal salmon runs!

QuoteAt the most extreme, witness the monumental public price tag between 1991 and 2012 for ensuring a round trip for endangered sockeye from the upper reaches of the Snake River, through the gantlet of Columbia River dams and reservoirs, out to the ocean and then back again: almost $9,000 per fish.

http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/invest-now-in-washingtons-coastal-salmon-runs/ (http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/invest-now-in-washingtons-coastal-salmon-runs/)

EAST COAST

Hundreds of salmon trapped by construction project in N.L. river

QuoteCOLINET, N.L. -- The Atlantic Salmon Federation says a construction project has trapped hundreds of wild Atlantic salmon in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The federation says construction of a fishway in Rocky River near Colinet is preventing at least 450 salmon from moving upriver to spawn.

Federation member Don Ivany says a plan to move the salmon should have been in place before construction started on the fishway earlier this summer
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/hundreds-of-salmon-trapped-by-construction-project-in-n-l-river-1.2525478 (http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/hundreds-of-salmon-trapped-by-construction-project-in-n-l-river-1.2525478)
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Post by: BRFFF on September 28, 2015, 23:13:07 PM
http://www.pressherald.com/2015/09/27/a-river-revived-the-penobscot-river-two-years-after-dams-removal/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 19, 2015, 10:12:43 AM
GMO salmon approved by FDA for human consumption

http://nyti.ms/1O5tEOF
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Post by: Aka on November 23, 2015, 20:56:44 PM
One of the coolest videos I've seen. This is lake iliamna where the sockeye salmon from the Kvichak River that makes up a large part the Bristol bay salmon totals go to spawn. This is also  in the area where northern dynasty wants to put the pebble mine project.

https://vimeo.com/146049113
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 23, 2015, 21:26:47 PM
Pretty darn amazing !
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Post by: Dougfish on November 24, 2015, 08:40:19 AM
That is beautiful and powerful. All of our legislators should be required to sit and watch it.
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Post by: sanjuanwormhatch on November 24, 2015, 08:50:12 AM
Def going to be watching that.

I'm reading a book about the salmon fishing rights of the nez perces, yakima, and one other tribe in wa and the "fishing in's" of the 1960s.  It's pretty interesting stuff and I'm pretty sure some very similar arguments if not the same that lead to litigation and subsequent dam destruction of the elwha.  I'll have to look into it though.
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Post by: Aka on November 24, 2015, 15:44:32 PM

Quote from: sanjuanwormhatch on November 24, 2015, 08:50:12 AM
Def going to be watching that.

I'm reading a book about the salmon fishing rights of the nez perces, yakima, and one other tribe in wa and the "fishing in's" of the 1960s.  It's pretty interesting stuff and I'm pretty sure some very similar arguments if not the same that lead to litigation and subsequent dam destruction of the elwha.  I'll have to look into it though.

What's the book and do you like it so far?
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Post by: Aka on November 24, 2015, 16:48:03 PM
^^^ we hear your cries for attention. Daddy issues?
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Post by: Michael Toris on November 24, 2015, 17:13:56 PM
Well that was fucking bad ass Aaron
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Post by: sanjuanwormhatch on November 25, 2015, 09:21:46 AM
Spirit of Crazy Horse.

It actually has very little to do with salmon and steelhead but is great so far none the less. 
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 11, 2015, 18:31:44 PM
Cool news from the OP

No bait, no barb, no kill

http://wildsteelheadcoalition.org/2015/12/huge-victory-for-wild-steelhead/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 18, 2015, 05:25:15 AM
Hope this ends up making GMO salmon unsalable!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/12/17/congress-to-fda-no-genetically-engineered-salmon-in-supermarkets-unless-it-is-labeled/
Congress to FDA: No genetically engineered salmon in supermarkets until there's a plan to label
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Post by: Yallerhammer on December 18, 2015, 07:53:18 AM
Quote from: sanjuanwormhatch on November 25, 2015, 09:21:46 AM
Spirit of Crazy Horse.

It actually has very little to do with salmon and steelhead but is great so far none the less.

Excellent book, I have a copy on my shelf. It will make you think.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 22, 2015, 06:27:18 AM
This is cool!



http://www.fishingnortheast.net/connecticut-local-fishing-news/first-documented-wild-spawning-of-atlantic-salmon-in-connecticut-since-the-late-1700s/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 26, 2015, 22:11:49 PM
Russian River steelhead news

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4962232-181/flowing-again-russian-rivers-creeks?artslide=0
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 16, 2016, 07:47:28 AM
To Save Its Salmon, California
Calls In the Fish Matchmaker
At a hatchery on the Klamath River, biologists are using genetic techniques
to reduce inbreeding, though some argue natural methods are more effective.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/science/new-tactics-to-save-californias-decimated-salmon-population.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 26, 2016, 21:23:03 PM
http://venturingangler.com/2016/01/21/film-the-plight-of-smith-river-steelhead-in-eternally-wild/

CalTrout and strip mines on the Smith River -- pretty amazing video -- worth a look
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 26, 2016, 22:00:59 PM
And another thing, from the front page of the drake

http://www.drakemag.com/featured-content/daily-drake/1550-fight-for-salmon-and-trout-preservation-in-alaskas-tongass-national-forest.html

Click, read, post comment,

http://www.americansalmonforest.org/take-action.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 22, 2016, 11:09:49 AM
CT River salmon comeback? Maybe not!

http://www.valleyadvocate.com/2016/03/29/so-long-salmon/ (http://www.valleyadvocate.com/2016/03/29/so-long-salmon/)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 27, 2016, 10:02:43 AM
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/26/a-pacific-salmon-hub-is-under-threat/ (http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/26/a-pacific-salmon-hub-is-under-threat/)

More threats to Salmon in BC

QuoteThe Skeena River snakes out of fir-lined fjords on the misty northern coast of British Columbia, and washes over a thousand-acre sandbar. Flora Bank is a biological bottleneck over which millions of finger-length young salmon enter the sea each spring. Scientist Allen Gottesfeld calls Flora Bank the "Grand Central Station" for the watershed. All streams in the Skeena system lead here.

One of the last great undammed salmon systems in Canada, the Skeena still supports five Pacific salmon species. It has yielded some of the biggest Chinook and steelhead ever recorded. Its fish feed indigenous First Nations, and supply sport and commercial fisheries up and down the British Columbian and Alaskan coasts. And Skeena help underpin the food chain for the world-renowned Great Bear rainforest, a 250-mile long archipelago of islands and coastal enclaves populated by white "spirit bears," supersized bald eagles, and healthy pods of orcas. That all makes Flora Bank one of the most important stretches of salmon habitat on the West Coast.

And yet Canada's Trudeau administration is now conidering granting permission to a conglomerate of Asian state oil companies to build an $11.4 billion liquefied natural gas cooling and export terminal over Flora Bank. One of the most threatening components in the project is a Golden Gate-sized bridge that would be built over the bar to carry processed gas from neighboring Lelu Island out to waiting ships. Scientific studies suggest the enormous towers for the bridge could permanently alter the countervailing forces of tides, wind, and river current that have created and sustained Flora Bank for thousands of years. The heavy dredging, drilling and blasting during the bridge and terminal's construction threaten enormous impact
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 01, 2016, 12:51:16 PM
https://youtu.be/FxaXWucLheI

pretty damn amazing....y;
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 02, 2016, 20:00:11 PM
QuoteHayden Stratton knelt beside Bond Brook Monday to watch the half-dozen tiny Atlantic salmon alevin he had just carefully poured into the water from a plastic cup begin their new life in the wild.

"They didn't go too far," Stratton said of the small visible salmon in orange yolk sacks. "They're just chilling, dude."

The fish will chill in Bond Brook for about two years, struggling for life as they learn to eat and hide from predators. If successful in those two things, they will grow to reach their fry stage, then parr stage, and then smolt stage before slowly making their way out to sea.

They'll spend about a year heading down the Kennebec River, acclimating to the changing conditions along the way, said Peter Kallin, of Rome, president of the Maine Lakes Society. Kallin accompanied about 35 students from Messalonskee High School in Oakland as part of teacher Colin Hickey's "Topics in Non-Fiction: Hunting and Fishing" class field trip. Each student placed some of the roughly half-inch long, endangered Atlantic salmon in the brook in hopes of helping restore their population.


http://www.pressherald.com/2016/05/02/students-help-salmon-make-run-at-survival/ (http://www.pressherald.com/2016/05/02/students-help-salmon-make-run-at-survival/)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 05, 2016, 13:18:15 PM
Hope this news brings down a damn dam or four! p;- on dams


Judge: Salmon recovery requires big dam changes (http://www.dailyastorian.com/Free/20160505/judge-salmon-recovery-requires-big-dam-changes)

QuoteA massive habitat restoration effort by the U.S. government doesn't do nearly enough to improve Northwest salmon runs, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, handing a major victory to conservationists, anglers and others who hope to someday see four dams on the Snake River breached to make way for the fish.

In a long-running lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon in Portland rejected the federal government's latest plan for offsetting the damage that dams in the Columbia River Basin pose to salmon, saying it violates the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

It was the fifth time since 2001 that the court has invalidated the government's plans, and rulings in the case show increasing impatience with federal agencies, including NOAA Fisheries, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. In his 149-page opinion, Simon found that for the past 20 years, the agencies have focused on trying to revive the basin's 13 endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead runs by restoring habitat without compromising the generation of electricity.





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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 26, 2016, 10:16:21 AM
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife officials say tribal fishery managers and the state are in the final stages of reaching an agreement in the stalemate over salmon fishing. A deal could be finalized at any moment.
Salmon fishing could reopen in a couple weeks, but the agreement must first be approved by NOAA.

http://www.king5.com/mb/tech/science/environment/state-tribes-reach-agreement-over-salmon-fishing/215019034


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 26, 2016, 10:28:09 AM
What's the future for Great Lakes salmon?

PENTWATER - Shortly after noon on a cool sunny Thursday, the 33-foot charter boat Sportsmen came back into the Pentwater village marina carrying four happy fishermen and coolers full of still-flopping fish.
Most of their catch were plump, pink-tinged lake trout, pale bellies glistening in the bright May sun.

Read the rest at

http://www.wzzm13.com/mb/news/local/lakeshore/whats-the-future-for-great-lakes-salmon/215883550


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 29, 2016, 10:32:12 AM
STEAMBOAT — A backcountry advocacy group plans to jump-start a stalled campaign to protect a 104,000-acre chunk of the North Umpqua River Basin for wild steelhead and name it after one of the fish's most ardent and iconic defenders.

The group Backcountry Hunters and Anglers plans to launch a statewide grassroots campaign to see the Frank Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary east of Roseburg become a reality.

The sanctuary and the Congressional bill seeking to designate it are in the name of Moore, a storied North Umpqua fly-fisher and nationally recognized conservationist whose wild steelhead advocacy dates back to the early 1950s in the basin and continues today.

http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20160528/NEWS/160529551
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 31, 2016, 18:02:29 PM
Cool story!

Salmon Ceremony: First Chinook Return to Chief Joseph Hatchery http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/05/31/salmon-ceremony-first-chinook-return-chief-joseph-hatchery-164614#.V04XtBLkKyQ.twitter via @IndianCountry



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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 01, 2016, 10:15:37 AM
Will Deacy, a UM systems ecology graduate student under the direction of UM Professor Jack Stanford, researched brown bears on Kodiak Island, Alaska, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Brown bears are faced with a challenge: They need to consume lots of salmon each year, but salmon only are available for a few weeks in each shallow spawning ground. However, salmon spawn at different times in different habitats, which could allow bears to eat salmon for long periods of time if they move to different spawning grounds. GPS collars allowed Deacy to observe where and when bears foraged for salmon.

"We found that the bears greatly extend their use of the salmon resource by migrating from one run to another," Stanford said. "We call this 'surfing the salmon red wave.'"


http://phys.org/news/2016-06-kodiak-track-salmon-alaska.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 06, 2016, 21:37:55 PM
Dam Removal, Salmon and Birds... a little podcast....

In 2014, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, the dams on the Elwha River were removed. It was the largest removal of its kind in history. As the river ran free again, salmon from the Pacific were able to spawn upstream for the first time in 100 years.


http://www.audubon.org/news/the-amazing-difference-found-dippers-elwha-river
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 08, 2016, 11:05:01 AM
Before Friant Dam was built in the 1940s to store water for farms and cities across Central California, Chinook Salmon called the San Joaquin River home. The infrastructure project severely slowed flows on the river and the salmon went extinct. Now more than sixty years later salmon are slowly being reintroduced into the river, but some people say it's just too late for the fish to thrive again here. Their reasoning?  Climate change


http://kvpr.org/post/could-climate-change-halt-salmon-restoration-san-joaquin-river-farmers-say-yes
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 08, 2016, 11:18:44 AM
Steelhead News too :o Damn Dam removal... 0:0

CARMEL VALLEY, Calif. -

From a "river in ruin" to a "river in renewal," there's a lot of history at the former site of the San Clemente Dam. Monday marked another historic moment; for the first time, the many people and organizations involved in the removal of the dam came together to celebrate the progress of a monumental riparian habitat restoration

In 1999, the Carmel River was regarded as the most endangered river in the United States due to the dam. Declared seismically unsafe by the California Department of Water Resources Division of Safety of Dams after a buildup of sediment, the dam also impeded the passage of the anadromous, threatened steelhead trout of the Central Coast.

A few years later, stakeholders had to decide whether to repair the dam, or take the road less traveled.

http://www.kionrightnow.com/news/local-news/cal-am-president-its-a-good-day-to-be-a-steelhead/39932502
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 11, 2016, 14:22:15 PM
https://youtu.be/VipVo8zPH0U
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 14, 2016, 19:55:51 PM
You really really don't want to eat farm raised salmon!!

The Chilean salmon industry's rampant use of antibiotics is once again under the microscope after a new report revealed that salmon producers are using record levels of the drugs to treat stocks suffering from salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS).

https://ecowatch.com/2016/06/14/chile-farmed-salmon-antibiotics/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 17, 2016, 12:55:31 PM
https://fsrn.org/2016/06/double-jeopardy-on-the-salish-sea-endangered-orcas-and-endangered-salmon/

A long time ago there were thousands of orcas, as legend has it, with salmon and herring spawning by the millions. Today southern resident whales who migrate through the Salish Sea and up and down the west coast foraging for salmon, number just 83. A recent baby boom offer some hope but diminishing runs of salmon and a toxic stew of pollution and noise points to a different outcome. Martha Baskin reports from Seattle

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 12, 2016, 21:28:53 PM
News about the future of Columbia river salmon and steelhead

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2016/07/11/future-salmon-steelhead-fishing-columbia-river/86950488/


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 14, 2016, 15:25:21 PM
Landmark Rulings Could Be Boon to Pacific Northwest Salmon

Recent rulings in US federal court could have a significant impact on the population and lifespan of salmon in Northwest rivers. The health and number of salmon in rivers in the region—which includes Canada, Washington State, Oregon, California, and Idaho—has long presented challenges.

In late June, a federal appeals court ruled that treaties guarantee Native American tribes have a right to fish for salmon. The court also ruled that the tribes also have a right for there to be salmon to catch.

The interests of Native American tribes, which were promised the right to salmon in treaties signed 150 years ago, have sometimes clashed with interests in the industrial, energy, development, and agricultural sectors. Changes in the natural environment have through pollution and global warming have also contributed to the decline in salmon runs over time, according to numerous extensive studies by biologists.

more at: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2111722-landmark-rulings-could-be-boon-to-pacific-northwest-salmon/


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 22, 2016, 09:51:49 AM
Everything You Want to Know About Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

http://www.orvis.com/news/fly-fishing/sockeye-salmon-facts/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 23, 2016, 08:33:30 AM
http://www.ktoo.org/2016/07/22/2016-year-bristol-bay-landed-2-millionth-salmon/


Bristol Bay is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. Over 132 years of commercial effort, now more than 2 billion salmon have been harvested from the Bay's waters. In fact, the 2 billionth salmon was landed sometime, by someone, on July 6, 2016.

It fell to Bob King, the longtime news director at KDLG and now avid fish historian, to announce this milestone in an essay he penned last fall.

"Since the canned salmon industry came to to Bristol bay in 1884, fishermen have landed 1.99 billion salmon, 93 percent of which were sockeye." King wrote. "It took 95 years for Bristol Bay to produce its first billion salmon, the two billionth fish will come just 38 years after that."

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 01, 2016, 15:32:22 PM
With Record Antibiotic Use, Concerns Mount that Chile's Salmon Farms Are Brewing Superbugs!

In a bid to combat an epidemic fish disease, last year Chile's aquaculture industry doused its salmon with 557 metric tons of antibiotics — a record high on a per-fish basis. This flood of drugs may be breeding bacteria able to withstand antibiotics widely used in human medicine. But a tight-lipped industry and opaque supply chains are keeping consumers in the dark about how their salmon was raised.


http://oceana.org/blog/record-antibiotic-use-concerns-mount-chile%E2%80%99s-salmon-farms-are-brewing-superbugs
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 02, 2016, 10:49:37 AM
Salmon decline a mystery?!



Ask scientists about the decline of the Yukon River's chinook salmon run, and they'll tell you they know one thing for sure — it's for real.

After that, it gets harder.

"There's all sorts of different possibilities and probably not one single reason why the fish decline or rebound," said Peter Hagen from Juneau, Alaska, where he works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which conducts much of the U.S. fisheries research.


http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/172130/Salmon-decline-a-mystery
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 21, 2016, 09:58:07 AM
Fraser River sockeye run lowest on record, commission says -

This year's Fraser River sockeye run is the lowest in more than 120 years, and the Watershed Watch Salmon Society says it all has to do with climate change.

"The salmon are suffering because of the changing environment of which we, as British Columbians, have some responsibility for," said WWSS fisheries adviser Greg Taylor of the fishery, which ended Aug. 12.

"There's a great link between (Premier) Christy Clark's inaction on climate change and river temperatures that are lethal to salmon." Taylor was commenting after the Pacific Salmon Commission released an update Friday by its Fraser River Panel on the migration of the river's sockeye and a review of the status of migration conditions in the river's watershed. -

See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/fraser-river-sockeye-run-lowest-on-record-commission-says-1.2327315#sthash.mqns3ePZ.dpuf

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 02, 2016, 12:51:06 PM
Judge Lets Cormorant Slaughter Continue (http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/09/02/judge-lets-cormorant-slaughter-continue.htm)

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — A federal judge will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to keep shooting native cormorants by the thousands, to reduce predation on young salmon, despite objections from environmentalists who say the slaughter doesn't address the real cause of dwindling salmon populations: hydroelectric dams.
     The Audubon Society of Portland led an April 2015 lawsuit against the Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, claiming that the plan scapegoated a natural predator and had little effect on survival rates of young salmon.
     Chief among the Audubon Society's arguments is that there are so many factors that determine whether a salmon will return from sea to spawn in its native waters that the government's focus on cormorant predation was not only fruitless, but hurt a native bird protected by the Migratory Species Act.



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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 14, 2016, 11:28:03 AM
As salmon dwindle, whales die

Governor Jay Inslee visited the San Juan Islands over Labor Day weekend for two reasons: to secure voters, and to get a little peace and quiet. While he did find those two things, he was also confronted with something else—orca advocates seeking help for the region's Southern Resident killer whales.

On the morning of September 3, atop Mount Grant, Inslee listened to the pleas of the orca group to remove dams from the Snake River to help replenish wild salmon stocks. In turn, he asked the group—which included both concerned scientists and citizens—questions about the importance of Columbia-Snake River Basin and its salmon to the orcas. The answer: With dams on the Columbia, there are fewer salmon, and with fewer salmon, the orcas will continue starving to death.

"We leave dams on rivers when they're not needed anymore, continue to put toxins in the water and then build fish hatcheries and farms which have their own problems," says Dr. Deborah Giles, research director at the Center for Whale Research who was one of the orca advocates who spoke to Inslee on Mount Grant. "Normally nature is resilient, but now the salmon have diminished to a level where they can't rebound."

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/13/as-salmon-dwindle-whales-die/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 16, 2016, 09:01:38 AM
Photographer's work highlights connection between Alaska's forests, salmon and people


Award-winning nature photographer Amy Gulick has a special place in her heart for Alaska's salmon and how these fish affect not only the coastal and riparian ecosystems where they spawn, but are also a vital part of the Tongass National Forest's ecology far away from the water's edge.

Gulick's book, "Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska's Tongass Rain Forest," focuses on this subject. Since its publication, it has won two Nautilus Book Awards and an Independent Publisher Book Award. Meanwhile, Gulick continues to photograph Alaska's rich ecological stories, including a current conservation photography project.

We talked with Gulick about her work, how she manages to push away compassion fatigue during tough conservation photography work, and how her photography has changed the world in a positive way.

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http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/photographers-work-highlights-connection-between-alaskas-forests-salmon-people
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 16, 2016, 09:23:23 AM
On another note Commercial Salmon Farming continues to cause concern!

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http://www.troymedia.com/2016/09/14/not-well-salmon-farming/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 21, 2016, 12:01:47 PM
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Research has confirmed that escaped farmed salmon are breeding with wild salmon and producing offspring in many rivers in Newfoundland."We did find evidence of successful breeding between farmed and wild salmon. Approximately a third of the individuals we sampled showed evidence of hybrid ancestry," said Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientist Ian Bradbury, of the unpublished study presented at an international aquaculture conference in St. John's on Tuesday.

Researchers studied thousands of fish in 18 rivers on the island's south coast, and found evidence of interbreeding in 17 of them.

"It was widespread across a suite of the rivers that we looked at. I think there was only one river where we didn't see evidence of hybridization," said Bradbury.

It's estimated that over the decades since the advent of aquaculture, more than 750,000 salmon have escaped from fish farms in the province. The new study sheds light on what happens to them in the wild.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/dfo-study-confirms-widespread-mating-of-farmed-wild-salmon-in-nl/ar-BBwrxbY
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 28, 2016, 10:14:56 AM
FOOD
Consumers Urged to Avoid Buying Salmon to Let Depleted Fisheries Recover

http://www.alternet.org/food/consumers-urged-avoid-buying-salmon-let-depleted-fisheries-recover


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Post by: driver on September 28, 2016, 11:20:07 AM
I don't know how depleted the fishery is. Aaron could probably fill us in on that.

But I haven't bought salmon in many years. Mainly from my boycott of farm raised. And personaly I think salmon is a very bland meat. It may be better on the west coast where its fresher.
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Post by: Dougfish on September 28, 2016, 11:23:12 AM
It's going to be tough to not buy wild. We have some salmon recipes that are awesome, Jason.  :P

No farmed, no salmon at restaurants.
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Post by: benben reincarnated on September 28, 2016, 11:53:49 AM
Quote from: Dougfish on September 28, 2016, 11:23:12 AM
It's going to be tough to not buy wild. We have some salmon recipes that are awesome, Jason.  :P

No farmed, no salmon at restaurants.

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Post by: Grannyknot on September 28, 2016, 12:35:43 PM
dang.  not long ago they were telling us sockeye was one of the more sustainable wild caught species.
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Post by: driver on September 28, 2016, 12:38:42 PM
Quote from: Dougfish on September 28, 2016, 11:23:12 AM
It's going to be tough to not buy wild. We have some salmon recipes that are awesome, Jason.  [emoji14]

No farmed, no salmon at restaurants.
Thats the deal will salmon. It tastes like whatever you cook it in. I can do that with chicken or dolphin
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Post by: Aka on September 28, 2016, 16:50:44 PM
First off, gawt damn Jason, salmon in no way resembles chicken in flavor. Of all fish salmon is one of the most unique tasting.

Knowing where your fish comes from makes a big difference in whether you're eating a high quality, sustainable product or trash that's been fed pellets and antibiotics in a pen.

Alaska manages its salmon pretty well but some areas and types of fishing are better managed than others.I only buy wild caught Alaskan salmon and try to buy only Bristol Bay salmon or troll caught Southeast Alaskan coho and King salmon. Troll caught fish is one of the most sustainable methods.

Bristol Bay, with its four major sockeye rivers had a record year this past summer with overall return of 51 million sockeye, that's around 331,500,000 pounds of fish. Of those less than 10 million escape the nets and go upstream to their lakes to spawn. Bristol Bay is geographically blessed and is an ideal management area. The low number of rivers, sole species (sockeye), and high stock returns make AK F&G and fisheries biologists jobs easier. Salmon reruns in the rivers of Bristol Bay count into the millions of sockeye each season. Management of Lower Cook Inlet, Southeast Alaska, Prince William Sound, and even Kodiak island to some extent are a harder animals because they contain many small streams with medium to small annual returns. Further complicating things in these areas is the fact that most of those streams get 3-5 species of salmon returning each summer. The same is true for the Pacific Northwest and Canada.

The article would be a lot better if it addressed the wild salmon that shouldn't be bought rather than lump all wild salmon together. Washington state and the Oregon have no reason to allow commercial salmon fishing. Their runs have been depleted for so long that until they can get the Feds to remove damns on the Columbia and other major salmon streams they're screwed and shouldn't be harvesting any fish. I like Canada and most Canadians I've meet have been good people but they are fucking their salmon up bad. Until they end salmon farming I will boycott Canadian fish altogether.


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Post by: Big J on September 28, 2016, 17:11:15 PM
So what your saying is "yes to pebble mine"?
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Post by: Aka on September 28, 2016, 18:30:56 PM
I'll deep fry a Muskie and post pictures if you're not careful Big J.


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 05, 2016, 12:34:19 PM
Napa fish monitoring shows mixed results for salmon, trout


California's five-year drought may be taking a toll on the Napa County's steelhead trout population, though Chinook salmon appear to be making a modest comeback.


The Napa County Resource Conservation District each spring operates a funnel-shaped fish monitoring trap in the Napa River between Napa and the Oak Knoll Avenue bridge. The district recently released data from this year's program.


Chinook salmon and steelhead trout are species of special note. Various volunteer and regulatory efforts are underway to boost fish populations that have plummeted since pioneer days.

http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/napa-fish-montoring-shows-mixed-results-for-salmon-trout/article_c8a008cc-8fd3-5f89-8437-199a9c77a0d0.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 12, 2016, 20:40:35 PM
fuk Stanford and their stinkin dam...

SF Bay ecosystem collapsing as rivers diverted, scientists report
WASHINGTON — Evidence of what scientists are calling the planet's Sixth Mass Extinction is appearing in San Francisco Bay and its estuary, the largest on the Pacific Coast of North and South America, according to a major new study.

So little water is flowing from the rivers that feed the estuary, which includes the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Suisun Marsh and the bay, that its ecosystem is collapsing, scientists who conducted the study say.
 
Human extraction of water from the rivers is not only pushing the delta smelt toward extinction, they say, but also threatening dozens more fish species and many birds and marine mammals, including orca whales, that depend on the estuary's complex food web.

The findings by scientists at the Bay Institute, an environmental group, underline conclusions already reached by state regulators and are intended to buttress the environmental case for potentially drastic water restrictions in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area, and among farmers in the northern San Joaquin Valley.

The State Water Resources Control Board moved last month to require that Californians leave far more water — 40 percent of what would naturally flow during spring — in the San Joaquin River and its three main tributaries, the Tuolumne, Merced and Stanislaus rivers, in an effort to save fish species.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SF-Bay-ecosystem-collapsing-as-rivers-diverted-9953776.php
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 12, 2016, 20:43:15 PM
More damn dam news...

"Scientists tell us that removing the four Lower Snake dams is the single most important action we could take to restore salmon in the entire Columbia-Snake river basin," said Sam Mace of Save Our Wild Salmon

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/10/12/global-warming-versus-salmon-dam-if-you-do-dam-if-you-dont/#8e35ce2614ef
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 19, 2016, 11:41:45 AM
What happened to the pink salmon?

Prince William Sound pink salmon fishermen are glad to have this season, described by one captain as "biblically bad" behind them. The salmon harvest was less than 30% of the expected harvest for this year. Prince William Sound was not alone; Kodiak, Cook Inlet, and Chignik all had pink salmon harvests that were a fraction of their usual size. Southeast Alaska showed slightly better salmon returns but the numbers were still far short of projections. While fishermen try to pick up the pieces of an unprofitable summer, a lot of people have the same question: "What happened?"

Deputy Director of ADF&G Commercial Fisheries Forrest Bowers believes "there are issues related to survival in the North Pacific. We can control freshwater quality, and the freshwater habitat is generally pristine." The fishery is also managed for "escapement goals." Every year the first priority of management is to ensure that enough fish return to their natal streams to create the generation of fish that will return two years later. There were no problems with freshwater habitat or escapement two years ago.

http://sewardcitynews.com/2016/10/happened-pink-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 19, 2016, 11:52:23 AM
Feds unveil recovery plan for salmon habitats


California Coastal Chinook salmon and Northern California steelhead are now part of the NOAA Fisheries' Coastal Final Recovery Plan, which is set to implement strategies for returning the fish to self-sustaining population levels.

For the past 100 years, development and the conversion of forestlands to urban and agricultural lands led to the fish populations' decline according to the recovery plan and both the Chinook and steelhead were listed as threatened from 1997 to 2000 under the federal Endangered Species Act.

NOAA Fisheries Northern California Office Recovery Coordinator Julie Weeder said the recovery plan encompassed areas from Redwood Creek in Humboldt County to Aptos Creek in Santa Cruz County. She said the plan will acknowledge several deterrents both species face throughout their life stages, which span from their early life in freshwater to their maturation in the ocean and their inevitable return to freshwater for reproduction and spawning.

http://www.times-standard.com/article/NJ/20161018/NEWS/161019798
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 27, 2016, 17:34:21 PM

Feds release recovery plan for Snake River salmon, steelhead

By KEITH RIDLER, Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Changes in how dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers are operated are needed to improve migratory conditions for protected runs of Snake River chinook salmon and steelhead, federal officials say; a proposed recovery plan released Thursday by the National Marine Fisheries Service also said habitat needs to be improved in tributaries where fish spawn and in the Columbia River estuary where young fish transition to ocean life.

The Snake River and its tributaries in Idaho, Oregon and Washington state at one time supported more than half of the Columbia River basin's summer steelhead and more than 40 percent of the spring and summer chinook salmon.

But in the 1990s the two runs were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The 262-page recovery plan is described as a roadmap for federal agencies, state governments, tribes and private entities to use for possible action that could boost the two runs.

The plan sets goals before delisting can be attained. The goals, which include the number of returning fish, are broken down into the various streams that make up the Snake River Basin, with some streams in better shape than others.

For some populations "we may see substantial and quick movement in productivity, and in others it may take longer," said Ritchie Graves of the National Marine Fisheries Service during a news conference Thursday.

Scientists acknowledged gaps in knowledge in creating the plan. The reason for losses of young fish in tributaries is not clear, for example. And what young fish do when exiting the Columbia River into the Pacific Ocean in what is recognized as a unique ecosystem called the plume is also not clear.

"The importance of understanding how fish survive and don't survive in the plume has become increasingly important," said Rosemary Furfey, recovery coordinator for the Fisheries Service.

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2016/oct/27/feds-release-recovery-plan-snake-river-salmon-steelhead/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 22, 2016, 12:05:04 PM
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/22/will-removing-klamath-dams-lead-to-a-salmon-revival/

Year after year, volunteers return to tributaries of the Klamath River, just like the fish they're trying to help do the same thing.

Jimmy Peterson, a fisheries project coordinator for the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council, places rocks and stones to make fish passages in Fort Goff Creek, 60 miles up from the river's mouth on California's North Coast.

"This creek has extremely awesome habitat up top here," Peterson says. "Extremely awesome."

Then he translates: "The water stays really cold and there's plenty of nice spawning gravel that go up fairly far into the watershed. There's not a lot of human activity up there either, so it's fairly untouched."

Scientists estimate that a century ago, hundreds of thousands of coho may have run up the Klamath's streams and tributaries. Now it's a few thousand. Federal and private grants fund the council's work, helping coho access "extremely awesome" habitat because coho are threatened with extinction.

Dams aren't the only reason salmon, trout and other fish need help on the Klamath. But they are a big one. The promise of dam removal is free passage for fish up to cooler spots and native headwaters. And the Klamath River, near California's northern border, may become the next big western river to see that happen. Federal energy regulators are considering a plan that would open hundreds of miles of the Klamath to the potential of the largest river restoration in U.S. history.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 17, 2017, 15:17:08 PM
A MAJOR milestone in salmon conservation has been reavealed as the fishing season on the River Tay opened today. The opening at Meikleour on the River Tay has been boosted by confirmation that the "dry" River Garry tributary will flow again after over 60 years.Spawning salmon will have access following a landmark agreement. A section of one of the Tay's most important tributaries is soon to have consistent flows restored after decades of very extensive water abstraction.

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/dry-tayside-salmon-river-tributary-reopens-after-60-years-1-4340573
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 10, 2017, 21:56:32 PM
Truckloads of baby fish hauled to river in restoration plan http://koin.com/ap/truckloads-of-tiny-fish-hauled-to-river-in-restoration-plan/ via @koinnewsp


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 16, 2017, 09:04:16 AM
After an absence of more than a decade, a trickle of salmon are finally finding their way back to Sonoma County streams, thanks to private landowners and a coalition of conservationists.

Roughly 22 million years ago, the fish we know as salmon evolved the complicated biology they needed to commute between inland freshwater streams and the open salty ocean. Thus began one of the most remarkable life cycle journeys known on the planet.

Two million years ago, on the ancient California coastline, the salmon would have found a perfect cold and clear waterway emptying into the Pacific near the mouth of today's Russian River. Running a hundred miles back among high ridges and dense redwood forest, its widely branching network of creeks and tributaries made ideal habitat for the spawning fish and its young.

And that paleo-Russian River has been the salmon's home ever since.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/lifestyle/6779466-181/baby-salmon-trickle-back-to?artslide=0

https://youtu.be/doH_RXbXXJg


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 16, 2017, 10:19:41 AM
Coho salmon reintroduced into Grande Ronde Basin

The Lostine River flowed gently Thursday afternoon through Wolfe Ranch near Wallowa, where a truck hauling young coho salmon backed slowly down a gravel drive to the water's edge.

For the first time in 31 years, coho were released into the Grande Ronde Basin, following a ceremony hosted by the Nez Perce Tribe and Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife. Approximately 50 people gathered to celebrate the occasion, marking a major milestone in the effort to restore a once-abundant fishery.

Guests watched from just upstream of the tribe's Lostine salmon weir as a thick hose connected to the tanker belched tens of thousands of finger-size smolts into the river. Silver flashes darted around the stream bank before the fish eventually took to the current and began their long journey to the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.wallowa.com/local_news/20170311/coho-salmon-reintroduced-into-grande-ronde-basin


https://youtu.be/ZRdBB8GW_Ho


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 21, 2017, 20:05:58 PM
Measures save young salmon after failure of Oroville Dam spillway

A million fingerling salmon, rescued from almost certain death after the Oroville Dam spillway fell apart last month, began their remarkable journey to the ocean Monday by being launched unceremoniously out of tanker trucks into the Feather River.

The flapping, flopping chinook were poured through pipes into the water at a Yuba City boat ramp, where their trek downstream to the ocean, through a gantlet of predators and environmental perils, started amid cheers from biologists and schoolchildren on a field trip.

The lucky fish are among 2 million spring-run chinook moved from the state-run Feather River Fish Hatchery last month after a gaping hole opened in the main spillway at Oroville Dam and erosion on the emergency spillway sent plumes of suffocating silt into their rearing pens.


http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Measures-save-young-salmon-after-failure-of-11015659.php
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 26, 2017, 09:15:59 AM
https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/community/2017/07/26/salmon-tribal-interests-at-stake-in-columbia-river-treaty-update

The 50-year-old treaty with Canada governing the massive Columbia River system is up for revision. Aaron Wolf of Oregon State University explains what's at stake as the two nations begin to discuss changes.
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Post by: Aka on July 28, 2017, 19:49:20 PM
"Bristol Bay red salmon run smashes records"

https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/fishing/2017/07/28/bristol-bay-red-salmon-run-smashes-records/






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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 04, 2017, 08:43:15 AM
SEATTLE — The company whose collapsed net pens released thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound is planning to stock another marine facility off Bainbridge Island with a million juvenile fish despite a request from the governor not to do so.

Gov. Jay Inslee had asked Cooke Aquaculture not to move fish from its hatchery to other saltwater net pens until the investigation into the Aug. 19 salmon farm collapse at its Cypress Island facility was completed.


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https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/company-behind-farmed-fish-escape-to-move-more-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 10, 2017, 10:53:41 AM
Photo of salmon deterrent mats courtesy Trans Mountain website.
After swimming 1,300 kilometres upstream to their spawning grounds near the headwaters of the Fraser River, Chinook salmon returning to Swift Creek this year found their gravel beds blocked by a bright orange layer of snow fencing.

Kinder Morgan, the pipeline company that put it there, patted itself on the back for its "innovative" use of the deterrent mats, which prevent salmon from digging nests in the streambed to spawn. Of course, the only problem is it didn't have permission to install them.

But the company went ahead with its plans, although it had not met its conditions, to start construction without the necessary permits. This reckless behaviour is shocking from a company asking for the public's trust. 

On Sept. 8 the National Energy Board (NEB) sent a letter to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) asking for confirmation that this work, among other measures, would require authorization under the Fisheries Act. It noted Kinder Morgan's plans, "could constitute serious harm."

Kinder Morgan posted photos of Swift Creek lined with orange plastic even though DFO had not yet responded. If anybody else had gone into a major salmon-bearing stream and interfered with fish spawning, there would be absolute hell to pay. Violations of the Fisheries Actoften carry tens of thousands of dollars in fines but so far there's been no penalty at all.

Are we supposed to just trust that Kinder Morgan knows what it's doing? With dwindling salmon runs and starving killer whales, the company wants to use untested methods to prevent spawning in 26 streams along its pipeline route.


https://www.vancouverobserver.com/opinion/kinder-morgan-goes-rogue-proving-it-can-t-be-trusted
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Post by: Aka on October 11, 2017, 18:29:30 PM
"This year, 56 million sockeye salmon swam hundreds of miles from the ocean toward the rivers and streams of the Bristol Bay watershed in southwest Alaska.

Many that escaped fishermen and bears leapt over waterfalls and used a mysterious combination of the Earth's magnetic field and their own sensory memories to locate the exact streams where they were born -- and then spawned, made gravel nests for their young, and died.
"It seems like a heroic -- and perhaps tragic -- life cycle," said Thomas Quinn, a professor at the University of Washington who has been studying fish in Bristol Bay for 30 years.
The salmon's incredible migration also sustains people: Nearly half of the world's sockeye catch comes from this one region, which is one of the last, great salmon fisheries on Earth. The returning salmon and other ecological resources create some 14,000 full- and part-time jobs, generate about $480 million annually -- and support 4,000-year-old Alaska Native cultures.
Now, however, Quinn and others fear this cycle could be strained if not broken.
For more than 15 years, Northern Dynasty Minerals, a Canadian mining company, has sought to build a gold and copper mine in Bristol Bay. And this spring, the Trump administration took swift action to make that prospect more likely..."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/bristol-bay-salmon-invs/index.html


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 21, 2017, 11:40:13 AM
Marine mammals on the West Coast may now be eating more Chinook salmon than those being caught by commercial and recreational fisheries combined, a new study finds.

It shows that recovering populations of killer whales, sea lions, and harbor seals have dramatically increased their consumption of Chinook salmon in the last 40 years.

"We have been successful at restoring and improving the population status of protected marine mammals," said Brandon Chasco, a doctoral candidate at Oregon State University and lead author of the study. "But now we have the potential for protected seals and sea lions to be competing with protected killer whales, and all of which consume protected Chinook salmon."

The research was a collaboration of federal, state and tribal scientists in the Pacific Northwest, including Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries.

http://www.king5.com/tech/science/environment/marine-mammals-catching-more-salmon-than-fishermen-harvest/493351252
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 21, 2017, 11:43:00 AM
A relatively new $13.5 million hatchery intended to save Snake River sockeye salmon from extinction is instead killing thousands of fish before they ever get to the ocean, and fisheries biologists in Idaho think they know why.

The Department of Fish and Game in information released this week says water chemistry at the Springfield Hatchery in eastern Idaho is so different from that in the central region that the young fish can't adjust when released into the wild.

"It's not a disaster, it's part of what you experience when you open a new hatchery," Paul Kline, Fish and Game's assistant fisheries chief, said in a post on the agency's website.

Idaho Rivers United, an environmental group, blasted the report as more reason for removing four dams on the lower Snake River that impede salmon.

"Until we address main-stem survival we're missing the biggest opportunity for these amazing fish," Kevin Lewis, the group's executive director, said in a statement.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/experts-idaho-hatchery-built-save-salmon-killing-51227241
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Post by: Dougfish on November 21, 2017, 13:58:55 PM
Fucking humans!  n!n :;! n!n :;!
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 28, 2017, 22:06:02 PM
A Canadian fish processing plant is under scrutiny after footage was released showing bloody effluent being discharged into British Columbia's waters. The "very graphic" images have raised concerns the wastewater could spread disease to the province's Pacific wild salmon population.
A constant stream of billowing bright red liquid is seen rippling and mixing into the otherwise clear waters.
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing," says photographer Tavish Campbell who filmed the footage during underwater dives between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
"I was grossed out at the same time I was feeling mad," he says. "I was just in shock."
The effluent flowed into waters around BC's Discovery Islands where wild Fraser River sockeye salmon migrate each year .
The red water samples collected later tested positive for pathogens potentially harmful to fish: PRV and Piscirickettsia salmonis bacteria.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42115794
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 04, 2017, 12:26:35 PM

Baby endangered California salmon use different rivers than expected, research shows

Biologists assumed baby winter-run Chinook salmon hung out in the Sacramento River where they hatched until they grew large enough to make the trip downstream to the Pacific Ocean.

A recently released scientific study challenges that assumption – and may have implications in how fisheries agencies manage Sacramento Valley waterways to protect the critically endangered fish.

In a paper published online last week in the journal Biological Conservation, a team of California researchers revealed a surprising finding: Juvenile winter-run Chinook aren't just using the Sacramento River as rearing habitat; after hatching, they also venture in large numbers into the river's tributaries, including creeks that feed into it below Redding, as well the Feather and the American rivers.

Winter-run Chinook are a distinct species of salmon that return each year to spawn and die in the Sacramento River near Redding. As recently as the 1960s, tens of thousands of adult fish used to make the one-way journey.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article187861334.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 05, 2017, 15:50:03 PM
iver-watchers saw a small uptick in the number of Atlantic salmon that returned to the Penobscot River this year, but the total — 840 — still meant that for a sixth consecutive year, fewer than 1,000 salmon were counted, according to data compiled by the Maine Department of Marine Resources Division of Sea Run Fisheries and Habitat.

Since salmon returns began at the Veazie Dam in 1978 (now counts are done at Milford), that's the longest string of sub-1,000 years recorded. Another four-year string of sub-1,000-fish years occurred from 1999 through 2002.


http://outthere.bangordailynews.com/2017/12/04/fishing/840-atlantic-salmon-counted-on-the-penobscot-this-year/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 08, 2017, 13:48:06 PM
The Hope Island Fish Farm floats in the middle of Puget Sound, about a 15-minute boat ride from Whidbey Island's Deception Pass. Narrow metal walkways surround giant nets anchored to the bottom of the sound. Those nets hold thousands of Atlantic salmon--though it's difficult to see them until they jump.

Tom Glaspie is the site manager. As he talks, rotating metal tubes spray fish food out over the water.

Glaspie said he dives in with the fish about once a month to check that the nets are still properly anchored.

"It's very dark down there," Glaspie said. "Swim right through them, and you won't see a single fish."

Atlantic salmon have been farmed in the Sound for more than 30 years. That's in part because Atlantic salmon are domesticated: They grow faster than Pacific salmon and don't get into fights in the pens. It's like the difference between raising cattle and raising bison.

There are environmental reasons as well. When Atlantic salmon escape, they can't breed with native salmon. But, if Pacific salmon were to be domesticated and to escape, they could breed with wild fish and dilute their genetic stock.

Part 1
http://nwpr.org/post/does-atlantic-salmon-fish-farming-puget-sound-have-future

Part 2
http://nwpr.org/post/future-northwest-fish-farming-may-be-all-land





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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 12, 2017, 11:31:03 AM
More than three months after about 100,000 Atlantic salmon escaped a net pen in Puget Sound, they are still turning up strong and lively in the Skagit River.

Strong, silvery and feisty, the Atlantic salmon hit the boat deck, thrashing and thumping. It was the sixth one the Upper Skagit Indian fishing crew caught that day.

More than three months after a massive escape of Atlantic salmon from Cooke Aquaculture's net pen at Cypress Island, Atlantics are still turning up very much alive in the Skagit River, one of Washington's premier Pacific salmon strongholds.


Out to collect chum for broodstock for the tribe's hatchery, the crew drifted a quarter-mile stretch of the river, putting in at Hamilton, Skagit County. They caught more Atlantics than anything else: more than coho, more than chum, more than Dolly Varden trout, more even than suckers.

Caught more than 42 miles up the Skagit in a brief fishery in just a short stretch of river, those Atlantics were surely not the only ones in the river or the region, said Scott Schuyler, natural-resources director for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, based in Sedro-Woolley.


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/escaped-atlantic-salmon-found-42-miles-up-skagit-river/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 18, 2017, 11:26:39 AM
State cancels Atlantic salmon farm lease at Port Angeles


Cooke Aquaculture Pacific has lost the lease for its Atlantic salmon net-pen farm in Port Angeles and must shut down and remove it, said Hilary Franz, state commissioner of public lands, who terminated the lease.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 22, 2017, 10:39:13 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/21/homepage2/alaska-mine-pebble-epa-invs/index.html

See Video in Link!


A mining company announced on Thursday that it is proceeding with plans to build an Alaskan gold and copper mine, which critics say threatens to pollute the home of the world's largest wild sockeye salmon population.

Northern Dynasty Minerals said it would file on Friday to begin the permit process to develop the controversial project, known as Pebble Mine.
The move was made possible after Environmental Protection Agency director Scott Pruitt removed special protections that were placed on the Bristol Bay watershed during the Obama administration. Canadian-based Northern Dynasty, parent company of Pebble Limited Partnership, acknowledged it was the withdrawal of the EPA's protection under the Clean Water Act that has allowed the mine permit process to move forward.

Initial plans for the gold and copper mine to be built in the Bristol Bay watershed were extremely controversial, resulting in a yearslong environmental study by the EPA.
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Post by: BRFFF on September 01, 2018, 07:30:13 AM
https://www.king5.com/amp/article?section=news&subsection=local&headline=green-river-project-underway-to-save-salmon&contentId=281-588194673

Green River Project to restore habitat


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Post by: BRFFF on September 01, 2018, 07:33:56 AM
https://www.thedailyworld.com/news/rising-yakima-river-temperatures-pose-threat-to-salmon/

Global warming and drought are causing higher water temperatures on the  Yakima threatening salmon populations 


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Post by: BRFFF on September 01, 2018, 07:36:38 AM
http://amp.thenewstribune.com/latest-news/article217577900.html

Nearly 1 million more Atlantic salmon are headed to Puget Sound, a year after a catastrophic fish escape caused by the same company that now is stocking more pens.


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 26, 2018, 09:43:17 AM
Coho salmon come home to Lostine River after 40-year absence
Two fish return, with perhaps thousands close behind

After a nearly 40-year absence, the first adult coho salmon entered the mouth of the Lostine River Sunday night. The silvery female is returning to the river where she was released as hatchery smolt in 2017.
According to Rick Zollman, production supervisor at the Nez Perce Tribe's Lostine River weir, the female was 57 centimeters long, healthy and ripe with eggs. Just a day later, a 71 centimeter male coho found his way into the fish trap at the mouth of the river.
In an email Tuesday morning announcing the return of the first two fish from the 2017 release, Jim Harbeck, manager of the Nez Perce Tribe's Joseph Fisheries office, joked, "Now they're a couple."
What isn't a joke are the odds these fish overcame to get to the Lostine. Part of a reintroduction project sponsored by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Tribe, this first couple of adult coho were some of 500,000 smolt, juvenile salmon ready to migrate to the ocean, released during a ceremony March 9, 2017.


https://www.lagrandeobserver.com/home/6624935-151/coho-salmon-come-home-to-lostine-river-after
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 26, 2018, 09:45:00 AM
Tossing salmon for science
A decades-long experiment demonstrates how the iconic fish help trees grow.


Every year thousands of sockeye salmon meet their end in Hansen Creek, a pebble-strewn tributary of Lake Aleknagik in southwestern Alaska, whether from old age or at the paws and jaws of a brown bear. Either way, they're almost certainly destined to rot away on the north-facing bank of the stream.That's because professors, researchers and students have been systematically tossing their carcasses to that side of the creek for the last 20 years. The scientists count and measure the carcasses and then toss them out of the streambed and up into the forest using wooden poles with metal hooks on the end, called gaffs. In total, they tossed about 295 tons of salmon onto Hansen Creek's north-facing bank to avoid double counting surveyed fish. In doing so, they have created a unique opportunity to study exactly how salmon fertilize the forest.

Over the past 20 years, researchers across the Northwest have shown that salmon play an essential role in forests: Trees next to salmon-bearing streams appear to grow better than their salmon-deprived counterparts, and the nutrients salmon bring from the ocean make their way into the needles and wood of trees. But this experiment, https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.2453 described in a recently published paper, led by Tom Quinn, a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, proves a basic fact: More salmon means faster growing trees.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/scientific-research-tossing-salmon-for-science
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 04, 2018, 11:21:53 AM
LEWISTON – Three adult coho salmon, the first from an effort by the Nez Perce Tribe to re-establish an extinct run, have returned to the Lostine River.

The fish, which were among the more than 500,000 smolts released into the river in March 2017, were trapped at a weir near the town of Lostine this week. More fish are on their way.

Before the smolts were released last year, about 5,000 were implanted with tiny electronic tags that allow them to be detected as they pass dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers. According to the latest information available, an estimated 2,100 of the fish have climbed fish ladders at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River and about 300 have crossed Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River.

Becky Johnson, production manager for the tribe's fisheries division, said there haven't been two adult coho in the Lostine River since 1966. The run was officially declared extinct in the 1980s.


http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/nov/03/three-adult-coho-salmon-have-returned-to-lostine-r/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 09, 2018, 16:05:04 PM
https://www.adn.com/politics/2018/11/06/stand-for-salmon-measure-losing-as-early-results-stream-in/


Ballot measure meant to boost salmon protections loses decisively

A ballot measure designed to boost protections for salmon and other fish failed by a large margin Tuesday night amid an onslaught of heavy opposition spending by powerful oil and mining interests.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting by 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, Ballot Measure 1 received 145,997 votes against, and 83,479 votes in favor, a 64-to-36 margin.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 09, 2018, 16:08:00 PM
With salmon ballot measure's defeat, Pebble celebrates

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2018/11/08/with-salmon-ballot-measures-defeat-pebble-celebrates/

By a significant margin, Alaska voters defeated Ballot Measure 1, commonly known as the Stand for Salmon initiative.
The controversial measure was aimed at increasing protections for Alaska's most iconic fish. It would have significantly toughened the environmental permitting process for large developments impacting salmon habitat.
The outcome was celebrated by a key figure pressing ahead on another controversial issue: the CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership.
Pebble CEO Tom Collier said even though his company's mine proposal wasn't always at the forefront of the debate, the salmon habitat initiative was, in some ways, all about Pebble.
"It was clear that this initiative was aimed at trying to stop Pebble and to stop any other major significant resource development project in Alaska," Collier said in an interview Wednesday.

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Post by: Aka on November 12, 2018, 09:56:46 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on November 09, 2018, 16:08:00 PM
With salmon ballot measure's defeat, Pebble celebrates

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2018/11/08/with-salmon-ballot-measures-defeat-pebble-celebrates/

By a significant margin, Alaska voters defeated Ballot Measure 1, commonly known as the Stand for Salmon initiative.
The controversial measure was aimed at increasing protections for Alaska's most iconic fish. It would have significantly toughened the environmental permitting process for large developments impacting salmon habitat.
The outcome was celebrated by a key figure pressing ahead on another controversial issue: the CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership.
Pebble CEO Tom Collier said even though his company's mine proposal wasn't always at the forefront of the debate, the salmon habitat initiative was, in some ways, all about Pebble.
"It was clear that this initiative was aimed at trying to stop Pebble and to stop any other major significant resource development project in Alaska," Collier said in an interview Wednesday.

A bunch of fucking dipshits live in Alaska.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 13, 2018, 15:10:05 PM

a lousey reason to jump  :o


https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/why-do-salmon-leap/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 13, 2018, 15:29:22 PM
This is a fish story about the steelhead trout that got away and then returned to Napa after a sojourn to the sea.
This threatened species journeys from the freshwater they are born in to the ocean and back to fresh water to spawn. Scientists have long assumed that adult steelhead in the Napa River are Napa natives.
But only this year has the Napa County Resource Conservation District (NCRD) verified scientifically that this case. Tiny tags implanted in the fish and an underwater antenna provided the proof.

Two Napa steelhead have beyond any doubt come home.
"That's what we had hopes for," NRCD senior biologist Jonathan Koehler said.
A thriving steelhead trout population in the Napa River would be a local triumph. Millions of dollars have been spent restoring fish-friendly habitat. State regulations require vineyard owners to reduce sediment runoff from their property to help steelhead and other fish.



https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/fish-fastrak-system-shows-napa-steelhead-come-home/article_7bd2d455-3df7-5145-8ee4-e29e070550d7.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 03, 2018, 11:26:53 AM
Salmon River businesses brace for impact of suspended steelhead season

Steelhead fishing on the Salmon River was cut short this year, after a threat of a lawsuit from conservation groups forced the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to indefinitely suspend the season.
Businesses that rely on steelhead fishing are bracing for the suspension's economic impact and some are already feeling the effects.
The busiest times for steelhead fishing on the Salmon River are typically late fall and early spring. The season typically runs from approximately Sept. 1 to Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 to April 30. Fishing outfitters and guides along the river, from Salmon to Riggins, already are seeing spring booking cancellations due to the unknown status of spring steelhead season.

"It's going to hurt the whole community, all of the communities along the Salmon River and the Clearwater," said Jess Baugh, owner of Mountain River Outfitters, a family-owned fishing outfitter based in Riggins.

https://www.postregister.com/business/salmon-river-businesses-brace-for-impact-of-suspended-steelhead-season/article_3425b7ca-9f77-5670-8838-b3d5b9677fad.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 21, 2018, 10:36:51 AM
Investigators are examining whether the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife followed protocol before a power outage killed more than 6 million salmon at a Gig Harbor hatchery.


The Minter Creek Hatchery is like a nursery for salmon. The fish are raised from eggs all the way to juveniles ready for release.
The Gig Harbor hatchery suffered a catastrophic loss of more than 6 million Chinook salmon last week when a windstorm knocked out power, and a backup generator failed.
"These drawers each hold a little over 5,000 in each drawer. A portion of the population has suffocated. The rest of them are in fine shape and managed to get through this with us pumping some water into that head trough," explained South Puget Sound Hatchery Operations Manager Jim Jenkins.

https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/state-investigating-catastrophic-salmon-deaths-at-pierce-county-hatchery/281-ddc16476-e7d5-4adf-991a-240b3d18c1b9
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 21, 2018, 10:39:41 AM
Columbia, Snake salmon get three years of spring 'spill' help


Conservationists and commercial fishers cheered an agreement Tuesday among state, federal and tribal bodies to send more water over eight federally operated Northwest dams to aid endangered salmon.
Public power customers weren't so sure, though.
The agreement is intended to keep the contentious issue of how to protect juvenile fish migrating downstream on the Columbia and Snake rivers out of the courts for three years.

https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2018/12/19/columbia-snake-salmon-get-three-years-of-spring.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 21, 2018, 10:44:03 AM
Targeting sea lions will help orcas, Columbia River salmon

When it comes to helping endangered orcas, Congress just knocked an important item off Washington state's lengthy to-do list.
The U.S. House and Senate have passed a measure that will make it easier to kill sea lions that feast on protected salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River basin. The bill will help protect the billions of government dollars already invested in salmon preservation, without causing long-term harm to sea-lion populations.

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/targeting-sea-lions-will-help-orcas-columbia-river-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 23, 2018, 16:23:26 PM
Get paid to fish?

The average payment among the top 20 fishermen was $29,000 each. The top angler was paid a total of $71,000.


https://www.king5.com/amp/article?section=news&subsection=local&headline=over-180000-salmon-eating-fish-removed-during-annual-fishing-season&contentId=281-9cc64e0a-ab39-4b07-86f5-ce77f7d08f01


OVER 180,000 SALMON-EATING FISH REMOVED DURING ANNUAL FISHING SEASON

More than $1.4 million was paid to fishermen who caught northern pikeminnow in the Columbia and Snake rivers.



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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 23, 2018, 16:35:47 PM
Emergency efforts to save kokanee salmon continue!

Kokanee salmon are in jeopardy of extinction. Several groups are continuing their efforts to restore habitat before the fish disappear.


https://www.king5.com/mobile/article/tech/science/environment/emergency-efforts-to-save-kokanee-salmon-continue/281-d49e099f-3f63-4d6d-8770-548fd895993f
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 02, 2019, 09:51:09 AM


[font=&amp]Biologists are trying to determine whether a warm, dry fall is responsible for a drop in the number of landlocked Atlantic salmon that swam up a Lake Champlain tributary in Vermont to spawn this fall or if there could be other reasons behind a five-year decline.[/font]


[font=&amp][/size]U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service statistics found that 42 salmon were trapped at the Winooski River fish passage this fall at the dam between Burlington and the city of Winooski where technicians trap the fish and release them upstream so they can continue to their spawning grounds.[/font]
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 02, 2019, 11:38:27 AM
A Norwegian company plans to build one of the world's largest land-based salmon farms in Belfast, a project that would create 60 jobs within two years and up to 140 once it is completed, according to the company's chief executive officer.

Nordic Aquafarms, an international developer of land-based aquaculture, has signed agreements to purchase 40 acres on the outskirts of the city and plans an initial investment of $150 million in the project.

Nordic Aquafarms CEO Erik Heim said Tuesday his company chose Belfast after a six-month search that started in Japan and China, then took stock of Ireland and Spain before settling on Belfast. He announced the plan at the University of Maine's Hutchinson Center.

Heim cited Maine's "pristine environment, cold water conditions, long history as a leader in the seafood industry and proximity to major consumer markets in the Northeast United States," as reasons for choosing the Belfast location.

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/30/norwegian-company-to-build-large-land-based-salmon-farm-in-belfast

This is to be locate on the banks of the Little River, which, I believe has a population of sea-run brown trout  :o
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Post by: Dougfish on January 02, 2019, 12:27:28 PM
Ugh.
I hope all of you have stopped buying/ordering ocean farmed fish.
Buy wauld!

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Post by: BRFFF on January 05, 2019, 20:39:39 PM
Salmon and Orca connection; two intertwined endangered species.

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https://earther.gizmodo.com/an-extinction-event-is-unfolding-in-washington-state-1831499420


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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/in-the-great-debate-to-save-the-orcas-the-apex-predator-is-missing/

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Post by: BRFFF on January 06, 2019, 15:38:57 PM
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https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/uncovering-the-secret-lives-of-salmon-1.23578248





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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 16, 2019, 10:22:54 AM
Atlantic Salmon making news to the east and west coasts. Fish farming is here to stay, there is no stopping it as the demand continues to increase. The Nordic Aquafarms project in Maine, a 40 acre land based farm on the Little River in Belfast is reporting that 80 acres will be set aside for a buffer and recreation as an effort to be a "good neighbor". While on the pacific coast the indigenous people of BC are suing the Canadian Federal Government over fish farms that they say are threatening there historic rights and cause harm to the native salmon.

https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2019/01/14/salmon-ras-company-nordic-aquafarms-to-preserve-80-acres-in-maine/

QuoteNordic Aquafarms, the Norwegian company looking to build a large land-based Atlantic salmon farm on 40 acres of land in the small city of Belfast, Maine, says it has agreed to develop a plan with the Belfast Water District (BWD) to preserve about 80 acres as undeveloped.
Details still need to be worked out, but the company said in a press release issued Sunday that the agreement would maintain the aesthetically pleasing land around the Little River reservoir off of Herrick Road. The plan calls for the city to acquire the property from BWD at a reduced charge, "subject to a deed restriction prohibiting any development on the property, including any commercial use of its water resources. The ultimate plan is to transfer the property to a land trust", the company said in a press release.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-salmon-farming-lawsuit-1.4976042

QuoteA British Columbia First Nation is suing the federal government for allowing Atlantic salmon farming in its waters, which it says is a violation of its Aboriginal rights.
Dzawada'enuxw First Nation filed a claim in Vancouver federal court Thursday alleging that 10 fish farms located in the waters of their Central Coast territory infringe on their Aboriginal rights to harvest eulachon and wild salmon.
The filing alleges the fish farms threaten eulachon and wild salmon by exposing them to viruses and parasites from Atlantic salmon and that the farms pollute the marine environment.
The suit claims the federal government, in issuing licences to the 10 farms, infringed their Aboriginal rights. The nation seeks an order quashing the licences.
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https://www.northdeltareporter.com/news/federal-project-to-boost-chinook-salmon-population-in-fraser-river-delta/


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 23, 2019, 17:26:41 PM
Freshwater wildlife face an uncertain future


Pacific salmon are one of Canada's iconic creatures. Each summer, they complete their, on average, four- to five-year-long life cycle by returning from their rich ocean feeding grounds to the creeks and streams where they were born. Here, following in the "footsteps" of their parents, they will lay eggs, die and give rise to the next generation of salmon.
This transit from freshwater to the sea and back again is sometimes thousands of kilometres long. It can also be treacherous — the fish must navigate steep river rapids and avoid voracious predators.
But the trek is only being made harder by unnatural challenges. Humans continue to dam and pollute rivers, overfish and introduce invasive plants and animals. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how humans are profoundly reshaping fresh waters in Canada and around the world.

http://theconversation.com/freshwater-wildlife-face-an-uncertain-future-108863
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Post by: BRFFF on January 25, 2019, 17:53:38 PM
As damn dams come down the fish return to spawn!

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 10, 2019, 09:44:38 AM
Washington State v. Trump in Fight to Save Salmon, Orcas

Trump’s disregard for clean water and wild species has reached Washington State. That’s not good news for the state’s endangered salmon or starving orcas. But Washington State seems ready to stand up to Trump. We can't let dirty politics make dirty rivers.

On Wednesday, Washington State announced its right under the Clean Water Act to require the federal governmentâ€"which owns and operates nine dams on the Columbia and Snake riversâ€"to reduce oil pollution and prevent hot temperatures in the rivers. Less than 48 hours later, the Trump administration yanked the underlying draft water pollution permits in what appears to be an attempt to thwart the state's right to protect its rivers.


https://www.nrdc.org/experts/giulia-cs-good-stefani/washington-state-v-trump-fight-save-salmon-orcas
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 11, 2019, 08:52:23 AM
Fish farming has come a long way from its humble origins 4,000 years ago in China, when cages were used to raise carp. Two years ago, fish farming surpassed a major hurdle in human history when the amount of consumed farmed fish globally exceeded that of wild-caught fish. That threshold speaks to the important role of aquaculture in feeding people. Fish farming is now the fastest-growing animal-food production sector in the world, according to a United Nations report.

https://www.all-turtles.com/2018/10/23/oceans-and-ai-the-new-age-of-aquaculture/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 14, 2019, 14:32:59 PM
â€" Don’t plan on fishing for Maine Atlantic salmon any time this century. In a new analysis of the state of endangered species, federal officials estimate that it will take 75 years â€" about 15 generations of fish â€" for populations of Gulf of Maine Atlantic salmon to be healthy enough for fishing to resume. Additionally, the plan estimates that the annual cost of implementing recovery actions will be $24 million per year on top of recovery-based efforts covered by regular federal budgets.

https://fiddleheadfocus.com/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 14, 2019, 14:43:37 PM
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) â€" The federal government outlined an ambitious, potentially costly new plan to restore Atlantic salmon in the United States, where rivers teemed with the fish before dams, pollution and overfishing decimated their populations.

The Atlantic salmon has declined in the U.S. to the point where the last remaining wild populations of in the U.S. exist only in a handful of rivers in Maine. But the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are offering a new recovery plan to bring back those fish, which are listed under the Endangered Species Act.


https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/ambitious-new-plan-to-save-atlantic-salmon-has-big-price-tag/


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 18, 2019, 12:16:30 PM
The secret lives of salmon: Scientists to probe ailing Pacific stocks

An international coalition of scientists is about to investigate the mysteries of a troubled resource.

Twenty-one scientists from Russia, Canada, the United States, Japan and South Korea have taken residence on the Russian research ship MV Professor Kaganovsky for an unprecedented international expedition.
The five-week voyage will probe the secret lives of five Pacific salmon species with a massive grid search and test fishery across the Gulf of Alaska.

Before setting out Saturday, researchers scrambled to get their equipment stowed in the cramped laboratory space and backups to everything stored and below decks just in case.
What they hope to gain is an understanding of salmon health, behaviour and abundance that could revolutionize fisheries forecasting.

“We know virtually nothing about what happens to salmon once they leave nearshore waters in the Salish Sea,” said expedition organizer Dick Beamish.

The North Pacific is a proverbial black box that salmon swim into as juveniles and return from as adults, often ready to return to their home rivers and streams to spawn, he said.


https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-secret-lives-of-salmon-scientists-to-probe-ailing-pacific-stocks


https://youtu.be/X6tPcwSAyEI
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 19, 2019, 18:31:03 PM

The secret lives of salmon: Scientists to probe ailing Pacific stocks

https://youtu.be/plX38RnzxUo
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 25, 2019, 12:53:35 PM
Local Stakeholders Announce Major Investments in Klamath Basin


KLAMATH FALLS, OR â€" Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, joined by representatives from Klamath-area irrigation districts and tribes, today announced significant investments in the Klamath Basin were included in the 2019 spending bills that recently were passed by Congress and signed by the president.

“These big national bills often seem far removed from the concerns of life on the ground here in Oregon. But included in the spending package were bipartisan agricultural investments that are having real, lasting, on-the-ground impacts in rural communities throughout our stateâ€"including right here in the Klamath Basin,” Merkley said. “As the top Democrat on the Agriculture and Rural Development Subcommittee, and the only member of the Oregon delegation in either chamber to serve on the appropriations committee, I will continue to work to ensure that programs critical to Oregon’s farmers, ranchers and tribes are funded, and that those in the Klamath Basin and agricultural communities across our state have the resources and support that they need to thrive.”


https://www.klamathfallsnews.org/news/local-stakeholders-announce-major-investments-in-klamath-basin

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 25, 2019, 17:50:37 PM
The Sony World Photography Awards is today to present underwater photographer Wu Yung-sen (吳永森) with this year’s Taiwan National Award for his image of migrating salmon, titled Intense.
Wu’s image “captures the incredible journey” of the Pacific salmon, “which come to the west coast of Canada from the distant sea every autumn, to return to their birthplace in the inland rivers,” award organizers Sony and the World Photography Organization said in a statement.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2019/02/26/2003710430
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 02, 2019, 15:13:09 PM
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/01/news/british-nautical-maps-century-ago-help-bc-researchers-chart-kelp-beds

A serendipitous meeting between a professor and a colleague last year led to a treasure trove of historical maps indicating kelp bed locations off British Columbia's coast, helping experts understand the changes in the ocean's rainforests.

University of Victoria geography Prof. Maycira Costa saw the squiggly lines on the yellowed, hand-drawn map in a picture frame above her colleague's desk.

The wall art was from 1903 and Costa said her co-worker had found it amongst a pile of old maps in someone's office.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 04, 2019, 15:37:04 PM
65 fish and counting: The tentative recovery of Kouchibouguacis salmon

A Saint-Louis-de-Kent group is now daring to hope a low-profile egg incubation project is on its way to bringing back the Kouchibouguacis River's once abundant salmon population.

Salmon fishing was banned altogether in the river in 1999 when only 12 fish were counted returning from the ocean.

That number later slipped to nine.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/river-restoration-atlantic-salmon-kouchibouguac-kouchibouguacis-saint-louis-de-kent-1.5039424
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 08, 2019, 21:43:01 PM
NEW YORK (AP) â€" U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light to salmon genetically modified to grow about twice as fast as normal, but the company behind it may face legal challenges before the fish can be sold domestically.

The Food and Drug Administration said it lifted an alert that had prevented AquaBounty from importing its salmon eggs to its Indiana facility, where they would be grown before being sold as food. The agency noted the salmon has already undergone safety reviews, and that it lifted its alert because the fish would be subject to a new regulation that will require companies to disclose when a food is bioengineered.

https://apnews.com/1be7085378684f4990e240870e7c546c
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 11, 2019, 17:33:15 PM
Salmon numbers declining despite best efforts


Despite various conservation efforts and bans on fishing, we now have fewer wild salmon than even a decade ago and many reasons are being put forward for the continuing decline.

As scientists continue to probe reasons for the huge drop in salmon numbers, an expert says it’s an issue for everybody in our society; not just anglers and nature lovers.


https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/outdoorsandgarden/salmon-numbers-declining-despite-best-efforts-910010.html


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 12, 2019, 09:44:27 AM

Over the past several decades, fishermen, business owners, Alaska Native organizations and environmental groups have protested a proposed open-pit copper and gold mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay â€" a pristine salmon habitat.

Now the federal government is inching toward approving the mining project.

Read more here: https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/state/article227144774.html#storylink=cpy
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 15, 2019, 15:45:47 PM
'Startling' declines in salmon stocks provincewide, DFO warns

QuoteAll rivers in the province may soon be closed to retention salmon fishing, now that Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientists say their mid-season review of stocks in Labrador show numbers are down there as they were on the island.
"Declines of this magnitude over such a wide geographic range have not been seen before, so this is quite startling, and raised a lot of concern within the science sector," said DFO scientist Geoff Veinott.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/startling-declines-salmon-dfo-warns-1.4762804
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 18, 2019, 15:08:14 PM
Who knew? Tuna hatcheries?

QuoteStaying in the US, another story with a lot of interest last week was the news that Ichthus Unlimited plans to construct what will be the first tuna hatchery in North America -- and only the third in the world -- in the San Diego Bay area.

A new grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) and ongoing support from the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) checkoff program will allow Ichthus to establish the hatchery project, led by the latter's president, Alejandro Buentello.

It will cultivate Pacific bluefin tuna eggs, raise them to juvenile fish and distribute them to tuna farms to be raised to market maturity. "This aquaculture system will improve the sustainability and quality of tuna production. It also will stimulate economic growth, as bluefin tuna species alone generate an estimated value of $2 billion to $2.5bn per year globally," the firms said.


https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2019/03/18/editors-recap-17/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 18, 2019, 17:16:54 PM
Close to 10 million chinook and coho salmon swim in Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior.

There were none when Howard Tanner started as the chief of the Michigan Department of Conservation’s Fish Division in 1964.

His boss, Ralph MacMullan, spent much of their first meeting lambasting the fish department for its previous lack of action and dysfunction. Heaps of dead fish were washing up on beaches, the lakes were overly commercially fished and there was little recreational fishing to speak of.

He gave Tanner a mandate: “Do something.

“And if you can,” he told the Lansing State Journal, “make it spectacular.”


https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-michigan/michigan-history/former-michigan-dnr-chief-tells-story-of-how-salmon-got-to-great-lakes


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 21, 2019, 13:04:13 PM
Tear down the dams!


Quote from: undefinedChanges in the economics of hydropower generation in the Pacific Northwest are giving anadromous fish advocates optimism that four dams on the lower Snake River could soon be removed. The dams are widely blamed for being the main cause of salmon and steelhead declines in Idaho since they went into operation in the 1960s and ’70s.

“The lower Snake River dams are not economically viable in the larger context of what’s happening in the Pacific Northwest,” said river guide and Idaho Conservation League board member Jim Norton during a symposium at The Community Library in Ketchum on March 13-14. “I’ve never been more convinced that this is the moment.”


https://www.mtexpress.com/news/environment/salmon-advocates-see-potential-for-snake-river-dam-removal/article_6d75c006-4a76-11e9-ba14-ffdb37b94866.html



and speaking of dams, another one bites the dust... 'c;  :banana072:


QuoteCity councilors in Ellsworth voted Monday to approve the removal of an unused, city-owned dam, which would open 5 miles of Branch Lake Stream to Atlantic salmon and other species.
The council voted 7-0 to allow Town Manager David Cole to sign an agreement permitting the Downeast Salmon Federation to remove the dam this summer at Branch Lake Stream as it runs west from the northern end of Leonard Lake near Christian Ridge Road. The group will fund the $90,000 removal, said Brett Ciccotelli, a fisheries biologist with Downeast.

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/03/19/news/hancock/ellsworth-clears-way-for-removal-of-old-dam-on-branch-lake-stream/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 21, 2019, 14:11:32 PM
More Maine news, as Bradley takes an early lead against Michigan  :o


QuoteSHERIDAN, Maine â€" On Wednesday, March 6, Atlantic Salmon for Northern Maine volunteers and the president of the St. John Basin Salmon Recovery Inc. transported approximately 42,000 eyed salmon eggs to the Dug Brook Hatchery in Sheridan, near Ashland.

The eggs will be hatched to the unfed fry stage at the facility and stocked into an Aroostook River tributary. The fry introduction will add to the millions of salmon the group has released to the Aroostook River over the past 20 years. 

Last year, according to ASNM officials, the effort resulted in the Aroostook’s becoming the number-three river in salmon returns in all of Maine.

https://thecounty.me/2019/03/21/news/business-news/hatchery-receives-42000-salmon-eggs/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 28, 2019, 14:24:33 PM
Repeate spawners or kelt

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/the-salmon-that-were-born-to-survive/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 01, 2019, 11:12:30 AM
Sir David Attenborough accuses fish farms of threatening the survival of wild salmon through breeding genetically weaker specimens

In a YouTube film to mark the International Year of the Salmon (IYS), the broadcaster and conservationist warns: ‘The survival of these astonishing fish is at risk.
‘Dams blocking their rivers, over-exploitation, pollution of the water, the spread of parasites, diseases, and fish escaping from open-cage salmon farms… all these, together with the inevitable effects of climate change, are threatening their very survival.’

https://youtu.be/IZ2IRp9NRjo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6869129/Sir-David-Attenborough-accuses-fish-farms-threatening-survival-wild-salmon.html


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 03, 2019, 22:28:06 PM
QuoteThe Kennebec River is a treasure — and it needs more attention and help than we are currently providing.

I have kayaked several sections and fished the entire river, from its start at Moosehead Lake to Popham Beach. Spending a day on any section of the river is very special.

I even took my wife Linda on a guided fishing trip in the Kennebec Gorge, where we caught lots of native brook trout. For years, I caught lots of brook trout and landlocked salmon in the northern half of the river. Those fish have disappeared in many sections of the river, as did all of the fly-fishing shops. After Edwards Dam was removed, my friend Harry Vanderweide and I boated and kayaked the river from Waterville to Sidney, catching lots of bass.

https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/04/03/george-smith-bring-back-the-kennebec-river-initiative/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 08, 2019, 08:58:52 AM
It is freedom day for some Squamish salmon fry
Hundreds of thousands of chum fry released into channel — with the help of local school kids

https://www.squamishchief.com/community/it-is-freedom-day-for-some-squamish-salmon-fry-1.23782695



https://youtu.be/_27EGiecTTw
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 12, 2019, 20:57:49 PM
Human Drugs Are Polluting the Water—And Animals Are Swimming in It
Salmon on psychotropics, platypuses on prozac, and other strange tales from the wild

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/pharmaceutical-pollution/586006/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 19, 2019, 09:04:53 AM
Canada moves to save Pacific Chinook salmon

QuoteThe federal government is planning to severely limit both the commercial and recreational fishery of Pacific Chinook salmon in British Columbia's Fraser River basin to save the endangered species from extinction, Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced Tuesday.

Recent assessments by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada for Chinook salmon from the Fraser River system have found Chinook are in danger of disappearing from Canada, Wilkinson said.

Of the 13 wild Fraser River Chinook salmon populations assessed, only one is not at risk, he added.

"The science is clear: Pacific Chinook salmon are in a critical state," said Wilkinson. "Without immediate action, this species could be lost forever."

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/04/17/canada-moves-to-save-pacific-chinook-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 19, 2019, 14:25:42 PM
Plans to expand Iceland's fish farms risk decimating wild salmon populations

A
Quotefive-fold expansion in open net fish farms that scientists believe could decimate Iceland's wild salmon stocks is pitting Big Aquaculture against ecologists in the country.

Next month, a parliamentary bill is expected to extend farm licenses from 10 to 16 years, while omitting critics from oversight panels and handing primary monitoring powers to industry.

Jon Kaldal of the Icelandic Wildlife Fund said: "We are at a crossroads. If industrial-scale open net salmon farming is allowed to take over, it will cause massive pollution and a dramatic increase in the risk of farmed fish escaping. Iceland is the final frontier for north Atlantic salmon."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/19/huge-plans-to-expand-icelands-fish-farms-risk-decimating-wild-fish-populations
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Post by: Onslow on April 19, 2019, 15:38:19 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on April 12, 2019, 20:57:49 PMHuman Drugs Are Polluting the Water—And Animals Are Swimming in It
Salmon on psychotropics, platypuses on prozac, and other strange tales from the wild

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/pharmaceutical-pollution/586006/

If people would trouble themselves to sleep 7-8 hours a night, eat vegetables and whole grains instead of grease fried rubish, and vile processed foods, gobs of salt and sugar, they would be happier and healthier.  The lack of discipline regarding food and health is an indicator of poverty of the soul and the mind.

Anti pharma all the way here.  I have not had a prescription filled out in over 10 years.

Humans cannot sustain themselves at this current trajectory.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 20, 2019, 15:42:02 PM
If Salmon Could Talk, Here's What It Would Tell You

https://www.rd.com/food/fun/if-salmon-could-talk-heres-what-it-would-tell-you/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 24, 2019, 20:28:00 PM

Wild salmon stocks hit 'lowest level' on record after disastrous season on Scotland's prime rivers


Quotealmon catches on Scotland's rivers fell to their lowest level since records began last year, sparking calls for the preservation of the species to become a national priority.

Fisheries Management Scotland said official figures to be released by the Scottish Government on Wednesday would confirm that Atlantic salmon are at a "crisis point".

Rod and line catches are believed to have been lower than since records began in 1952, after a disastrous year on famous rivers, including the Tay, the Tweed and the Spey.

Alan Wells, chief executive of FMS, which represents the country's district salmon fishery boards, said: "Figures for 2018, taken together with those of recent years, confirm this iconic species is now approaching crisis point.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/24/wild-salmon-stocks-hit-lowest-level-record-disastrous-season/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 26, 2019, 09:51:56 AM
Thousands of young Atlantic Salmon released into Piscataquis River in Maine

The state of Maine has invested tens of millions of dollars into restoring riverways and the wildlife that populate and rely on them.

Wednesday, when thousands of young Atlantic Salmon were released into the Piscataquis River, it was seen as an investment in the future.

watch the video here:

https://www.wabi.tv/content/news/Thousands-of-young-Atlantic-Salmon-released-into-Piscataquis-River-509018171.html


Or watch another Maine salmon story here
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/04/26/news/state/maine-news-you-need-to-know-for-friday-37/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 27, 2019, 13:19:32 PM
After 65 Years, Salmon Are Returning to the San Joaquin


QuoteFRESNO, Calif. (CN) – Surviving an exhaustive maze of manmade barriers and hungry predators, a hardy group of salmon have beat the odds and returned to spawn in one of California's most-heavily dammed rivers.


The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says for the first time in over 65 years, threatened spring-run Chinook adult salmon have returned to the San Joaquin River near Fresno to complete their life cycle. The return of the hatchery-reared fish marks a huge milestone for a billion-dollar undertaking to revive an ancient population of salmon that disappeared in the 1940s with the opening of Friant Dam.

https://www.courthousenews.com/after-65-years-salmon-are-returning-to-the-san-joaquin/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 02, 2019, 12:52:20 PM
Snake River Dam Removal: Idaho Congressman Makes the Case to Save Salmon
Is the Snake River ready for a radical change? Removing four dams could be the key to bringing salmon numbers back up.

QuoteAt a recent conference in Boise, Republican Congressman Mike Simpson of Idaho raised the idea of removing four federal dams on the Snake River, saying bold actions may be needed to reverse the decades-long decline of steelhead and salmon in the Columbia River Basin.

"We need to stop thinking about what currently exists and ask ourselves, 'What do we want the Northwest to look like in 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years?'" Simpson tells a crowd at the Andrus Center this week.

The statement is striking because it is the first time that high-level Idaho leaders have said what fish biologists and advocates have been saying for years: Perhaps the last chance to stave off extinction of these treasured fish runs is to let the lower Snake River run free.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/rep-simson-r-idaho-makes-case-for-saving-salmon
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 05, 2019, 10:21:52 AM
Salmon-eating sea lions targeted at Columbia River dam
Salmon and steelhead congregate near the bottom of Bonneville Dam to go up fish ladders, facing some delays in "getting through the pinch points, and sea lions have figured that out."

https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/local/salmon-eating-sea-lions-targeted-at-columbia-river-dam/283-67a7f4bb-475a-4f28-aa4c-278c74f1bacc
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 08, 2019, 15:21:11 PM
Breaching dams for Idaho salmon?
Congressman Mike Simpson says it is a real possibility


Quote"The fisheries are down, the spawning counts are down, the return to the hatcheries are down," said retired Fisheries Biologist Jim Martin. "We haven't seen runs this dismal in probably twenty five, thirty years."


https://www.kivitv.com/news/outdoors/breaching-dams-for-idaho-salmon
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 13, 2019, 14:55:57 PM
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/there-is-no-chance-georginas-64lb-salmon-will-ever-be-beaten-that-is-a-tragedy/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 21, 2019, 15:57:25 PM
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/fda-approves-biotech-firms-genetically-modified-salmon-project


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When they mature and are harvested and sold, the salmon will become the first genetically modified organism (GMO) animal raised for human consumption in the United States.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 21, 2019, 16:03:58 PM
A lumber company accused of polluting a Tacoma waterway has agreed to settle, EPA says

Read more here: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article230615519.html#storylink=cpy

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 04, 2019, 15:50:53 PM

Maine's Atlantic salmon prognosis remains grim despite all-time low harvest and more adult returns to North American rivers


https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/national_world/maine-s-atlantic-salmon-prognosis-remains-grim-despite-all-time/article_65a41383-fc33-5285-9a61-c8007db17468.html

QuoteAccording to that report, salmon returns to U.S. rivers in 2018 met only 3 percent of the conservation limit for fish that had spent two winters at sea. And what's a "conservation limit?" That's defined as the number of spawning adults below which populations are unable to sustain themselves, and begin to decline.

And that pretty much defines the Atlantic salmon situation here in Maine; the fish is listed under the federal Endangered Species Act. Fishing for Atlantic salmon here is not allowed, and the population that does exist is almost entirely dependent on the annual stocking of hundreds of thousands of hatchery fish.
In 2018, according to the ASF, the Penobscot had 480 large salmon and 289 small salmon return. That run of 769 fish was lower than 2017's 849 returning salmon.

And despite those numbers, the Penobscot is still the crown jewel among U.S. salmon rivers. In the nearby Kennebec, just 11 fish returned in 2018 (compared to 38 in 2017). On the Narraguagus River, fortunes were better, with 42 salmon returning last year, nearly doubling the total from 2017.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 14, 2019, 09:16:45 AM
To save Klamath River salmon, shut down the hatcheries - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-leslie-salmon-hatcheries-klamath-river-20190613-story.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 16, 2019, 09:03:24 AM
For Chinook salmon, the urge to return home and spawn isn't just strong—it's imperative. And for the first time in more than 65 years, at least 23 fish that migrated as juveniles from California's San Joaquin River and into the Pacific Ocean have heeded that call and returned as adults during the annual spring run.


https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/why-everybody-excited-about-23-salmon
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 18, 2019, 15:17:56 PM
Hope you like to eat jellyfish, because they're taking over the oceans

Quote from: undefinedSalmon farmers in Northern Ireland could only stand aghast one autumn morning as they watched their entire stock—100,000 plump Atlantic salmon—wipe out within hours.

The Irish Sea water glowed red that day in 2007 with what the farmers described as "billions" of jellyfish, engulfing a space of 10 square meters, 35 feet deep. The farm's boats practically jammed as they tried to trudge through the throng of unwelcome intruders. Over the following hours, the entire inventory of Northern Ireland's then-only salmon farm, $2 million worth of fish, was obliterated. Some died of stress, many suffocated under the pressure of the battling boats, and the rest were stung to death.

The "mauve stingers," a species native to the warm Mediterranean Sea, weren't supposed to exist at all in the colder British waters, but they followed a now-recurrent pattern—slippery, alien-like blobs without brains, hearts, or blood suddenly mushrooming in population and overrunning the Earth's waters.


https://www.fastcompany.com/90362601/jellyfish-are-booming-because-of-climate-change-and-human-activity
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 23, 2019, 16:33:01 PM
41 years later, a new map of wild Atlantic salmon rivers unveiled | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/wild-atlantic-salmon-federation-north-american-rivers-map-1.5184656

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 05, 2019, 12:47:11 PM
Penobscot River Atlantic salmon return reaches highest level since 2011

QuoteThe Penobscot River is enjoying its most productive Atlantic salmon run in the past decade.

As of Tuesday, 855 salmon had been trapped or counted at the Milford Dam, with another 35 fish trapped on the Stillwater Branch of the river, according to fisheries scientist Jason Valliere of the Maine Department of Marine Resources.

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/07/03/outdoors/penobscot-river-atlantic-salmon-return-reaches-highest-level-since-2011/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 17, 2019, 13:37:12 PM
Three quarters of Fraser sockeye face bottleneck due to rock slide

A system of pressurized tubes known as a "salmon cannon" is among the options being considered to help fish trapped by a rock slide in the Fraser River.


https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/federal-b-c-governments-consider-options-to-help-salmon-blocked-by-landslide
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 20, 2019, 09:28:02 AM
Hydropower without hurting fish runs gets a test

QuoteA Maine company called Ocean renewable Power Co. says its in-river turbines, which look sort of like egg beaters with the axis perpendicular to the river flow, can produce hydropower without requiring dams or interfering with fish runs.

The system will get a test in a tiny Alaska village that's tired of burning diesel for generators but doesn't want to harm the Pacific salmon that go up and down the river in their weird life cycle.

https://granitegeek.concordmonitor.com/2019/07/19/hydropower-without-hurting-fish-runs-gets-a-test/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 22, 2019, 06:17:51 AM
Salmon trapped in Canada landslide to be airlifted to safety https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49066718

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 25, 2019, 14:53:11 PM
Patagonia's movie, "Artifishal," gets a negative review....


Hatchery movie misguided, inaccurate


QuoteNorthwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Outdoor clothing and gear manufacturer Patagonia recently released "Artifishal," a misguided documentary full of misinformation about the role hatcheries play in salmon recovery.

The movie claims that salmon hatcheries are the main cause for the decline of salmon and should be eliminated. But it doesn't present accurate science to back this up.

What we know for certain is that eliminating hatcheries would be the end of salmon fishing for generations. More than half of all the salmon harvested in Western Washington come from hatcheries.

http://www.thevidette.com/opinion/hatchery-movie-misguided-inaccurate/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 29, 2019, 13:04:23 PM
Quotehe confirmed sighting of an invasive fish in the southwest Miramichi River last week lends urgency to plans to eradicate smallmouth bass from a nearby lake.
In 2008, Miramichi Lake was found to contain the bass, which were likely introduced there illegally.

In the 11 years since, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and a number of community conservation groups have operated a program using nets, electrofishing and other methods to prevent the fish from getting out of the 200-hectare lake and into the nearby Miramichi River, where they can do irreparable damage to native wild Atlantic salmon populations.
Over that same period, groups like the Miramichi Salmon Association and the Atlantic Salmon Federation have repeatedly called for a program to eradicate smallmouth bass in the lake by treating it with rotenone, a powdered product made from the dried root of certain bean plants.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/invasive-species-smallmouth-bass-wild-atlantic-salmon-eradicate-rotenone-1.5261532
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Post by: Onslow on September 07, 2019, 07:03:41 AM
"In the never-ending pursuit to drum up alarm over 'Russian' threats, the British press has turned to reporting on an 'invasion' of pink salmon, after about 10 or so of the fish were spotted in UK waters this year.
"An invasive breed of salmon, from Russia, is colonising Britain's rivers and lakes," the Daily Mail declared on Friday, earning a raised eyebrow from the Russian Embassy in London.

"That awkward moment when all other Russian threat theories have failed miserably," the embassy tweeted, with a photo of the Mail's headline.

The Mail did note that the salmon are actually native to Alaska and Canada – wouldn't that make them "American" invaders? – but ended up in Russian rivers in the 1960s, and eventually reached the British isles via Norway.

Seven salmon were recorded in 2017 in the waters of the Coquet, Frome, Hampshire Avon, Humber, Solway, Tyne and Wear, according to the paper. As the Pacific pink salmon has a two-year life cycle, the UK authorities have been on the lookout for them this year, spotting ten so far – including one in Wales and three in Scotland."

https://www.rt.com/uk/468215-pink-salmon-russia-invasion/
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Post by: Aka on September 09, 2019, 12:02:22 PM
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-suspect-heat-stress-as-cause-of-alaskan-salmon-die-offs/70009106
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 09, 2019, 18:55:42 PM
Quote from: Aka on September 09, 2019, 12:02:22 PMhttps://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-suspect-heat-stress-as-cause-of-alaskan-salmon-die-offs/70009106

Not a good sign!
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Post by: Aka on September 13, 2019, 13:35:48 PM
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/bristol-bay-salmon-are-in-hot-water/?fbclid=IwAR13RUjgujntQoEbK_KhhezJTwpmwXswIAeVxMypwScxVrguw-9objq8M20
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 22, 2019, 14:10:48 PM
One of Europe's last untamed rivers is threatened by dams

Under a broad plane tree near Albania's border with Greece, Jorgji Ilia fills a battered flask from one of the Vjosa River's many springs.

http://strib.mn/2W7Tk5B
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 24, 2019, 09:42:10 AM
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/772391421/trump-plan-weakens-protections-for-california-fish-diverts-water-to-farms

QuoteThe Trump administration has announced a plan to divert water to California farmers, fulfilling a campaign promise by the president, but contradicting federal biologists who found the plan would drive endangered salmon closer to extinction and could harm other fish.

Allocating water is always a fraught issue in a state plagued by drought, and there's a lot at stake: irrigation for millions of acres of farmland in the country's biggest agricultural economy, drinking water for two-thirds of Californians from Silicon Valley to San Diego, and the fate of threatened wildlife.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 24, 2019, 09:44:14 AM
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-23/pebble-mine-alaska-salmon

QuoteA Brown bear loped across rolling green tundra as Charles Weimer set down a light, single-engine helicopter on a remote hilltop.

Spooked, the big grizzly vanished into alder thickets above a valley braided with creeks and falls. Weimer's blue eyes scanned warily for more bears. He warned his passenger, Mike Heatwole, to sit tight as the blades spun to a halt, ruffling red, purple and yellow alpine flowers.

The two men, each slim with a goatee, stepped out into the enveloping silence of southwest Alaska's wilderness. Before them stretched two of the wildest river systems left in the United States. Beneath their feet lay the world's biggest known untapped deposit of copper and gold.

Weimer and Heatwole worked for Pebble Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of a Canadian company that aims to dig Pebble Mine, an open pit the size of 460 football fields and deeper than One World Trade Center is tall. To proponents, it's a glittering prize that could yield sales of more than $1 billion a year in an initial two decades of mining.

It could also, critics fear, bring about the destruction of one of the world's great fisheries.

The development would destroy more than 3,400 acres of wetlands and 81 miles of streams. It would straddle Upper Talarik Creek and the Koktuli River, Bristol Bay tributaries known nationally for trophy trout fishing and salmon spawning.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 20, 2019, 12:24:37 PM
QuoteDUBAI - From a control room in the middle of Dubai's desert, Norway's sunrises and sunsets and the cool currents of the Atlantic are recreated for the benefit of thousands of salmon raised in tanks despite searing conditions outside.
Dubai is no stranger to ambitious projects, with a no-limits approach that has seen a palm-shaped island built off its coast, and a full-scale ski slope created inside a shopping mall.
But the farming of salmon in the desert is "something that no one could have imagined", said Bader bin Mubarak, chief executive of Fish Farm. "This is exactly what we're doing in Dubai."
Inside the facility, waters flow and temperatures fluctuate to create the most desirable conditions for the salmon living in four vast tanks.

"We provide for them a sunrise, sunset, tide, a strong current or a simple river current - and we have deep waters and shallow waters," Mubarak said.

Even for a country known for its extravagant ventures, building Fish Farm, located along the southern border of the emirate, was a challenging endeavour.

https://middle-east-online.com/en/only-dubai-salmon-farming-desert
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 22, 2019, 16:15:31 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/07/03/outdoors/penobscot-river-atlantic-salmon-return-reaches-highest-level-since-2011/

QuoteThe Penobscot River is enjoying its most productive Atlantic salmon run in the past decade.
As of Tuesday, 855 salmon had been trapped or counted at the Milford Dam, with another 35 fish trapped on the Stillwater Branch of the river, according to fisheries scientist Jason Valliere of the Maine Department of Marine Resources.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 27, 2019, 10:44:27 AM
Two-thirds of juvenile wild salmon being tracked during their migration from Scottish rivers vanished within the first 60 miles of their journeys, according to new research.

The smolts were tagged as part of the Missing Salmon Project aimed at establishing the reasons for a 70% fall in numbers in the past 25 years.

But preliminary findings have shown two-thirds of the 850 tagged fish perished in the early stages of their
migration from seven rivers in the Moray Firth to the open sea.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/experts-two-thirds-of-migrating-salmon-lost-in-the-first-60-miles/




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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 10, 2020, 12:07:15 PM
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/waterfront/project-makes-way-for-alewives/

QuoteAlewives and Atlantic salmon soon will have an easier time navigating the Dennys River and reaching Meddybemps Lake.
On Monday, Jan. 6, the Downeast Salmon Federation began removing the remains of an unused hydroelectric station that prevents the fish from swimming upstream in the river to spawn.

"The removal of this power station brings us one step closer to restoring the abundant runs of sea-run fish that once abounded in the Dennys River," said Dwayne Shaw, executive director of the Downeast Salmon Federation.
After the federation has removed the generator, turbines and upper portions of the powerhouse, it will reshape the river bottom and banks to improve fish passage.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 12, 2020, 11:13:47 AM
How one man's passion for fly-fishing led to protecting Russian salmon rivers

QuoteSalmon strongholds have in recent years been advanced around the North Pacific as conservation strategies to protect watersheds that are home to healthy wild salmon populations and the larger ecosystems they support. Protecting and maintaining the rivers and wetlands on which salmon depend — where that is still possible — is a much sounder strategy than trying to restore destroyed habitat and endangered fish. In Alaska, we're fortunate to still have free-flowing rivers and the salmon that support our households and economy, although protections vary and do not encompass entire watersheds.

"Stronghold" is the engrossing, well-told story of one man, Guido Rahr, responsible for initiating and advancing the stronghold concept in the North Pacific, particularly on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Beginning with his boyhood adventures at a family fishing cabin on Oregon's Deschutes River, a tributary to the once-salmon-filled Columbia River, the narrative follows Rahr into his fly-fishing passion and devotion to protecting wild salmon and their wild places.


https://www.adn.com/arts/books/2020/01/12/how-one-mans-passion-for-fly-fishing-led-to-protecting-russian-salmon-rivers/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 18, 2020, 12:28:05 PM
The wild salmon leaping to extinction: In just ten years, Britain's premier fishing rivers have seen catches fall from thousands to hundreds. The reason? A toxic cocktail of greed, pollution – and cynical politicians

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7901139/GUY-ADAMS.html

QuoteSome of the hardiest souls in Scotland braved icy winds and showers to attend the opening of the salmon fishing season on the famous Meikleour beat of the River Tay this week.
There was tartan galore, with bagpipers, prayers from a whisky-swilling church minister, free shortbread, and a performance of Caledonia by folk singer Dougie Maclean, who then hopped into a boat to cast the ceremonial first fly of 2020.
Yet one thing was missing from this bracing celebration on Wednesday. Namely: an actual salmon.
Although nearly 80 anglers spent their day flogging the two-mile stretch of swirling water, gaining numb fingers and toes in the process, not a single 'bar of silver' — as the fishing guides (or 'ghillies') often call the larger fish that migrate up the river each spring — ended up on the bank. Nor was a single salmon seen.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 18, 2020, 12:35:10 PM
Grants totaling $3.7 million to support Maine environmental efforts

https://www.thecentersquare.com/maine/grants-totaling-million-to-support-maine-environmental-efforts/article_7d3d0ee0-38a0-11ea-9c41-e36f3f8bfe1f.html

QuoteOther recipients of the funding this year include the Atlantic Salmon Federation, Three Rivers Land Trust, Bangor Land Trust, The Trust for Public Land, 7 Lakes Alliance, York Land Trust, Western Foothills Land Trust, Falmouth Land Trust, Great Works Regional Land Trust, the Maine Department of Transportation, Loon Echo Land Trust, Upper St. John River Organization, the Town of Wells, Royal River Conservation Trust, Orono Land Trust, and the Frenchman Bay Conservancy.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 18, 2020, 12:37:57 PM
Some fascinating findings on salmon migration

QuoteSalmon are known to migrate to feeding grounds in the Atlantic Ocean from the rivers in which they were born.
A question that has remained unanswered for years is: "To get to the ocean, when Salmon descend rivers like the Boyne, do they turn left and migrate anticlockwise around the north coast of Ireland or do they turn right and migrate clockwise around the south coast of our green isle?

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklowpeople/lifestyle/some-fascinating-findings-on-salmon-migration-38870398.html

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 20, 2020, 11:07:35 AM
QuoteThe federal minister in charge of overseeing Canada's fisheries and oceans says that "extensive" remediation efforts are continuing at the the site of a large landslide that cut off salmon from migrating along the Fraser River.

It's been about seven months since the Big Bar landslide first happened, roughly 64 kilometres north of Lillooet. Fisheries and Oceans Canada staff, alongside local First Nations, tirelessly worked to free the fish trapped behind the slide.


https://www.coastmountainnews.com/news/extensive-work-planned-at-big-bar-landslide-ahead-of-salmon-steelhead-migration/#


https://youtu.be/PDSLuiUwcQ8

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 28, 2020, 15:20:51 PM
https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scottish-fish-farm-rejected-after-campaigners-warn-fishermen-could-be-lured-to-their-deaths-by-fairies-1-5079509

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 31, 2020, 11:19:52 AM
A million trees planted to save salmon

QuoteA SCHEME to conserve wild salmon by planting trees on river banks has been launched by the River Dee Trust with the support of the Dee District Salmon Fishery Board.
The £5.5 million project will involve planting a million native trees in one of the biggest nature restoration projects in the Cairngorms.

The trees will help prevent a repetition of the high river temperatures which damaged young salmon stocks on the Upper Dee two years ago, said the trust.
As well as providing nutrition and shelter for all river species, the trees will encourage a wide range of wildlife to thrive and recreate areas of landscape that have been lost for 2000 years.

https://www.fishfarmermagazine.com/news/a-million-trees-planted-to-save-salmon/


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 31, 2020, 11:29:04 AM
Tongass study: Forest fish of Alaska

QuoteA first ever, 10-year study estimates the numbers and values of what the Tongass and Chugach rivers and streams contribute to Alaska's commercial salmon industry.

The Tongass is the largest national forest in the country at nearly 27,000 square miles and covers most of Southeast Alaska. The adjacent Chugach at half the size ranks as the nation's second largest forest and covers the Copper River delta, Prince William Sound, and part of the Kenai Peninsula.

The study results showed that from 2007 to 2016, the two forests contributed 48 million salmon on average each year to commercial fisheries, with a dockside value of $88 million.

These "forest fish" represented 25 percent of Alaska's total salmon catch for decade and 16 percent of the total commercial value.

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/alaska/tongass-study-forest-fish-of-alaska/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 02, 2020, 13:25:45 PM
Scotland's wild salmon threatened by fish farm escapes

QuoteWild salmon have been put under increased pressure by more than 20 incidents of mass escapes of fish from Scottish farms since the start of 2019, experts have warned.

Around 73,000 farmed salmon, each weighing an average of 1.9kg, broke free from their open-net cage near Colonsay during Storm Brendan last month.

Experts estimate the number of escapees is around double how many wild Atlantic salmon return to their home rivers on the west coast of Scotland.

Farmed salmon pose a risk to their wild counterparts as it can lead to inbreeding and the spread of disease.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/wild-salmon-threatened-by-farm-escapes/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 20, 2020, 11:15:29 AM
QuoteLLSWORTH, Maine (WABI) - More than 50 people in Ellsworth Wednesday night talked about ways to keep streams, rivers, and fish safe here in Maine.

The Downeast Chapter for Trout Unlimited is an organization dedicated to protecting and restoring not only coldwater species but also habitat.
Scott Craig is with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
He spoke to the group about restoration efforts in parts of the Narraguagus River.
Atlantic salmon, Arctic char, and brook trout are among species the group wants to help.

https://www.wabi.tv/content/news/Downeast-Trout-Unlimited.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 06, 2020, 11:31:34 AM
Coldwater respite for Sheepscot River migratory fish

QuoteMidcoast Conservancy and Maine Department of Marine Resources staff have been braving the cold waters of the Sheepscot River planting Atlantic salmon eggs this month. These eggs will hatch and turn into small fish, called parr, which will spend one to two years in the river before they journey to the ocean. These efforts are all part of the larger goal of restoring the river to its natural state, where migratory cold water fish can access the spawning grounds they have returned to for thousands of years.

Atlantic salmon travel thousands of miles from their feeding grounds off the coast of Greenland to return to their native rivers to spawn, including the waters of Midcoast Maine. They endure challenges along the way that lower their survival at sea, including pollution, over-harvesting, and impacts of warming waters on their food sources. When they return to freshwater rivers in Maine they stop feeding and rely on only their energy reserves to navigate to their spawning grounds. At this point they require well-oxygenated, cold waters, as do their eggs.

https://www.wiscassetnewspaper.com/article/coldwater-respite-sheepscot-river-migratory-fish/131181
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 15, 2020, 11:05:48 AM
Conservation Groups Will Sue Feds to Stop Massive Timber Sale in Critical Habitat for Snake River Steelhead

QuoteSince time immemorial Pacific salmon and ocean-run steelhead trout have fought their way up the tumultuous waters of the Columbia and Snake Rivers to spawn in the headwater streams that flow west from Idaho's towering snow-capped mountains.  Their vast numbers fed wildlife such as bears and eagles, while sustaining the Indian tribes along the migration route.  But with the damming of the great rivers and destruction of aquatic habitat due to logging, mining, road-building and development, the runs began to dwindle and in 1997 the Snake River Steelhead were listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.

Zoom forward the 23 years since they were listed and the numbers are grim indeed.  Last October a mere 8,182 steelhead made it past the Lower Granite Dam.  Despite the Nez Perce Tribe spending millions to recover the Snake River Steelhead upon which its people have relied for millennia, the on-going habitat destruction sanctioned and committed by the U.S. government has resulted in the lowest number of spawning fish in 25 years — and not even a sliver of traditional pre-dam spawning runs.

Tragically, instead of recovering the steelhead population, Trump's Forest Service has decided to add to the extinction-threatening habitat degradation with another massive deforestation project.  Hiding behind the phony excuse of "forest health," the Lolo Insect & Disease Project would build nearly 14 miles of new roads in the Lolo Creek watershed and log nearly 3,400 acres, including 2,644 acres of clearcuts.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/14/conservation-groups-will-sue-feds-to-stop-massive-timber-sale-in-critical-habitat-for-snake-river-steelhead/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 16, 2020, 13:43:32 PM
QuoteFor probably the first time in nearly 200 years, Atlantic salmon are back in the Ashuelot River's tributaries. The N.H. Fish and Game Department Friday unloaded about 50,000 young salmon into three tributaries of the river. The 2-inch salmon — called fry — will spend about two years in the tributaries, growing big enough to swim to the Ashuelot and Connecticut rivers, then out to the Atlantic Ocean.

https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/this-day-in-history-april-15-2020/article_d21b56a0-568c-5d86-9093-985ab40b71af.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 12, 2020, 08:51:22 AM
Feed starving whales farmed salmon, say scientists
Radical idea that led to an orphaned orca being returned to the wild could help endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales.

https://seawestnews.com/feed-starving-whales-farmed-salmon-say-scientists/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 21, 2020, 10:38:32 AM
Last significant population of wild Atlantic salmon swim the Saco River

QuoteThere are three significant species of fish that migrate up the Saco River in the spring. Atlantic salmon, river herring, and American shad all migrate upriver as adults to spawn in the same stream where they were born.

Many migratory fish species are critically endangered or threatened. Significant causes are man-made barriers, such as dams or sluices or power generation facilities, which disrupt the natural flow of rivers and modify or prevent their usual migratory routes. Pollution, especially prior to the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts of the 1970s, was also a significant driver that led to endangering and threatening these species. It's important to keep our river clean.

In fact, the last significant remaining wild Atlantic salmon populations in the United States are found only in Maine. In order to address this challenge of making hydropower while allowing safe fish passage, a variety of methods to ease fish migration upstream
have been developed.[quo

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/05/21/last-significant-population-of-wild-atlantic-salmon-swim-the-saco-river/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 03, 2020, 11:03:40 AM
An Atlantic salmon returned to the Penobscot in May. Here's what this rare occurrence means.

>>>Atlantic salmon are returning to the Penobscot River at a steady pace thus far. Fisheries staffers from the Maine Department of Marine Resources said the 176 salmon that have been counted thus far are the fifth most to have reached the counting facility by May 29 in the 42 years that salmon have been counted on the river.

Among those fish was a rarity: A male that was making a return trip to the river to spawn.

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/06/03/outdoors/an-atlantic-salmon-returned-to-the-penobscot-in-may-heres-what-this-rare-occurrence-means/


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 07, 2020, 08:06:38 AM
https://youtu.be/I6GIvmSLXXI


Climate change is cooking salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest

>>>The Tulalip Indian Reservation sits on the east side of the Puget Sound, about 40 miles north of Seattle, Washington, where the change in seasons is marked by the arrival and departure of salmon. At the heart of the reservation is Tulalip Bay, where salmon return every spring and fall before swimming upstream to spawn.

http://redgreenandblue.org/2020/06/06/climate-change-cooking-salmon-rivers-pacific-northwest-video/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 09, 2020, 14:44:38 PM
Last Call; Saving Atlantic Salmon


>>> Will wild native Atlantic salmon go the way of the passenger pigeon, or will we be able to bring them back from the brink of extinction as we did the bald eagle, our National Bird, or bison, our National Mammal? As the lights dim on the "King of Fish," we must ask ourselves, are we doing everything we can to prevent the loss of the nation's iconic Atlantic salmon? The answer, sadly, is no....

https://midcurrent.com/conservation/last-call-saving-the-nations-atlantic-salmon-from-extinction/
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Post by: troutrus on June 09, 2020, 19:44:25 PM
"For roughly eighty years, longer than most who are reading this have been alive, the first Atlantic salmon caught in America each season was delivered to the President of the United States. The first fish went to President Taft in 1912, and the last, befittingly, to part-time Maine resident and avid Atlantic salmon angler President George H. Bush in 1992."

Current classless white house resident is satisfied with a pollock samich from Mickey D's.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 12, 2020, 14:01:12 PM
As salmon dwindle in LaHave River, calls grow for DFO to focus on St. Marys River

>>>Absolutely right, there's salmon in this river. There's salmon all through this river," said Scott Beaver of the St. Mary's River Association.

"We see them, we see them under the bridges, we see them jumping in the evenings. They are in the estuary now. With low water right now, there's a run ready to come up. We know they're there."

Finding out how many adult salmon return to spawn is key to understanding whether the population is healthy enough to reopen the river to salmon angling, which is one of the association's goals.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dfo-salmon-lahave-river-angling-fishing-ban-st-marys-river-1.5608780
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 15, 2020, 15:52:37 PM
Saving Canada's wild salmon: rescuers pin hopes on fish ladder and salmon cannon

>>>en Gord Sterritt walked to the dusty edge of a cliff in western Canada last summer, he saw a disaster unfolding in the frothy waters below. In December 2018, a natural landslide had caused large chunks of rock to fall from the steep canyon walls that hem in the northern sections of British Columbia's Fraser River.

The crashing boulders – 75,000 cubic metres of rock – created an impassable barrier. But because of the remote location, the damage wasn't discovered until the following June: just as millions of wild Pacific salmon were beginning to spawn up the river.

"When I saw it, I realised what we were up against," said Sterritt. "The magnitude was just ... awe-inspiring. And not in a good way."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/15/canada-wild-salmon-fish-ladder-salmon-cannon-british-columbia-aoe

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 16, 2020, 10:36:00 AM
http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26066/20200616/canadas-wild-pacific-salmon-decline-facing-aftermath-landslide.htm


https://youtu.be/2z3ZyGlqUkA

>>>Fish ladder and salmon cannon to the rescue
Fortunately, the fish ladder and salmon cannon have brought much-needed hope to the rescue operation this year. The terrace ladder is being built to allow salmon to travel through channels of water flowing slower than the river.

According to the maker of the device, Whooshh Innovations, the transported salmon will then be gently deposited back into the water, past the boulders in the river.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 17, 2020, 15:46:33 PM
The River Rambler Episode 24

>>>I'm joined by Greg Fitz this week, and we had a great talk. We go over how he got into fishing, the joys of boats, writing a novel and the work he's doing with the Wild Steelhead Coalition.

Listen to "Episode 24 - Greg Fitz" on Spreaker.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 19, 2020, 11:02:22 AM
>>>BELLINGHAM, Wash. – A dam on the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River will soon come down, allowing the river to flow freely for the first time in almost 60 years.

https://kgmi.com/news/007700-dam-on-nooksack-river-to-be-removed/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 20, 2020, 21:16:44 PM
Fish are thriving in the Penobscot as shad returns shatter record

>>> Each spring and summer for more than 40 years, anglers and conservationists have turned their attention to the Penobscot River at this time of year as they wonder how many Atlantic salmon will return as part of the annual run.


https://bangordailynews.com/2020/06/19/outdoors/penobscot-shad-returns-shatter-record/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 27, 2020, 10:16:21 AM
Report finds historic low for numbers of large wild Atlantic salmon


>>>A group advocating for the conservation of wild Atlantic salmon says the number of adult salmon returning to North America rivers fell to near historic lows last year.

The Atlantic Salmon Federation's annual "State of Wild Atlantic Salmon Report" released today indicates returns for large salmon were the third lowest in the past five decades.

The federation says there has been a "continuing a downward trend that threatens the sustainability of the species."

The group's scientists estimate 103,900 large salmon returned to the 86 rivers studied in 2019, down from estimates of about 131,800 the year before.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/atlantic-salmon-low-1.5626825
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 10, 2020, 14:16:24 PM
>>> After a decades long battle on Washington State's Elwha River, a coalition of environmentalists, scientists and locals succeeded in having two dams demolished. Six years later, scientists are monitoring the river and larger ecosystem as they recover from a century of abuse. And one of the best ways to do the research? Snorkeling Class III whitewater.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dirtbag-diaries/id218290471?i=1000484018766
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Post by: Aka on July 13, 2020, 15:38:49 PM
https://youtu.be/9xSISeNR1ro

https://inletkeeper.org/2020/07/13/chinook-salmon-declines-related-to-changes-in-freshwater-conditions/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 14, 2020, 10:25:58 AM
>>>Outdoor journalist Kris Millgate spent a decade in TV news before starting her own production company, Tight Line Media, in 2006. With a quarter century of multimedia storytelling, Millgate traverses the country in search of dynamic topics, researching issues thoroughly then translating core elements via video, photo and words with credibility.

Her latest project is an immersive experience which will keep her on the roads, and streams, of the Pacific Northwest all summer long.

"Ocean to Idaho" debuts on social media platforms this summer. The multimedia experience offers audiences the opportunity to track the journey of migrating salmon from — as the title implies — the Pacific Ocean to the Salmon River in central Idaho, an 1,368-kilometre journey.


https://www.thestar.com/life/relationships/2020/07/10/ocean-to-idaho-follows-migration-of-salmon-from-pacific-to-central-idaho-through-immersive-social-media-campaign.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 16, 2020, 08:59:51 AM
Warm water doesn't deter Atlantic salmon as Penobscot count tops 1,300

>>>The water in the Penobscot River has been about 80 degrees Fahrenheit for the past few weeks — a level that's less than optimal for Atlantic salmon — but the run of migrating fish is still the best in nine years, with 1,369 salmon being counted as of Monday, July 13.

Over the past two weeks, despite those warm water temperatures, 329 salmon have been counted according to Jason Valliere, a marine resource scientist for the Maine Department of Marine Resources' Division of Sea Run Fisheries and Habitat. That's an average of 15.6 fish per day.


https://bangordailynews.com/2020/07/15/outdoors/warm-water-doesnt-deter-atlantic-salmon-as-penobscot-count-tops-1300/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 16, 2020, 09:01:36 AM
Eco-project boost for the River Calder and Atlantic salmon

>>>Spawning grounds on a River Spey tributary for Atlantic salmon are to be improved thanks to a £192,000 funding boost from Scottish Natural Heritage.

The Spey Catchment Initiative (SCI) is delighted that their project for the River Calder above Newtonmore has received the away from SNH's Biodiversity Challenge Fund.

https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/spawning-grounds-on-a-river-spey-tributary-for-atlantic-salmon-are-to-be-improved-thanks-to-a-192-000-funding-boost-206015/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 17, 2020, 11:34:50 AM
PCSWCD joins as partner on the Maine Aquatic Connectivity Restoration Project


>>> The project is supported by a collaboration of 26 tribal, state, federal, nonprofit and private landowners, and covers 25,255 square miles of project area, including the last endangered Atlantic salmon-listed watersheds in the U.S. and critical Eastern brook trout habitat. The overall goal is to restore aquatic organism passage to at least 50 miles of stream, brook and river habitat.

https://observer-me.com/2020/07/16/news/pcswcd-joins-as-partner-on-the-maine-aquatic-connectivity-restoration-project/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 17, 2020, 11:40:59 AM
How Constructing Enormous 'Log Jams' Is Saving a Native Salmon
For the Quinault Indian Nation, restoring their fisheries is a multi-generation project.


https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/salmon-restoration-project-quinault
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 27, 2020, 14:09:51 PM
How climate change is leading to 'a redistribution of life on Earth'

Scientists say more than 12,000 species experiencing 'range shift'

acific salmon used to be so unfamiliar in Arctic waters that many communities don't have local words for the fish, and there are stories of harvesters feeding them to their dogs.

But in recent years, chum, pink and sockeye salmon have been showing up in so many fishing nets that Fisheries and Oceans Canada has been keeping track.

Michelle Gruben works at the Hunters and Trappers Committee (HTC) in Aklavik, N.W.T., a small community near the Mackenzie delta on the Beaufort Sea, collecting salmon from harvesters in order to pass them on to scientists with the Arctic Salmon project.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/how-climate-change-is-leading-to-a-redistribution-of-life-on-earth-1.5661871


check out the podcast in the above link...
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 27, 2020, 14:12:49 PM
Debate surrounding hydroelectric dam continues in N.B.

>>>HALIFAX -- There is renewed debate concerning the future of Canada's oldest hydroelectric dam. While environmental groups are calling for the removal of the Milltown Dam in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, others say the facility is an important part of the economic and social fabric of the international border area.

Community leaders say the Milltown Dam, which sits alongside the St. Croix River, straddling New Brunswick and Maine, has been an integral piece of the border region since the 1800's when it began generating electricity.

"Well, it just started the community," says St. Stephen Mayor Allan MacEachern. "The town just built around that dam. It provided a service for the community, and it grew from there."


https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/debate-surrounding-hydroelectric-dam-continues-in-n-b-1.5039146
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 29, 2020, 10:41:22 AM
Eavesdropping on trout building their nests
Seismic sensors can record signals produced by fish building spawning pits


Steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) stir up the sediment of the river bed when building their spawning pits, thus influencing the composition of the river bed and the transport of sediment. Until now, this process could only be studied visually, irregularly and with great effort in the natural environment of the fish. Now, researchers led by Michael Dietze of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam have used seismic sensors (geophones) to analyze the trout's nest-building process in detail. The study was published in the journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200728113627.htm

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 29, 2020, 10:46:53 AM
https://thepublicsradio.org/article/california-indian-tribe-gets-back-big-sur-ancestral-lands


>>>A Native American tribe has reclaimed a small part of ancestral lands on California's Big Sur coast that were lost to Spanish colonial settlement nearly 250 years ago. The Mercury News reports the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County closed escrow on 1,199 acres about 5 miles inland from the ocean that was part of a $4.5 million deal involving the state and the Western Rivers Conservancy. It marks the first restoration of any lands to the tribe, which lost 90% of its approximately 1,000 members to disease and other causes by the early 1800s. The land encompasses old-growth redwoods, oak woodlands, meadows and endangered steelhead trout.

https://thepublicsradio.org/article/california-indian-tribe-gets-back-big-sur-ancestral-lands
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 29, 2020, 11:11:54 AM
The Old Man and the New Sea
Three generations of the Hamada family have fished British Columbia's coast. Will the latest generation outlive the salmon they seek?


>>>s her fisher husband, Satoshi, bustled around their small apartment preparing to leave for the dock, June Hamada knew she was about to give birth to her first child. But on that warm July morning in 1965 she kept her contractions to herself.

It was, after all, a Monday.

After a Fraser River commercial fishery has been closed for multiple days, the first set opens on Monday at 8:00, says Satoshi. "That's the most important set. The first set is always a lot of fish."

"I knew there was a major catch that day," says June, "so, I really didn't want to stop him."

She waited for her husband to leave their home in Marpole—a neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, just blocks from the Fraser River—before calling her brother to take her to the hospital.

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-old-man-and-the-new-sea/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 01, 2020, 10:22:22 AM
Atlantic Salmon returning to Maine river after dam removals


>>>Atlantic Salmon are returning to the Penobscot river in the US state of Maine after the administration removed several dams on the river's watershed and made other improvements for the fishes' passage.

A total of 1,426 Atlantic Salmon returned to the river this year to spawn, Maine's Department of Marine Resources reported July 28, 2020, according to a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fisheries wing.

This figure is higher when compared to the 1,076 fishes that returned in 2019 and 248 that returned in 2014.

The administration has removed 15 dams in the river's watershed since 2010, including two large ones on the river itself.


https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/global-eco-watch-atlantic-salmon-returning-to-maine-river-after-dam-removals-72608
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 02, 2020, 10:20:24 AM
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18621578.new-disease-casts-doubt-future-atlantic-salmon/

>>>The king of fish, the sleek and silvery wild Atlantic salmon, is under threat from a mystery skin condition which has baffled scientists.

Salmon displaying signs of an unusual red skin disease have been found in Scottish rivers, sparking fears over how it might impact on wild stocks affected by years of significant decline.

A call has now gone out to Scottish anglers to help identify cases of the condition and to pass on details of affected fish to authorities in the hope that a cause can be found.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18621578.new-disease-casts-doubt-future-atlantic-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 06, 2020, 09:15:35 AM
Salmon foundation provides funding for habitat rehab


>>>The Pacific Salmon Foundation is supporting 16 projects focused on habitat rehabilitation, education and improving stock numbers on southern Vancouver Island.

Grant money from the non-profit foundation totals $238,056 through its community salmon program. The total value of the projects, which includes community fundraising, contributions and volunteer time, is $1.48 million.

https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/salmon-foundation-provides-funding-for-habitat-rehab-1.24180612
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 06, 2020, 09:27:18 AM
New fish trap on White River can handle 1 million salmon a year, biggest facility in nation

>>>WHITE RIVER — They were impaled and exhausted, weakened, or left dying in waves: pink salmon by the thousands, defeated by a nearly 80-year-old fish trap and dam on this waterway that also harmed spring chinook, the prize diet of endangered southern resident killer whales.

But no more. At the insistence of tribes and federal fisheries managers, the Army Corps of Engineers will soon complete the biggest facility of its kind in North America, to capture and transport salmon to free flowing stretches of the White River, a tributary of the Puyallup.

Big as an aircraft carrier and made of enough concrete to pave a mile and a quarter of Interstate 5, the White River Fish Passage Facility is expected to be completed in October. The $131 million facility includes a complex of gates, chutes, a fish ladder and even a pair of gleaming stainless steel augers pretty as an art piece, custom-made by J. Nelson Enterprises metalworks in Orting. The augers will lift fish into flumes that carry them to trucks for the 12-mile ride from the fish collection facility at Buckley, where they will be released back to the river above Mud Mountain Dam near Enumclaw, to spawn.


https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/northwest/new-fish-trap-on-white-river-can-handle-1-million-salmon-a-year-biggest-facility/article_9003e46f-ff0f-508a-94f5-1814a2e942b8.html

Washington fish trap opens on White River in October, will be largest in U.S.

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>>>The augers at the facility will lift fish into flumes that carry them to trucks for a 12-mile drive up the river, where they will be released back to the river to spawn. It will be located near the Mud Mountain Dam along the White River in Pierce County.

The 400-foot dam was built in 1948 to prevent flooding to the roughly 400,000 houses and businesses along the White and Puyallup river valleys in western Washington. Adult fish are unable to penetrate the dam, which requires officials to physically move them in order to maintain the ecology.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article244689382.html



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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 06, 2020, 11:07:19 AM
First sockeye of 2020 arrives at the Sawtooth Basin, run likely larger than last year

>>>STANLEY — The first sockeye of 2020, a naturally produced female, returned July 31 to Redfish Lake Creek trap near Stanley, and a second arrived Aug. 2. The two are among the 412 sockeye that crossed Lower Granite Dam through Aug. 2 and signals a substantially larger return to Idaho than last year.

This year's sockeye return appears to be slightly later than usual, and fishery managers expect more fish will cross Lower Granite, which is the last dam the fish cross before reaching Idaho. Based on historical conversion rates between Lower Granite and the Sawtooth Basin, if no more fish crossed the dam, about 124 to 165 sockeye would return to the basin this year and likely surpass the last two year's returns.

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https://magicvalley.com/outdoors/first-sockeye-of-2020-arrives-at-the-sawtooth-basin-run-likely-larger-than-last-year/article_b9987b82-3dd1-5fd4-9971-1fad21e13c9b.html

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 08, 2020, 10:07:18 AM
Weird this is a west coast area taking about Atlantic salmon runs;

Record number of wild Atlantic salmon counted at Corner Brook station

http://ntv.ca/record-number-of-wild-atlantic-salmon-counted-at-corner-brook-station/


There's some encouraging news this evening about salmon stocks on the west coast.

A record number of wild atlantic salmon have been recorded at a counting station in Corner Brook – which indicates conservation is working.



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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 08, 2020, 10:08:59 AM
Back in scotland...

>>> WORK has started to install fish passes on two weirs in Leeds, as part of a multi-million pound project to enable salmon to swim up the River Aire for the first time in 150 years.

Contractors for the Environment Agency have moved on-site at Armley and Newley weirs on the River Aire.

Work on fish passes at Saltaire and Kirkstall weirs is almost complete. These four fish passes, along with a three-year community engagement programme, together make up the Developing the Natural Aire (DNAire) project.

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/18636454.next-step-starts-get-salmon-river-aire/
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Post by: jwgnc on August 08, 2020, 10:46:53 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 08, 2020, 10:07:18 AMWeird this is a west coast area taking about Atlantic salmon runs;

Newfoundland.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 10, 2020, 11:22:45 AM
They kill wild Atlantics in Ireland

Wild Salmon Returning in "Record" Numbers - But Expert Urges Caution

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>>>Wild Atlantic salmon are returning in "record" numbers to rivers along the Atlantic seaboard, according to fishery managers.

As The Sunday Times reports, Inland Fisheries Ireland regional director Francis O'Donnell says this year's season appears to have "bucked the trend".

Mr O'Donnell, who has responsibility for the western river basin district, said there were high numbers of healthy fish on Galway's Corrib system, Mayo's River Moy and Ballisodare in Sligo

https://afloat.ie/watersport/angling/item/47226-wild-salmon-returning-in-record-numbers-but-expert-urges-caution

IFI is deploying extra patrols to detect poaching, and inspecting premises ashore, he said. Fish are believed to be fetching between 50 euro and 90 euro per salmon.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 10, 2020, 11:29:57 AM
Bears alert scientists to secret salmon streams

>>>Right now, on the brushy tundra of northern Alaska, grizzly bears are gathering at quiet streams and rivers, attracted by the largest calorie reward they can find — spawning salmon.

Until recently, scientists did not know salmon swam up some of these waterways, nor that grizzlies were fattening up on them before entering hibernation.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2020/08/08/bears-alert-scientists-to-secret-salmon-streams/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 12, 2020, 10:31:25 AM





B.C. Wildlife Federation fights back over Thompson steelhead populations


>>>A member of the B.C. Wildlife Federation is criticizing the lack of transparency with Fisheries and Oceans Canada as endangered steelhead populations in the Thompson and Chilcotin Rivers continue to decline.

Jesse Zeman, director of fish and wildlife restoration with the conservation organization, addressed a House of Commons standing committee on Fisheries and Oceans, online, July 23. The video has since been shared on the federation's Facebook page.

Zeman outlined that Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead populations have been in decline since the 1990s which he said is due to the fish being caught in nets intended for pink and chum salmon. At that time, there were around 3,000 to 4,000 spawners, he said. There were 62 Thompson and 134 Chilcotin fish counted this year, he told the committee.

https://infotel.ca/newsitem/bc-wildlife-federation-fights-back-over-thompson-steelhead-populations/it75917
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 21, 2020, 07:29:57 AM
Alaska's salmon are getting smaller, affecting people and ecosystems

>>>For years, people in Alaska have been noticing that wild salmon were getting smaller, but the reasons have been unclear. In the new study, published August 19 in Nature Communications, researchers compiled and analyzed data collected over six decades (1957 to 2018) from 12.5 million fish by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This unprecedented dataset enabled them to see patterns of body size changes for four species of salmon—Chinook, chum, coho, and sockeye—across all regions of Alaska.

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-alaska-salmon-smaller-affecting-people.html

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 21, 2020, 11:44:40 AM
A Glimmer Of Hope

>>>A recent study by scientists from the Woods Hole Fisheries Center has given a glimmer of hope for the survival of Atlantic salmon. Julie Nieland of the Woods Hole Center and Tim Sheehan found that if salmon can get past dams, they not only get to spawning grounds but they also have access to higher-quality habitat and therefore produce more young, or smolts. In other words, the farther salmon are able to run into a watershed, the more prolific they are.


https://www.capenews.net/falmouth/opinion/a-glimmer-of-hope---editorial/article_ea9546cf-f15b-5dac-bf3c-73ec408c3b70.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 23, 2020, 09:47:39 AM
Thousands of deformed escapee salmon could be in any Ayrshire river


>>>It is reported that three cages holding as many as 165,000 fish ruptured off the coast of Arran yesterday.

Fisheries Management Scotland, the representative body for Scotland's District Salmon Fishery Boards and Fisheries Trusts, said they anticipated that a 'significant numbers of adult' salmon may have escaped.

Anglers across Ayrshire have been warned to report any obviously farmed salmon to the Ayrshire Rivers Trust.


The farmed fish are identifiable because of deformed or shortened features such as their fins, gill covers and snouts


https://www.ardrossanherald.com/news/18668287.hundreds-deformed-escapee-salmon-ayrshire-river/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 23, 2020, 09:50:36 AM
Salmon loss fear at farm after storm

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>>>Stormy weather has caused anchors at a salmon farm to break free from the seabed.

The site is estimated to contain 500,000 fish and pictures which emerged yesterday suggest at least three of the ten pens were damaged.

He said: "For wild Scottish Atlantic salmon on the west coast of Scotland this is the ecological equivalent of an oil tanker running aground.".

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/salmon-loss-fear-at-farm-after-storm-7cvsfcwqv
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 23, 2020, 09:58:11 AM
FYI

>>Around 4.7 million fish have escaped from Chilean salmon farms in 73 incidents between 2010 and 2020, according to a report from state aquaculture agency, Sernapesca.

https://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/search_brief.asp?l=e&id=109009&ndb=1
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 23, 2020, 10:36:38 AM
Joy riders 'threaten' salmon, call goes out to ban jet boats on upper Pitt River
Concerns have been raised about the potential for damage to sensitive salmon habitat north of Coquitlam, but DFO enforcement manager says he has to catch jetboaters in the act

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>>>She's added her voice to concerns raised by Dan Gerak, who owns the Pitt River Lodge and guides recreational fishermen on the upper Pitt River. Both have tried to get politicians, media, Department of Fisheries and Transport Canada to take note of what they see is a growing problem of jet boaters speeding in shallow waters.

Gerak told the Tri-City News he's getting increasingly frustrated with jet boaters who he says get too close to the gravel areas where the eggs are laid, and the pressure from the jet engine "kills off the eggs," They could be responsible for killing juvenile smolts by their wash.

Their concerns have been brought to the attention of Art Demsky, detachment commander of the DFO Conservation and Protection Branch in Langley.

Demsky, whose officers make patrols via helicopter and boat, looking for people who don't release the fish they catch, said he is aware of the issue.

https://www.tricitynews.com/news/joy-riders-threaten-salmon-call-goes-out-to-ban-jet-boats-on-upper-pitt-river-1.24190424
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 23, 2020, 11:50:56 AM
Steelhead Rescue mission


>>>Biologist Ryan Battleson bounds down the slippery bedrock of the East Fork of Evans Creek on a rescue mission for which steelhead anglers four years from now may thank him.

Armed with a net and a plastic bucket, Battleson stops at a small, isolated pool where infant wild steelhead and even threatened coho salmon are likely trapped, unable to fin either upstream to cooler confines or downstream to better flows.

"We have tons of these isolated pools that probably won't make it to the end of the week," says Battleson, from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. "There's steelhead in there, and they're not getting out of here on their own."

Battleson runs the light-mesh net through the pool and, sure enough, he captures a handful of steelhead not quite two inches long.

"Let's get them out of here and get them somewhere where they can make it through the summer," he says.

https://mailtribune.com/oregon-outdoors/rescue-mission-08-20-2020

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Post by: troutrus on August 23, 2020, 14:09:23 PM
Yep. Fish farming is the future, and many recreational groups have been convinced to support it under the guise of protecting wild populations, when in fact it will likely lead to the demise of wild strains in many instances.
https://theferret.scot/formaldehyde-pesticide-fish-farms-lochs/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 23, 2020, 15:25:10 PM
Quote from: troutrus on August 23, 2020, 14:09:23 PMYep. Fish farming is the future, and many recreational groups have been convinced to support it under the guise of protecting wild populations, when in fact it will likely lead to the demise of wild strains in many instances.
https://theferret.scot/formaldehyde-pesticide-fish-farms-lochs/



how depressing...
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 25, 2020, 12:18:13 PM



Salmon find their way home to P.E.I. river

>>>After decades of absence, Atlantic Salmon are back in the Miminegash River.

Danny Murphy is the co-ordinator for the Roseville/ Miminegash Watersheds Inc., a non-profit group that takes care of some of the rivers and streams in western P.E.I.

Murphy has volunteered with the group since 2007 and has worked as the co-ordinator for the last 12 years. He's also an avid angler. In the fall of 2018, he caught a fish he didn't recognize.


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https://www.wellandtribune.ca/ts/news/canada/2020/08/24/salmon-find-their-way-home-to-pei-river.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 27, 2020, 10:20:20 AM
Idaho steelhead run better than last year

>>>In Idaho,steelhead harvest season usually opens Sept. 1 in the Snake and Salmon rivers with a daily harvest of three fish, although restrictive measures over the past few years have shortened seasons and lowered limits.

Restrictions are meant to ensure that enough fish return to hatcheries. In addition Fish and Game monitors the number of wild steelhead in the system.

"This year we are forecasting that around 17,000 wild steelhead will pass over Lower Granite Dam," DuPont said. "Although we would like to see more, this forecast is better than we have seen the previous four years which is a good sign. With this wild steelhead forecast, impacts from our sport fisheries will not be an issue."

https://cdapress.com/news/2020/aug/27/idaho-steelhead-run-better-last-year/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 31, 2020, 13:31:39 PM
Walbridge fire damages half of prime salmon, steelhead spawning grounds, experts say

>>>In burning to the edge of Lake Sonoma, the Walbridge fire has posed an unprecedented threat to the water supply for 600,000 North Bay residents and scorched Sonoma County streams that are critical to the revival of imperiled fish.

Rural residents and environmentalists also are concerned the miles of bulldozer tracks left by firefighters — an essential tool in the ongoing battle against the 55,000-acre fire — could contribute to post-fire erosion, water pollution and possible mudslides when winter rains fall on barren ground.

Experts estimated that half of the spawning habitat on Russian River tributaries has been burned, dealing a potential setback to expensive, longstanding efforts to bolster the coho salmon and steelhead trout populations.

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https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/walbridge-fire-damages-half-of-prime-salmon-steelhead-spawning-grounds-ex/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 02, 2020, 11:57:10 AM
Judge Blames Corps For Pushing Pacific Salmon To 'Brink Of Extinction'


>>>A federal judge, granting summary judgment in favor of a lawsuit filed in 2018 by environmentalists, said the Corps of Engineers is years behind on efforts to mitigate dams and river structures along the Willamette River to aid Upper Willamette River (UWR) Chinook and steelhead salmon, and its failures are pushing them "to the brink of extinction." The judge ordered the Corps to speed up its efforts, but it's not clear what effect the ruling will have. The Corps doesn't comment on ongoing litigation.

https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2020/09/01/judge-blames-corps-for-pushing-pacific-salmon-to-brink-of-extinction/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 02, 2020, 12:05:34 PM

Threatened Steelhead Trout Relocated To Make Way For Anderson Dam Retrofit




https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/08/31/threatened-steelhead-trout-relocated-to-make-way-for-anderson-dam-retrofit/
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Post by: Aka on September 08, 2020, 16:28:18 PM
Fuck Pebble Mine.

https://vimeo.com/192552463?fbclid=IwAR2h2AMhapjjuFKq6qy7LPk0uFJ30nroGMnUcynVjSsW6SYEDS8562pO0Zo
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Post by: troutrus on September 08, 2020, 17:11:52 PM
Quote from: Aka on September 08, 2020, 16:28:18 PMFuck Pebble Mine.

https://vimeo.com/192552463?fbclid=IwAR2h2AMhapjjuFKq6qy7LPk0uFJ30nroGMnUcynVjSsW6SYEDS8562pO0Zo

Beautiful videos. I particularly like the one entitled "The Last Chase" with the bears and seals munching on the Reds in the lake.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 09, 2020, 10:19:55 AM
Midcoast Conservancy adds to Whitefield Salmon Preserve

>>>WHITEFIELD MAINE— At the end of August, Midcoast Conservancy purchased a high priority 27.7-acre addition to its Whitefield Salmon Preserve from Ellis Percy and JoAnn Tribby.

"We're very glad to partner with Midcoast Conservancy to protect this land so that both the people and wildlife of Whitefield will be able to continue to enjoy this beautiful place," said Percy, in a news release. "That means a great deal to us."

Part of the property was already in a conservation easement held by Midcoast Conservancy that included much of the 1.7-mile Sheepscot West Branch trail, created and maintained in partnership by the Whitefield Trails Committee.

"We are so glad that Midcoast Conservancy was able to forever protect the entire property containing this lovely trail loop, open to the public for hiking, snowshoeing, and skiing," said David Elliott, of Whitefield Trails Committee.

https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/midcoast-conservancy-adds-whitefield-salmon-preserve/138398
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 09, 2020, 10:25:57 AM
Valley Water Relocates Threatened Steelhead to Keep Them Safe From Dam Retrofit

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>>>When a team of 18 biologists in mid-August rescued threatened Central California Coast steelhead trout in Coyote Creek, the magnitude of the feat wasn't lost on anyone involved.

Least of all on Clayton Leal.

"This was a first-of-its-kind thing .... conducted by Valley Water," the senior water resource specialist told San Jose Inside in a recent interview. "I'm not really familiar with anything else done at this level for any other species. This was a major effort that had consultants involved as well."

https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/valley-water-relocates-threatened-steelhead-to-keep-them-safe-from-dam-retrofit/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 09, 2020, 10:34:46 AM
MAD RIVER BREWING COMPANY LAUNCHES NEW LABEL FOR FLAGSHIP ALE

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https://kymkemp.com/2020/09/08/mad-river-brewing-company-launches-new-label-for-flagship-ale/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 09, 2020, 10:42:12 AM
https://vimeo.com/414672565

https://ak.audubon.org/conservation/tongass-national-forest
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 09, 2020, 15:47:46 PM
Watch Red Gold on Vimeo

https://t.e2ma.net/click/howsid/1j2diih/5i45hp
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 18, 2020, 09:47:01 AM
Fish in Oregon hatcheries die, including Leaburg, released early as fires rage

>>>About 450,000 fish perished at two hatcheries combined and nearly 1.2 million chinook, steelhead and trout were released into the McKenzie River east of Eugene all at once in desperation as the fire approached and fresh water to the facility was cut off. Other hatcheries lost critical infrastructure, including a hatchery building near the Oregon-California border, and one facility went ahead with a critical breeding period while running on limited power from a back-up generator.

https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2020/09/17/fish-oregon-hatcheries-die-released-early-fires-rage/3487189001/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 19, 2020, 08:26:54 AM
Fears rise for Fraser River salmon after Pier Park fire delivers another blow

>>>There are growing concerns about the environmental fallout from a fire Sunday that destroyed New Westminster's Pier Park.

The fire consumed a six-acre section of the pier spewing toxic smoke into the air for days, choking the skies over the riverfront, putting toxins into the river from creosote infused pilings at the foot of the pier at a key time when salmon are returning to the Fraser River to spawn.

When Jason Hwang first saw the smoke, he says the struggling Fraser River salmon populations were his first thought.

"The [2020] Fraser sockeye return is probably the worst return in modern history," said Hwang, a biologist with the Pacific Salmon Foundation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pier-park-fire-contamination-salmon-creosote-smoke-booms-1.5730024
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 20, 2020, 09:51:49 AM
Researchers Attach Cameras to Pacific Northwest Orcas, Revealing a Marvelous Underwater World


http://www.chronline.com/northwest_regional_news/researchers-attach-cameras-to-pacific-northwest-orcas-revealing-a-marvelous-underwater-world/article_0756816e-fa9e-11ea-992e-4fdaad0a37db.html

>>>For nearly a month the team has been at sea, marveling at the prowess of southern and northern resident killer whales as they follow the orcas' foraging rounds, using a drone and stick-on cameras to record the daily lives of orcas, even underwater.

The surprises keep coming: How far the orcas, especially the southern residents, travel in their hunt for salmon. How affectionate the orca families are with one another, constantly touching. And their incredible athleticism, as orcas hunt down and kill their prey.

"They are really efficient fish slayers," said Andrew Trites, head of the Marine Mammal Research Unit at the University of British Columbia. He is leading this team on a monthlong research trip with eight others packed aboard the Gikumi, a 1954 wooden work boat.

By day 27, the team has tracked the whales from the northernmost end of Vancouver Island to its southern tip; along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and out to the open ocean and back in their quest to get to this truth: Are the orcas getting enough to eat while in their core summer foraging ground?

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 22, 2020, 08:15:32 AM
Eat jellyfish instead of fish and chips to save endangered species, scientists say

Conservationists revealed that close to a hundred endangered species, caught in oceans around the world, have ended up on diner's plates

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Scientists have found jellyfish to be rich in vitamin B12, magnesium, iron, and low in calories.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/21/eat-jellyfish-instead-fish-chips-save-endangered-species-scientists/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 24, 2020, 11:10:27 AM
Plans laid for dam removal in Whychus Creek

Barrier removals open up 38 miles of stream for fish

>>>For Chinook salmon heading upstream in Whychus Creek in search of prime spawning grounds, the journey is about to become much easier.

Work is underway to remove the Plainview Dam, a barrier that for decades prevented fish from migrating to the farthest reaches of Whychus Creek.

Work to remove the dam started earlier this month and was planned for completion by late October. The recent fires and smoke impacting Oregon temporarily halted the project, but organizers remain hopeful the work to remove the dam can resume this fall, according to Kris Knight, executive director of the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, which is leading and managing the project.

https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/environment/plans-laid-for-dam-removal-in-whychus-creek/article_31374fa4-f940-11ea-8d7d-53c029ff3bd3.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 24, 2020, 11:28:39 AM
Plan to use fish killer rotenone in N.B. lake, river delayed by environmental assessment

>>Salmon conservation groups are now watching the clock as invasive smallmouth bass, already known to have arrived in the Miramichi River, approach spawning age.

A plan to eradicate the invasive fish this month by spraying the water with the fish-killing pesticide rotenone on a 15–kilometre section of the river and to Miramichi Lake is now on hold after New Brunswick's Minister of Environment, Jeff Carr determined the project must first undergo an environmental impact assessment.

The fish were first spotted in August 2019 in the McKiel Brook pool of the river's southwest branch.

More than 100 smallmouth bass have since been captured in an attempt to limit their spread in the river or in Lake Brook, the avenue they are believed to have used to migrate from nearby Miramichi Lake.

All were between 19 and 28 centimetres long. Female smallmouth are believed to be large enough to spawn sometime after reaching 28 centimetres, or between four and five years of age.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/invasive-species-smallmouth-bass-rotenone-fish-pesticide-lake-river-treatment-poison-1.5732853

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 25, 2020, 09:14:01 AM
>>> In the Pacific Northwest, Native Americans paint images of salmon on to stones. They say that if you rub those stones you will acquire the fish's two great qualities: determination and energy. Not so long ago these communities' diets consisted of more than 80 per cent salmon, and they believed it to be a wondrous thing that the migratory fish returned on the same week every year. They also believed they 'owed the salmon respect and gratitude' — and if they failed in this they might stop coming back.

In the 19th and 20th centuries their fears were realised. But it wasn't Native Americans who were disrespectful to the once abundant salmon; it was those who came from Europe, with a wish to get rich and tame the wild. Mark Kurlansky's book is an epic, environmental tragedy, with the salmon at its centre as the abused hero, and a long list of supporting characters, from Scottish fly fishermen to Japan's indigenous Ainu people.



https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/born-to-be-wild-the-plight-of-salmon-worldwide
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Post by: Aka on September 27, 2020, 10:00:07 AM
A couple scenes in this are from the river I grew up on. At 0:56, I used to camp back in the woods there in high school. We'd fish during the day and drink beer around the camp at night. At 2:05 is the flood plain on the lower section of the river where the mouth of the river meets Cook Inlet. As sobering as this is it's still neat to see images of the river I grew up fishing.

https://youtu.be/9xSISeNR1ro
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 10, 2020, 10:58:45 AM



The governors of the four Pacific Northwest states pledged Friday to work together, and with Native PNW govs. to work together on restoring fish runs
Agreement between Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Montana leaders says tribes, stakeholders will also be involved in plansAmerican tribes and regional stakeholders, to restore Columbia River salmon and steelhead stocks.

>>>The executives signed a letter of agreement that outlines their commitment to develop a collaborative process aimed at finding actions that will help the region meet robust goals set by the Columbia River Partnership Task Force, a group sanctioned by federal fisheries officials that met over the past three years. The group's goals far exceed delisting criteria for wild salmon and steelhead runs protected under the Endangered Species Act.

https://lmtribune.com/northwest/pnw-govs-to-work-together-on-restoring-fish-runs/article_9931caaa-e0cc-5c80-8424-1a75cbe662be.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 13, 2020, 08:48:39 AM
Study will investigate the genetic impact of escaped farmed salmon

>>>One of the most comprehensive studies of wild Atlantic salmon genetics, which aims to gauge the impact of any interbreeding between wild and escaped farm-raised salmon, has been launched today

The study has been launched in response to a recent escape of farm-raised salmon and will be managed by the wild-fish conservation body Fisheries Management Scotland, supported by scientists from Marine Scotland Science, and funded by Mowi Scotland.

The multi-year study of 115 sites aims to confirm wild salmon's current genetic profile and to track for the potential of genetic changes should interbreeding of farmed and wild salmon occur.

In late August, Mowi Scotland confirmed that 48,834 farm-raised salmon escaped from its Carradale farm in the Firth of Clyde after it became detached from its seabed anchors during a combination of strong weather events.

https://thefishsite.com/articles/study-will-investigate-the-genetic-impact-of-escaped-farmed-salmon
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 03, 2020, 11:40:39 AM
The Salmon SuperHWY: Reconnecting Fish To 940 Square Miles Of Their Natural Habitat

>>>Oregon's Tillamook and Nestucca watersheds were historically some of the most productive waters for salmon, steelhead, and trout in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past century, however, much of the habitat here became fragmented due to road construction and flood control development, although otherwise much of these stream systems remain pristine.

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Trout Unlimited is a founding partner in the groundbreaking program created to reconnect this productive fish habitat, at an almost unprecedented scale: the Salmon Superhwy.

The audacious goal of the Salmon Superhwy is to enable trout, salmon and steelhead to again migrate freely throughout 940 square miles of their historic habitat, while at the same time improving road conditions, transportation safety, and flood control.

https://loonoutdoors.com/blogs/journal/salmon-superhwy


https://vimeo.com/123870154
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 09, 2020, 11:42:50 AM
Barriers to renewal

Nearly 200 years later, New York officials are still trying to get salmon back into the Saranac River. The biggest obstacle: Dams.

https://youtu.be/C10rTUt0ulI

>>>Jeff Snyder was in his happy place, fly fishing the Saranac River near the foot of Franklin Falls Dam on a lazy summer day.

He was at a loss to name anything wrong with the river. But something was missing.

The Saranac flows from headwaters around Upper Saranac Lake, in the heart of the Adirondacks, and winds some 81 miles to the northeast, dropping nearly 1,500 feet before spilling into Lake Champlain.

Snyder, who lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, has fished it for 35 years and keeps coming back. To him, the Saranac is ideal.

It's scenic and winding. Most important on this July day, though, it was alive with fallfish.

"They put up a good fight," Snyder said of the trout-size minnow. "They're fun to catch and they're easy to catch because they eat almost anything."

Even the fallfish's spunk can't match the tug of a fish that has been conspicuously and long absent from this river, though.

Salmon 

Atlantic salmon were once so numerous in the river that early settlers could haul them out by the cartload. Then, two centuries ago, they vanished.


https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/salmon-saranac-river-dams

https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/salmon-saranac-river-dams
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 09, 2020, 12:23:22 PM
The Experimental Method That Might Just Save Maine's Salmon

>>>Unlike most New England rivers, the East Machias River never quite lost its salmon. Every fall, a small remnant population swam upstream, against waters that tumble and curl 36 miles from Crawford Lake to the coast, through balsam-scented boreal forest where moose splash and eastern coyotes sing. The Downeast Salmon Federation's weathered, cedar-shingled Peter Gray Hatchery sits along the bank, just below a narrow stretch of rapids that empties into the river's wide, flat tidal reaches.

The hatchery building was an abandoned power station — infested with rats, windows broken, officially designated by the town of East Machias as a "slum and blight site" — before the federation moved in. Now, instead of rats, the place is full of salmon in various stages of development, swimming around in a couple of dozen tanks through which unfiltered river water flows. The damp air always has a fishy scent.

Believing that other hatcheries produced inferior fish, Gray asserted that his method produced "little athletes."

https://downeast.com/land-wildlife/saving-atlantic-salmon/
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Post by: Aka on November 09, 2020, 15:28:37 PM
Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated core environmental laws in approving the genetically engineered (GE) salmon. The Court ruled that FDA ignored the serious environmental consequences of approving genetically engineered salmon and the full extent of plans to grow and commercialize the salmon in the U.S. and around the world, violating the National Environmental Policy Act.

https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2020/federal-court-declares-genetically-engineered-salmon-unlawful
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 13, 2020, 09:55:20 AM
Local Action Leads to Salmon Comeback in Washington's Hood Canal

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>>>Facing the deterioration of the rivers where they breed, salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest have been declining for decades. But in Washington State's Hood Canal, one species of salmon, summer chum (Oncorhynchus keta), is recovering to levels that could result in its removal from the endangered species list.

Summer chum salmon populations in Hood Canal, a fjord about 50 miles west of Seattle that opens into Puget Sound, have always relied on the ecosystems of glacier-fed rivers and coastal estuaries to reproduce. Overfishing, destruction of estuary habitats, and a warming climate caused the region's populations to crash, and the species was listed as threatened in 1999. But now, after years of efforts by local projects, the salmon runs are reaching de-listing levels, which indicates that their population levels are robust enough to ensure their prolonged survival.

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/11/12/salmon-comeback-hood-canal/
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Post by: Aka on November 13, 2020, 10:43:38 AM
A new study that found salmon size across all species are shrinking in Cook Inlet, AK a large salt water inlet that covers about 39,000 sq mi in south central Alaska. It is the watershed for many coastal streams including the Kenai river, home to the largest Chinook or king salmon in the world.

"In each species, fish maturing after 2010 were significantly smaller on average than fish that matured prior to 1990. Variation in the extent of body size change existed among species, with Chinook Salmon showing the greatest magnitude decline. Within species, the magnitude of decline also varied among regions and populations, but the overall pattern of body size decline was significant in all four species. Importantly, our study shows that changes in body size resulted primarily from changing age structure and to a much lesser extent from changing growth rates."


https://inletkeeper.org/2020/10/28/alaska-salmon-are-shrinking/?fbclid=IwAR3PYG11evqIOEBmpFh-25owWPYZqEPYF5lPifuJn51kf3ucVRuA60XjL3E
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 21, 2020, 09:45:57 AM
Salmon return on Penobscot the highest since 2011

>>>The unofficial count — before Maine Department of Marine Resources staffers analyze data and make sure that recaptured fish are only counted once — is 1,603 salmon that have been counted in the Penobscot this year. That's up from 1,152 in 2019, and is the biggest run of salmon since 2011, when 3,125 salmon returned to the river. The average run for the eight years from 2012 to 2019 was just 708 salmon per year.

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/11/21/outdoors/salmon-return-on-penobscot-the-highest-since-2011/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 23, 2020, 09:46:34 AM

SACRAMENTO RIVER SALMON RESTORATION WILL CONTINUE WITH NEW $10M FEDERAL GRANT


https://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/news/Sacramento-River-salmon-restoration-will-continue-with-new-10M-federal-grant-573163231.html


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 26, 2020, 09:17:05 AM


50,000 Atlantic salmon escape Tasmanian fish farm

>>>HUON Aquaculture announced on Facebook that over 50,000 Atlantic salmon escaped from one of its Tasmanian fish farms.
A fire damaged a fish pen located in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel on Monday morning, burning through and melting the pen infrastructure above and just below the waterline, resulting in estimated fish loss between 50,000 – 52,000 fish.

http://www.fishingworld.com.au/news/50-000-atlantic-salmon-escape-tasmanian-fish-farm
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 26, 2020, 09:23:08 AM
An ancient people with a modern climate plan

After a brutal storm in 2006, the Swinomish tribe off the coast of Washington state launched a strategy to deal with the effects of a warming planet. Now, 50 other native tribes have followed suit.

>>For 10,000 years, the Swinomish tribe has fished the waters of northwestern Washington, relying on the bounty of salmon and shellfish not only as a staple of its diet but as a centerpiece of its culture. At the beginning of the fishing season, the tribe gathers on the beach for a First Salmon ceremony, a feast honoring the return of the migratory fish that binds the generations of a tribe that calls itself the People of the Salmon.

At the ceremony's conclusion, single salmon are ferried by boat in four directions — north to Padilla Bay, east to the Skagit River, south to Skagit Bay and west to Deception Pass — and eased into the water with a prayer that they will tell other salmon how well they were treated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/11/24/native-americans-climate-change-swinomish/?arc404=true
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 26, 2020, 09:51:43 AM
Where to See Salmon Spawn in Marin County, California

Despite being listed as critically endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, coho salmon and steelhead trout are still found in Marin County, California. The largest run of coho salmon in the Central California Coast are found in Lagunitas Creek. Salmon and steelhead spawn (build nests) in Lagunitas Creek, San Geronimo Creek, Olema Creek, and several other tributaries.

Coho salmon are an anadromous species, meaning they migrate from the ocean to their freshwater natal streams to spawn, or build nests (called redds). Salmon spend two to seven years in the ocean before returning to the freshwater streams and rivers where they first emerged as fry to build redds in an area of coarse gravel. As a female discharges her eggs into the redd, a male fertilizes them. All coho die after spawning—the dead and dying fish are a valuable source of nutrients for plants, insects, birds and mammals, and are a vital component to the structure of this fascinating ecosystem.

https://seaturtles.org/where-to-see-salmon-spawn-in-marin-county-california/

NOTE:isn't this the ultimate snagger's hot spotting?
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Post by: Sedition and Pockets on November 26, 2020, 10:06:56 AM
For once, some good news.  The Pebble Mine project, had it been allowed to proceed, would have annihilated the most important remaining spawning habitat in North America for salmon and other anadromous fish, despoiled one of the last great wild places on the continent, and dealt a catastrophic blow to the Indigenous people of Alaska, destroying at a stroke their livelihood and erasing thousands of years of history and heritage, all for the private profit of a greedy few.  The denial of this permit ends that threat.  For now.

Understand that this did not happen because of the goodness of the Army Corps of Engineers.  It did not happen because federal regulators are responsible stewards of America's natural inheritance, nor because they respect and honor the treaty arrangements forced upon Native peoples at gunpoint.  We know that they aren't responsible stewards.  We know that they do not respect those treaties.  This victory was won because for more than a decade, Indigenous people, recreational guides, commercial fishers, and sporting and conservation groups struggled together in a massive and sustained fightback against the Pebble Mine project.  When we fight, we win!

This planet is the birthright of all of humanity.  It is the only home any of us will ever know.  Day-by-day and inch-by-inch that home is being stripped and strangled, our common heritage plundered for the private benefit of the obscenely wealthy.  This is the inevitable state of affairs under the dictatorship of capitalism, a system which places all real power in the hands of a tiny minority who own everything and do nothing.  Know, too, that this victory, as great as it is, is only a temporary respite.  The thieves will be back again and again, until they have sucked this wild place as dry as the rest, or we put an end to the system of capitalism entirely.  As long as that system remains in place, no victory is final and nothing that is won can last.  We need a whole new system!  For the planet to live—for ALL of us to live—capitalism must die!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/climate/pebble-mine-permit-denied.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 29, 2020, 09:55:29 AM
Over $10M Granted To Preserve Salmon Habitats

>>>The 27 approved projects will further state and federal fisheries recovery plans, including removing barriers to fish migration, restoring riparian habitat, monitoring of listed populations, and creating a more resilient and sustainably managed water resources system that can better withstand drought conditions.

"The ongoing momentum to restore California's habitat for these historic species hasn't stopped as we face a global pandemic and devastating wildfires," CDFW director Charlton Bonham said.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Over-10M-Granted-To-Preserve-Salmon-Habitats-15760564.php
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 29, 2020, 10:01:43 AM
https://youtu.be/sr6lZBCoSSA

Rewilding a run
November 29, 2020 1 Comment

Salmon swim toward recovery, but need a boost

>>>The story repeats itself around the country: Salmon vs. dams, dams vs. salmon.

Dams usually win.

But what happened in the eastern Adirondack Park town of Willsboro is remarkable, a sign of how quickly the balance can change.

The old Saw Mill Dam stood in the middle of town decades after the mill there had closed. It stood for something about the town and what it had been, but it also stood in the way of what had been there, swimming in the Boquet River, long before there was a town.

There used to be a lot of salmon in the Boquet—so many that one early account of the river says 500 were caught there in a single afternoon. But intense fishing like that, along with pollution and dams like the one in Willsboro, wiped them out. Atlantic salmon faded from the Boquet and every other river draining to Lake Champlain. By the mid-1800s, there were no Champlain salmon left.

https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/boquet-salmon
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 04, 2020, 09:55:54 AM
New research explains why salmon are dying in the Pacific Northwest.


>>>Scientists in the Pacific Northwest say they've solved a long-running mystery behind the region's dying salmon, a discovery that may explain what's harming fish elsewhere around the globe, including California.

In research published Thursday, a team of university and government scientists identify a toxic material derived from tire treads that is washing into rivers and creeks as the killer of as many as 90% of the coho salmon in parts of the Puget Sound.

The finding is a welcome breakthrough for Washington state after decades of losing the revered fish without a full explanation. However, it also points to a bigger problem, one that's both difficult to solve and not limited to a single part of the country, and possibly rampant in urban areas everywhere.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/New-research-explains-why-salmon-are-dying-in-the-15773283.php


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CNN Article

>>>"We believe that 6PPD-quinone is the primary causal toxicant for these observations of coho salmon mortality in the field," said Ed Kolodziej, the lead investigator for this study. "It's exciting to start to understand what is happening because that starts to allow us to manage these problems more effectively."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/us/microplastics-tire-rubber-chemicals-killing-coho-salmon-scn/index.html





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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 04, 2020, 10:13:33 AM
Another farmed salmon mass breakout in Tasmanian waters stuns Huon Aquaculture

Salmon farmer Huon Aquaculture is investigating another unexplained incident that allowed an entire pen of fish to escape into the ocean off southern Tasmania.

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Key points:
It's the second big loss of Atlantic salmon from a Huon Acquaculture fish farm in Tasmania in days
About 130,000 fish each weighing about half a kilogram have escaped into Storm Bay

Company founder wishes "merry Christmas" to local fishers out in droves trying to catch the salmon
The company says 130,000 salmon escaped through a "significant tear" in a fortress pen in Storm Bay on Wednesday morning.

Early last week, the company lost more than 50,000 fish when a pen caught fire in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, melting part of the structure.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-03/suspicion-around-second-mass-salmon-escape-tasmanian-fish-farm/12947734


Radio Report from ABC Radio:

Environmentalists concerned after second mass exodus of salmon from fish farm

Listen Here 5:55 (https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/news/newsradio/audio/202012/NAUs_kellysalmonTO_0412_nola.mp3)

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/newsradio/environmentalists-concerned-after-second-mass/12950166
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 05, 2020, 09:10:46 AM
In depth podcast


Deep dive: What happens when the salmon stop coming home






https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/deep-dive-what-happens-when-the-salmon-stop-coming-home-1.5827424



>>>Salmon is a staple food for many Indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest. The fish has been the subject of song, story and artwork for thousands of years. It is also a symbol of fortitude, and self sacrifice. But in recent years, the mighty salmon has been facing some scary realities.

This week on Unreserved, a deep dive into the ripple effect of the dwindling fish stock, as we find out what happens when the salmon stop coming home.

It used to be that tens of millions of vibrantly coloured wild salmon could be seen swimming to the upper reaches of British Columbia rivers to spawn. This fall, there were fewer than 300,000. That's the lowest number of wild salmon ever recorded. And that's cause for huge concern. In her documentary, Swimming Upstream, the CBC's Jennifer Chrumka explains how First Nations, fishers and environmentalists are working together to turn the tide.

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Post by: Aka on December 07, 2020, 11:26:41 AM
What say you, The Dude, any plans for a soy based tire?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/us/microplastics-tire-rubber-chemicals-killing-coho-salmon-scn/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2020-12-07T06%3A01%3A10&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1cH1b1T82WqhmbZvJQPCrOpUKWUG0o8gbGByNVF5-J3FbcDnM46jT_pqw
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Post by: Aka on December 07, 2020, 11:36:52 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on December 04, 2020, 10:13:33 AMAnother farmed salmon mass breakout in Tasmanian waters stuns Huon Aquaculture

Salmon farmer Huon Aquaculture is investigating another unexplained incident that allowed an entire pen of fish to escape into the ocean off southern Tasmania.

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Key points:
It's the second big loss of Atlantic salmon from a Huon Acquaculture fish farm in Tasmania in days
About 130,000 fish each weighing about half a kilogram have escaped into Storm Bay

Company founder wishes "merry Christmas" to local fishers out in droves trying to catch the salmon
The company says 130,000 salmon escaped through a "significant tear" in a fortress pen in Storm Bay on Wednesday morning.

Early last week, the company lost more than 50,000 fish when a pen caught fire in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, melting part of the structure.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-03/suspicion-around-second-mass-salmon-escape-tasmanian-fish-farm/12947734


Radio Report from ABC Radio:

Environmentalists concerned after second mass exodus of salmon from fish farm

Listen Here 5:55 (https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/news/newsradio/audio/202012/NAUs_kellysalmonTO_0412_nola.mp3)

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/newsradio/environmentalists-concerned-after-second-mass/12950166

In related news, my dad says his freezer is now full. He caught 20 of the escapees from the Huon pens which are about 7 miles down river from his house. He took his boat down river and stretched a net out for a couple of hours. He figured they weigh around 10lbs. each and at $20AUD a kilo he put nearly two grand worth of fish in his freezer in a day.

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Post by: Onslow on December 07, 2020, 14:10:54 PM
Quote from: Aka on December 07, 2020, 11:26:41 AMWhat say you, The Dude, any plans for a soy based tire?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/us/microplastics-tire-rubber-chemicals-killing-coho-salmon-scn/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2020-12-07T06%3A01%3A10&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1cH1b1T82WqhmbZvJQPCrOpUKWUG0o8gbGByNVF5-J3FbcDnM46jT_pqw

18 months ago, I was riding in a van full of Boy Scouts, and the gas gage needle started moving a bit quickly.  Upon our arrival back at the lodge, I stuck my head under the van, and gas was running steadily out of the line.

I heard a bit later the fuel lines were soy based. Woodland rodents enjoy chewing on this variety of plant based product. I'm not thinking this is a good plan. Soy processing has some other serious downsides. The population needs to be thinned, but this can be accommplished without turning males into soy boys.

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Post by: Aka on December 08, 2020, 21:43:51 PM
Right at my childhood doorstep. Not so good news for commercial fishermen.

https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2020/12/07/fisheries-council-shuts-down-commercial-salmon-fishing-in-cook-inlet-federal-waters/?fbclid=IwAR0ROOP7MkBYyTC8DcQ7aRGl8_wu6PGCllkbNUS-aZjfwVLWyX4qHHUw7JA
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 12, 2020, 09:24:01 AM
Federal government to build new $176 million "fishway" on the Fraser River



>>>The federal government announced this week it has contracted engineering giant Kiewit to construct a new permanent fishway on the Fraser River at the site of the Big Bar landslide, located about 64 km north of Lillooet.

The contract value is worth CAD$176.3 million, which includes design work. Construction is expected to begin this winter for an operational start in time for the Fraser River's Pacific wild salmon migration in 2022.


https://youtu.be/PDSLuiUwcQ8


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/big-bar-landslide-fraser-river-fishway-passage-salmon
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 12, 2020, 09:26:37 AM
Restrictions Send Waves Through Sport Fishing Community
FISH OFF: As WDFW Restricts Fishing from Floating Devices on Coastal Rivers, Guides and Sport Fisherman are Left Reeling



>>>The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WFDW) announced new restrictions Tuesday that prohibit fishing from floating devices and the use of baits or scents in coastal rivers. The restrictions, which go into place Dec. 14, sent ripples through the sport fishing community.

Fishing from jet sleds, drift boats and pontoons are all prohibited, greatly limiting the areas fishermen can harvest from and eliminating popular boat-fishing methods such as plugging, side drifting and bobber dogging. Selective gear rules are also in effect, except one single-point barbless hook is allowed, and all rainbow trout must be released.

Rivers will also close earlier than in past years, ranging from Jan. 1, 2021 to April 1, 2021, depending on the river. In Lewis County, the Chehalis, Skookumchuck and Newaukum rivers, including all forks, each close April 1.


http://www.chronline.com/news/restrictions-send-waves-through-sport-fishing-community/article_782c49ae-3c03-11eb-871a-674c34d7f3fa.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 13, 2020, 09:09:16 AM
REGON FIELD GUIDE
The story of salmon's 'hero's journey' that I'm saving for my son


>>>Filming salmon has been a big part of my job as an "Oregon Field Guide" photographer. I've taken assignments up to high-mountain salmon-bearing streams and out on ocean-going research vessels. Along with the numerous interviews I've recorded with scientists, my work has given me a deep appreciation for the remarkable lives of these fish and the epic journey they undertake.

To me, the story of salmon in the Northwest is right up there with Homer's Odyssey in ancient literature.

Salmon are a big part of what makes nature so captivating. And now that I'm a dad, I want my son to develop an appreciation of his own for our natural world.

I was hoping to begin my 3-year-old boy on that journey of discovery this September when I took him to witness the annual return of fall chinook salmon to their spawning grounds in a stream that flows from the Cascade Mountains. But instead of sharing my awe at the returning fish, he did what any toddler would do. He scrambled as close as I'd let him get to the water's edge and hunted for sticks to splash and rocks to toss in the stream.


Watch a cool short video

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/12/chinook-salmon-pacific-northwest-cascade-mountains/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 21, 2020, 09:12:44 AM
Nisqually River stretch protected by land trust's $1.2 million purchase

>>>A wild, salmon-producing shoreline on the Nisqually River will now be protected after a local land trust acquired the area.

The Nisqually Land Trust, a non-profit conservancy organization, announced the $1.2 million purchase last week. It covers 174 acres of floodplain and upland forest, including habitat for five species of native Pacific salmon, in the river's Wilcox Reach along the Pierce County side of the river, according to a news release.

"This property is the river's crown jewel," said the trust's lands committee chair George Walter in the release. "In terms of salmon recovery, there's nothing else quite like it."

https://www.thenewstribune.com/outdoors/article247871690.html

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The Nisqually Land Trust, a non-profit conservancy organization, announced a $1.2 million property purchase of this stretch of the river Dec. 15. It covers 174 acres of floodplain and upland forest, including habitat for five species of native Pacific salmon, in the river's Wilcox Reach along the Pierce County side of the river above Yelm. TOM LEESON COURTESY OF WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 22, 2020, 09:09:45 AM
Congress Coronavirus/Appropriations Bill Gives $65 Million to Conserve Fish in Western U.S.

>>>The legislation Congress is poised to pass that combines relief for the coronavirus with federal appropriations for 2021 includes a long list of funding for pet projects around the country, including western states and tribal communities, which will get $65 million to conserve Pacific salmon and steelhead populations.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/21/ccongress-coronavirus-appropriations-bill-gives-65-million-to-conserve-fish-in-western-u-s/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 30, 2020, 09:20:00 AM
Nez Perce Tribe reclaims ancestral village site in eastern Oregon

>>>OSEPH — The Nez Perce Tribe is reclaiming an ancestral village site in eastern Oregon more than a century after being pushed out of the area.

This month, the tribe purchased 148 acres of an area known as "the place of boulders," or Am'sáaxpa, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.

Chief Joseph once held council on the ridge above, before a sweeping view of the Wallowa Mountains. Tribal members would camp there and catch sockeye salmon along the Wallowa River.

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/12/nez-perce-tribe-reclaims-ancestral-village-site-in-eastern-oregon.html


NPR Article and and interesting podcast

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/25/nez-perce-tribe-eastern-oregon-reclaims-ancestral-land/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 07, 2021, 10:17:28 AM

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>>>The Maine Department of Marine Resources has reduced its estimate of Atlantic salmon returns to the Penobscot River by nearly 200 fish, but the final estimate for 2020 — 1,440 salmon — is still the highest annual return since 2011. In November, state fisheries scientists announced an estimated 1,603 Atlantic salmon had returned to the Penobscot River.


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/01/07/outdoors/final-penobscot-salmon-estimate-reduced-but-the-total-is-still-the-highest-since-2011/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 12, 2021, 10:46:50 AM
FISHING: Olympic National Park to shut down fishing on West End rivers

>>>According to an Olympic National Park press release, park officials are particularly concerned over the forecasted low return of Queets River wild steelhead. The 2020-21 forecast for Queets wild steelhead is expected to be well below the escapement goal of 4,200 fish. Queets wild steelhead have failed to meet that escapement goal in each of the last four years, and returns in recent years were among the lowest on record.

https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sports/fishing-olympic-national-park-to-shut-down-fishing-on-west-end-rivers/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 15, 2021, 09:16:55 AM
Scientists draft letter calling on governors to tear down the lower Snake River dams
For salmon and steelhead to survive, the dams must go

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>>>Historically, the Snake River basin was the largest salmon producer in the Columbia River system, once home to salmon runs numbering in the millions. Today, all stocks of salmon and steelhead in the basin are gravely imperiled and some are at the precipice of extinction. Over the last 20 years, the federal government has invested nearly $17 billion into the recovery of Snake River Basin salmon and steelhead—with little to nothing to show in the way of results. The reason, scientists say, is the continued existence of the lower Snake River dams, which destroy habitat, create conditions averse to fish survival, and block passage to vital spawning habitat. This week, ten scientists signed an open letter to the governors of Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho calling on those states to remove the lower four dams on the Snake River, stating that "abundant, healthy and harvestable wild Snake River salmon and steelhead cannot be restored and sustained with the four lower Snake River dams in place."

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/scientists-draft-letter-calling-governors-tear-down-lower/7715196


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 15, 2021, 09:19:43 AM
ANGLERS REMOVE MORE THAN 100,000 PREDATORS FROM RIVER SYSTEM DURING THE PANDEMIC

Portland, Ore. – The Bonneville Power Administration and its partners report that in 2020, for the 23rd consecutive season, the Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program met its annual goal to remove 10% to 20% of pikeminnow, 9 inches or longer, in the Columbia and Snake rivers that prey on juvenile salmon and steelhead.

    * Fish removed 103,114
    * Registered anglers 2,450
    * Average angler catch 6.5 fish/day
    * Total paid to anglers $839,461
    * Top angler
        * Fish removed 5,579
        * Total earnings $48,501

https://lcvalley.dailyfly.com/Home/ArtMID/1352/ArticleID/57819/ANGLERS-REMOVE-MORE-THAN-100000-PREDATORS-FROM-RIVER-SYSTEM-DURING-THE-PANDEMIC


dang, get paid $9 for every fish over 9" 

https://youtu.be/6Ed8kVQTens

In 2014, the top twenty anglers caught an average of about 3,500 fish per angler and averaged reward payments of $28,609 each for the 5 month season. The highest paid angler earned $73,698.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 18, 2021, 09:16:56 AM
The plight of the wild Atlantic salmon
How climate change, ocean warming and fish farms are affecting the life cycle of this dangerously threatened species.

>>Sitting in the warmth of the desert's winter sun here in the Middle East, my mind turns to the contrast of the season at home, where the gales batter the west coast of the British Isles and the blizzards assault the moors. The cold waters of river and stream course through bleak and cold landscapes, as bare windswept trees frame leaden skies.

Yet on the riverbanks, there are also signs of the coming northern hemisphere spring, signs in which we can hold hope for the year ahead: the thrusting shoots of daffodils, the dainty heads of snowdrop flowers emerging against all the frozen, wintery odds.

>>>Many years ago, I stood mesmerised by the flowing waters of the River Ettrick in the Scottish town of Selkirk. The place was alive with leaping fish, an astonishing sight as salmon migrating from seas off Greenland and Iceland leapt upstream over the town weir in their dozens. The wild fish were coming back to their home waters to spawn, as they have done for millennia.

But year after year, the numbers of returning salmon have been decreasing. And in the last few years, the decline has been in freefall. In Scotland, it is estimated that less than 5 percent of salmon return to their rivers, compared with 20 percent 50 years ago. And it is a problem across the range of the Atlantic salmon, from the United States to Russia.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/1/17/the-plight-of-the-wild-atlantic-salmon

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 19, 2021, 09:27:00 AM
State Report Says Salmon and Steelhead Are Near the Brink of Extinction

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>>>A new report from the Governor's Salmon Recovery Office shows a number of salmon and steelhead populations in Washington state are teetering on the brink of extinction, according to a Thursday press release by the state Recreation and Conservation Office.

The report, titled 'State of Salmon in Watersheds,' shows that 10 of the 14 populations of salmon and steelhead listed as threatened or endangered in Washington under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) are not making progress. Of the 10, five are in crisis.

"We have come a long way in addressing the factors killing salmon," said Erik Neatherlin, the executive coordinator of the Governor's Salmon Recovery Office. "Some salmon populations are strong and nearing recovery. Unfortunately, many challenges are outpacing restoration efforts, holding back recovery of the majority of salmon."

http://www.chronline.com/news/state-report-says-salmon-and-steelhead-are-near-the-brink-of-extinction/article_5085ef2c-59ea-11eb-bdfb-63562cfa03f9.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 19, 2021, 09:34:46 AM
Salmon returning to North Van creek in 'shocking' numbers

https://youtu.be/OQ37L_Gb6NM


>>>After all but disappearing from Mosquito Creek, salmon populations are returning in record numbers thanks to a habitat improvement project led by the North Shore Streamkeepers.

Keegan Casidy, the group's president, grew up fishing in North Vancouver. Life took him to the Cariboo for a time but when he returned to the North Shore in 2016, he saw his beloved creek almost devoid of fish.

The last time a pink salmon had been spotted there was the following year.

"I used to run down with a fishing rod, prior to cellphones and things like that, and have some fond memories of very large fish in the creek," he said. "I very quickly found out that the salmon population had declined to a point of almost extirpation."


https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/salmon-returning-to-north-van-creek-in-shocking-numbers-video-3272706

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2021, 10:03:08 AM
Letter to the Editor: Kennebec River best hope for Atlantic salmon


>>>I was involved in the Augusta's Edwards Dam removal for 25 years. It started out with a small group of conservationists who liked to fish and had a vision of a free-flowing river. With the help of many other groups and individuals, the first ever power generating dam was removed for environmental reasons.

The benefits of returning the Kennebec to free flowing to Waterville and beyond have been well documented, with alewife, shad and blue backs returning in record numbers, just to name a few. The fish lift owned by Brookfield at Lockwood hasn't passed shad or alewife in any numbers for 10 years.

The Kennebec River is the last hope for restoring wild Atlantic salmon in the United Stated. The amount of power lost at the lower dams on the Kennebec is minimal and the benefits of dam removal is well documented. The only fish passage that really work is a free flowing river.

Before we damned the Kennebec and made it an industrial river, Atlantic salmon ran wild in huge numbers and were harvested and sold all over the world. We were their demise and we have an obligation to restore them if we can!


https://www.pressherald.com/2021/01/18/letter-to-the-editor-kennebec-river-best-hope-for-atlantic-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2021, 10:21:07 AM
A River on the Rebound, "From the Mountains to the Sea"

>>>One of the greatest stories of ecological rebirth happened (and is happening) right here in Maine. It's a story of people and communities and organizations and businesses finding ways to cooperate and find paths to positive changes that benefit all. A richly illustrated new book, "From the Mountains to the Sea," published by Islandport Press, tells this uplifting tale: the amazing story of the historic restoration of the Penobscot River.

Beginning in the late 1700s and continuing through the 1800s and 1900s, dams were built on the Penobscot River despite continued objections by the Penobscot Nation, knowing that the dams would prevented fish from making their annual migrations from the sea to their spawning grounds upriver. Atlantic salmon, alewife, American shad, and American eel were among the dozen species of sea-run fish whose populations were decimated by the figurative slamming of the door to the river highway that led to the breeding grounds that they had used for thousands of years. Those fish populations had numbered in the millions, bringing essential sustenance to the people of the Penobscot Nation and to countless birds, mammals, and other creatures. Two hundred years later, the fish and the river were barely a shadow of what they had been.

https://www.boothbayregister.com/article/river-rebound-mountains-sea/142741


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 22, 2021, 09:24:44 AM
If you've got a lot of time on your hands you can watch for Atlantic Salmon on BBC's winter watch web cam on the River Ness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eqwz3d/live/cbmj3d

Note: the view rotates through several web cams... so stay tuned to view the river...



The male salmon of the River Ness
We've got some wonderful live wildlife cameras in the River Ness, in Scotland, following the fortunes of the Atlantic salmon that come there to spawn. And you can even get to know the individual characters with this handy guide from Chris Conroy, River Director & Clerk of the Ness District Salmon Fishery Board.

See if you can spot any of the regulars on the live camera!
A few weeks after returning from the sea and entering freshwater, Atlantic salmon lose their silvery colouration and start to change to their breeding dress. Individual Atlantic salmon may seem very similar, but each fish has unique natural markings. This includes dark pigment spots called 'melanophores'. Individual fish can be identified from their melanophore patterns (known as 'melanophore constellations'). Some fish also have distinctive scars caused by predator damage or the teeth of other fish.

We have captured images of some of the regular visitors to this part of the River Ness this year and highlighted their melanophore patterns (red circles) and any distinctive scars (red arrow). We have concentrated on the males as they tend to hang around longer than the females. Some of these fish have been in the area for over a month already.

See if you can spot any of the regulars on the live camera!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/m6PPgCSTg1fh1NHCpkn2Sp/the-male-salmon-of-the-river-ness


I just spied this guy...

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 28, 2021, 10:12:08 AM


Helping the Atlantic salmon avoid extinction
The Atlantic salmon run used to be majestic. Today the species is on the brink of extinction. One hatchery in Maine is giving the species in the US hope

Watch the CNN short video (https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/01/27/atlantic-salmon-extinction-c2e-intl-lon-orig.cnn) about the Downeast Salmon Federation (https://www.mainesalmonrivers.org/) (Maine) which utilized the hatchery methods developed by Peter Gray on the River Tyne in the UK.





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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 03, 2021, 09:18:46 AM
Funding announced for projects to protect and restore Pacific wild salmon

>>>Steps are being taken at the federal and provincial level to help preserve our wild salmon population.

Federal fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan announced funding for four projects, aimed at restoring salmon habitats across B.C.

The $4 million in funding will come out of the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund.

The latest projects that will receive funding through BCSRIF are: (follow link for more info)

https://www.mycomoxvalleynow.com/75444/funding-announced-for-projects-to-protect-and-restore-pacific-wild-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 04, 2021, 06:29:37 AM
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKy_s4xHmED/?igshid=n6ivgqpluhn5
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 04, 2021, 09:16:33 AM
Bill Would Preserve Thousands of Miles of Oregon's Rivers
Economy, residents, and wildlife stand to benefit from expanded wild and scenic designations

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>>>Looking at a map of Oregon, it's hard to miss the intertwining rivers, streams, wetlands, and lakes—a natural network that delivers clean drinking water to Beaver State communities, supports a thriving outdoor recreation economy, and provides vital habitat for wildlife.

Yet, only 2% of the state's 110,000 miles of rivers are protected under the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden (D) is trying to change that with the River Democracy Act of 2021, which he introduced on Feb. 3 and which would designate approximately 4,700 miles of waterways as wild and scenic, giving Oregon the most wild and scenic river miles in the U.S.

These waterways include places such as the North Fork of the Smith, prized by anglers for its cutthroat and steelhead trout; the Illinois River, which flows through the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in southwestern Oregon and is home to rare plants that are found nowhere else; Looking Glass Creek, a tributary to the Grande Ronde River in the state's northeastern corner and home to bears, lynx, and wolverines; and the Nestucca River, which cuts through the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge and is home to bald eagles and Canada geese.

The legislation would benefit Oregonians, the state economy, and the state's natural systems, protecting these special resources for generations to come.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2021/02/03/bill-would-preserve-thousands-of-miles-of-oregons-rivers
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 06, 2021, 09:34:59 AM
Ranchers improve fish habitat via 25-year partnership

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>>>The Lemhi River meanders for 60 miles through a big valley in this quiet corner of Eastern Idaho before it flows into the Salmon River.

Here, local ranchers have been working closely with fish experts and conservation professionals for more than 25 years to improve fish habitat for ESA-listed Snake River chinook salmon and steelhead, migrating fish that travel more than 800 miles from here to the Pacific Ocean.

Even before the fish were protected under the Endangered Species Act in the early 1990s, Lemhi ranchers wanted to do their part to save the fish.

"I used to go down to catch salmon all the time," says Don Olson, a Lemhi rancher who's been involved since the beginning. "It was a big deal when we was kids. We used to come down to this pool here, and the salmon would lodge in here, and man you'd ride 'em and chase 'em, and do all kinds of fun stuff."


https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/livestock/ranchers-improve-fish-habitat-via-25-year-partnership/article_f4ebd134-2b4c-11eb-be8a-e36ce0f42a85.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 08, 2021, 09:15:39 AM
Conservationists and biologists are sounding the alarm over off-roading activity in a part of the Fraser River critical for spawning fish.

Gill Bar is a gravel bar near Chilliwack popular with ATV riders and anglers. It's also part of an area known as the "heart of the Fraser" relied on by dozens of juvenile fish species.

https://globalnews.ca/video/rd/921e3ebe-69ba-11eb-97d0-0242ac110005/


raw video...

https://youtu.be/-T0VE4m_shs


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 08, 2021, 09:19:55 AM

This GOP congressman wants to remove 4 dams to save Idaho's salmon. It'll cost billions.


>>>An Idaho Republican congressman wants to end the salmon wars by removing select hydroelectric dams, replacing the electricity lost, paying communities and businesses, and giving American Indian tribes more power.

A $33 billion Pacific Northwest energy and infrastructure proposal would end litigation over endangered salmon and authorize the removal of four dams on the Snake River in Washington beginning in 2030. U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson of East Idaho released the plan after asking more than 300 groups what they would need if the dams came out.

Power marketed by the Bonneville Power Administration from the four controversial dams would be replaced. Shippers and farmers would get funds for alternatives to the barge shipping on the Snake and compensation for closed barge facilities. Lewiston in Idaho and the Tri-Cities in Washington would get billions for economic development

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/environment/article248988810.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 10, 2021, 09:17:25 AM
One Alaska king salmon is worth the same as two barrels of oil right now

>>>Seafood sales "are on fire" in America's supermarkets and one king salmon from Southeast Alaska is worth the same as two barrels of oil.

That's $116.16 for a troll-caught chinook salmon averaging 11 pounds at the docks vs. $115.48 for 2 barrels of oil at $57.74 per barrel on Feb. 3.

As more COVID-conscious customers opted in 2020 for seafood's proven health benefits, salmon powered sales at fresh seafood counters. Frozen and "on the shelf" seafoods also set sales records, and online ordering tripled to top $1 billion.

https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2021/02/09/one-alaska-king-salmon-is-worth-the-same-as-two-barrels-of-oil-right-now/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 11, 2021, 09:09:07 AM




Program seeks to restore salmon

>>>Bolstered by a recent federal grant, the Peter Gray Parr Project continues its work to restore the Atlantic salmon in Maine waters.

The species remains endangered in the United States and according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, "the last wild populations of U.S. Atlantic salmon are found in at least eight rivers in Maine."
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/waterfront/program-seeks-to-restore-salmon/
The Peter Gray Parr Project closely mimics the way juvenile salmon, known as parr, which are older and bigger than fry, are raised in the wild. It has been used by the Downeast Salmon Federation (DSF) to stock the East Machias River with parr for the last 10 years.

It has been so successful that it is garnering national recognition and was featured on CNN's "Call to Earth," which reports on environmental challenges and solutions.

https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/waterfront/program-seeks-to-restore-salmon/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 13, 2021, 10:07:33 AM
Reviving the Atlantic salmon, one egg at a time

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UMF students and instructor Nancy Prentiss, along with fisheries specialists, trek through the snow to plant Atlantic salmon eggs in a nearby tributary of the Sandy River. (Photo by Elliott Eno)

>>>AVON – University of Maine at Farmington students assisted The Department of Marine Resources in planting 15,000 Atlantic salmon eggs on Wednesday morning; the Sandy River in the past has always had a healthy Atlantic salmon population according to Maranda Nemeth of The Atlantic Salmon Federation.

"The species in the Sandy have really diminished over the years. Historically the salmon runs used to run in the tens of thousands, but there have been dams...and other [factors] that have caused their decline," said Nemeth.

Dams have been the major cause of decline in the Atlantic salmon population in Maine.

"One of the big projects we have right now is tackling one of those big problems, mainly dams. So, we're working to remove the dam in Farmington," said Nemeth. "We're hoping to remove that this year."



https://dailybulldog.com/features/reviving-the-atlantic-salmon-one-egg-at-a-time/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 10, 2021, 09:13:52 AM
Return of the King of Fish

>>>A coalition comprising the Maine Department of Marine Resources, USFWS, the Penobscot Indian Nation and a commercial salmon-raising firm, Cook Aquaculture USA, has undertaken a novel approach to rearing adult Atlantic salmon and introducing them to the East Branch of the Penobscot River.

Approximately 5,000 adult fish will be transported from the net pens to target tributaries and the mainstem of the East Branch of the Penobscot River in the fall of 2021 or 2022, where they will find suitable habitat to naturally spawn. This will result in more spawning adults than have been present in the Penobscot River for decades.

Smolts raised from native broodstock by the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the Green Lake National Fish Hatchery in Ellsworth, Maine, and smolts captured in the wild by rotary screw traps will be used to stock the marine net pens in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Smolts will include only those from Penobscot River origin to ensure the genetic integrity of salmon released into the river.

https://observer-me.com/2021/03/09/news/return-of-the-king-of-fish/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 16, 2021, 13:00:53 PM
Conne River salmon stocks near extinction, says DFO

Stock returns set record low for 4th straight year

>>>The latest salmon numbers from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans come with a stark warning to the south coast of Newfoundland, as the stock there is near extinction.

Nick Kelly, a DFO stock assessment biologist, says the salmon population in Conne River has dropped dramatically since monitoring began in the late 1980s, from about 10,000 salmon then to fewer than 200 last year.

"It's on this pretty sharp downward trajectory," Kelly told CBC Radio's The Broadcast on Friday. The stock has particularly nosedived since 2016, when 1,200 fish returned.

Kelly said the population at nearby Little River has also dropped to near zero, with fewer than 10 salmon returning to the river in 2020. He said several factors could be at play in the decrease, including sub-optimal sea surface temperatures, physical conditions and the availability of prey.

"The marine ecosystem is quite complex in itself. It could be a variety of issues," he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/conne-river-salmon-stocks-near-exinction-1.5949786
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 16, 2021, 13:04:08 PM
Wabanaki perspective on Kennebec River damming

>>>For millennia, the Kennebec River was the nucleus of Wabanaki food-systems, diplomacy, and ceremonial life. After hundreds of years of industrial development, it has become unsustainable for Wabanaki peoples and our aquatic relatives alike. The future of Atlantic Salmon and several other sea-run fish now hinges on the restoration of this waterway.

The five Wabanaki nations are often described as "riverine" peoples, because the interconnected waterways of our homelands are a vital part of our cultural identities and sustenance. We have always traversed our vast territory by canoe, considering the Kennebec River as both a relative in herself and a means to reach our relatives throughout our kinship network. Using the Kennebec River system (the second largest in Maine), one can access the St. Lawrence, Androscoggin, Allagash, St. John, St. Croix, Aroostook, Sebasticook, Penobscot, and Machias rivers, and the open ocean.

Damming these rivers has been both a symptom and a strategy of colonization. In spite of this, Wabanaki people are still able to portage around obstructions in our rivers. The fish are not so privileged, and for this reason we must do everything we can to ensure their access to the expansive northeastern river systems that sustain us all.

Today, a dozen once-abundant species of fish are unable to reach their historic territories, spawning grounds, and rearing habitats along the Kennebec and its tributaries. Critically, damming has brought Atlantic salmon to the brink of extinction in this watershed and possibly across the entire continent.

https://dailybulldog.com/features/wabanaki-perspective-on-kennebec-river-damming/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 17, 2021, 09:08:52 AM

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/sports/outdoors/potential-dam-removal-on-the-kennebec-river-is-met-with-support-and-opposition-after-a-proposed-ammendment-calls-for-multiple-dams-to-be-removed/97-c9c20a20-b17d-4716-b8be-4b68ebd89429
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 20, 2021, 08:16:30 AM

5 Things to Know About the Fate of Wild Salmon
Historical pressures combined with new threats from climate change have pushed more than a dozen species close to extinction.

It's not too hard to find salmon on a menu in the United States, but that seeming abundance — much of it fueled by overseas fish farms — overshadows a grim reality on the ground. Many of our wild salmon, outside Alaska, are on the ropes — and have been for decades.

Twenty years ago Pacific salmon were found to have disappeared from 40% of their native rivers and streams across Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California. In places where they remain, like the Columbia River system, the number of wild fish returning to streams is estimated to have plunged by as much as 98%. Today 28 populations of West Coast salmon and steelhead are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

New research is helping to put the problem — and solutions — into focus. But in some cases, policy to implement changes still lags.



https://therevelator.org/pacific-salmon-coverage/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 23, 2021, 08:52:41 AM
Maine Is Bringing Salmon Back
In an experimental approach, the state is partnering with salmon farmers to reintroduce wild-born fish to Maine's rivers.

>>>April 1 used to mark the opening of the Atlantic salmon fishing season on the Penobscot River in Maine. Anglers in pea pods would vie for the honor of catching the first fish, and commercial salmon fishermen would set their weirs, nets, and traps into the snowmelt-swollen current.

But as the species declined, from tens of thousands of fish in the 19th century to a few thousand in the early 20th, people became disconnected from the so-called king of fish. Commercial fishing ended in 1947; salmon angling became catch and release only in the 1990s; and all fishing ceased in 1999, when the Atlantic salmon was placed on the US endangered species list.

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/maine-is-bringing-salmon-back/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 28, 2021, 11:42:11 AM
Searching for the secrets of Scotland's vanishing 'king of fish'
New investigations are being launched in a bid to discover the fate of Scotland's iconic wild salmon, which are disappearing at a worrying rate.

>>>Scottish rivers are home to around 90 per cent of all wild Atlantic salmon in the UK.

But studies suggest only five out of every 100 that set off on their journey to the ocean ever come back.

If declines continue at the current rate it's estimated the species will be on the endangered list in less than ten years.

Tracking studies have already been set up on rivers on Scotland's east coast, but now the scheme is being extended to take in new sites on the west.

The Perth-based Atlantic Salmon Trust (AST) began monitoring around the Moray Firth last year to establish where the fish are going missing.

Results reveal that half of newly hatched salmon never even make it to the sea.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/searching-for-the-secrets-of-scotlands-vanishing-king-of-fish-3180439
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 31, 2021, 09:04:42 AM
It's time for a different approach to Atlantic salmon restoration

>>>You can't put a monetary value on a species, or a price tag or timetable on efforts to prevent one from going extinct. Extinction is about much more than money, and its impacts are not fully understood until years after it occurs. Our environment is a complex series of natural interactions that work together to make our world what it is. For every action there is a reaction, and there is no way to fully understand what that will be until you lose a piece.

The nation's Atlantic salmon are hanging by a thread. Atlantic salmon are not just another fish, they are the King of Fish, the Presidential Fish. They are an important part of Maine's history, lore and outdoor heritage, and one of the things that makes Maine unique. And when it comes to Atlantic salmon, Maine is the last battleground in the United States. As goes Maine, so goes the Atlantic salmon. And as goes the Atlantic salmon, so goes Maine...

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/03/30/outdoors/its-time-for-a-different-approach-to-atlantic-salmon-restoration/
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Post by: Michael Toris on March 31, 2021, 10:19:13 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on March 31, 2021, 09:04:42 AMIt's time for a different approach to Atlantic salmon restoration

>>>You can't put a monetary value on a species, or a price tag or timetable on efforts to prevent one from going extinct. Extinction is about much more than money, and its impacts are not fully understood until years after it occurs. Our environment is a complex series of natural interactions that work together to make our world what it is. For every action there is a reaction, and there is no way to fully understand what that will be until you lose a piece.

The nation's Atlantic salmon are hanging by a thread. Atlantic salmon are not just another fish, they are the King of Fish, the Presidential Fish. They are an important part of Maine's history, lore and outdoor heritage, and one of the things that makes Maine unique. And when it comes to Atlantic salmon, Maine is the last battleground in the United States. As goes Maine, so goes the Atlantic salmon. And as goes the Atlantic salmon, so goes Maine...

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/03/30/outdoors/its-time-for-a-different-approach-to-atlantic-salmon-restoration/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 05, 2021, 08:36:45 AM
https://therevelator.org/kennebec-atlantic-salmon/


Our Last, Best Chance to Save Atlantic Salmon
Atlantic salmon are perilously close to extinction in the United States. Taking down a few dams could go a long way to aiding their recovery, experts say.


>>>Atlantic salmon have a challenging life history — and those that hail from U.S. waters have seen things get increasingly difficult in the past 300 years.

Dubbed the "king of fish," Atlantic salmon once numbered in the hundreds of thousands in the United States and ranged up and down most of New England's coastal rivers and ocean waters. But dams, pollution and overfishing have extirpated them from all the region's rivers except in Maine. Today only around 1,000 wild salmon, known as the Gulf of Maine distinct population segment, return each year from their swim to Greenland. Fewer will find adequate spawning habitat in their natal rivers to reproduce.

That's left Atlantic salmon in the United States critically endangered. Hatchery and stocking programs have kept them from disappearing entirely, but experts say recovering healthy, wild populations will require much more, including eliminating some of the obstacles (literally) standing in their way.

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Post by: troutrus on April 05, 2021, 17:57:13 PM
Fish lifts and taxi cabs moving fish upriver takes the excitement out of a "wild fishery" for me.
Plus, Canada ain't much farther.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 07, 2021, 19:28:08 PM
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/endangered-trout-return-to-the-los-angeles-river


Endangered trout may soon return to the concrete Los Angeles River
The paved waterway is best known for movie car chases, but a new project aims to make it a haven for wildlife once again.

>>>One of the most prominent pilot projects in the billion-dollar effort is the Los Angeles River Fish Passage and Habitat Structures Design Project, which aims to allow fish—especially steelhead—to move freely through the river once again. 

Like salmon, steelhead are anadromous fish that live in the ocean and return to rivers and streams to spawn. As recently as the early 1900s, steelhead in the tens of thousands would make the run from the Pacific Ocean upstream through the Los Angeles River to its mountain headwaters. Anglers would congregate at spots like Steelhead Park, now near Dodgers Stadium, hoping to catch these iridescent sportfish that can grow up to three feet long.


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 08, 2021, 08:21:05 AM
Acoustic salmon trackers used to find out why population is shrinking

Conservationists looking into the drastic decline in the world's wild salmon population are using the River Nith in Dumfries & Galloway for their research.

Acoustic tracking devices have been installed along the river to detect the movement of tagged Salmon. It is hoped the data will give a better picture of why the population is shrinking.

Research shows in the 1980s, there were between eight and ten million salmon swimming in the Atlantic.

But that number has now plummeted to between two and three million with fears salmon could disappear from our seas and rivers altogether in just 20 or 30 years.

https://www.itv.com/news/border/2021-04-07/acoustic-salmon-trackers-used-to-find-out-why-population-is-shrinking
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 21, 2021, 08:11:26 AM
WHOOSH!

A new solution to help fish navigate man-made barriers in our rivers whisks fish over dams in seconds almost before the fish are aware of it.

>>>Essentially, Whooshh is a flexible tube with an entry point at the bottom of the barrier. Here, they photograph the fish in a wet airlock component at high speed, and machine learning measures each fish and directs it to a best-fit tube, the transport tube itself, and an ejection zone where the fish might be braked to ensure a safe re-entry to the river above the dam. "It's a voluntary process for the fish. We create an attraction flow or current where we want the fish to enter the system. We sit it in an area where the fish will naturally aggregate or rest in front of the barrier. They will find the entrance by themselves," Byron explains.

Once inside, the fish enter a dewatered and misted wet airlock where they are photographed at high resolution at high speed 18 times from three angles, using both infrared and visible light. In less than half a second, the technology identifies the fish by species, and its girth measured. It is important to dewater the photography area to enable its use in even turbid waters. One unexpected result of the library of high-resolution images has been that fish biologists have been able to quantify sea lion and seal attacks on the beleaguered fish, helping to inform fisheries policies on predator control. A sorting algorithm then either sends the fish forward to an appropriate diameter tube for its journey up and over the barrier or rejects it as an undesirable alien species and sends it back to the river, denying it passage. The company must train the algorithm on hundreds of images of fish from each river over a period of months. This is important so that fisheries authorities can stop invasive species continuing upriver and competing with the valued native species like Atlantic salmon or Chinook for food and spawning sites. Fisheries managers will decide whether to remove the invasive species altogether, or return them to the river. The system can handle 60 fish a minute, more than enough for a busy migration.

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/04/fairground-for-fish-a-solution-to-help-navigate-man-made-barriers/

https://youtu.be/17qyh611alA
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 23, 2021, 09:24:30 AM
The salmon population in Oregon has been on the decline for years, thanks in part to poor environmental stewardship. A new short documentary from Portland-based advocacy organization Pacific Rivers spotlights one effort to reverse that trend in Northeast Oregon.

https://vimeo.com/527606800
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 04, 2021, 08:18:05 AM
Maine awarded $7 million to restore stream crossings on private roads

A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help restore some of Maine's highest-value aquatic networks from fragmentation and degradation.


>>>A $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help restore some of Maine's highest-value aquatic networks from fragmentation and degradation by improving stream crossings on private roads, The Nature Conservancy said Monday.

Project partners led by the conservancy in Maine will use an innovative design and installation approach to improve habitat and aquatic organism passage and reduce impacts from increasingly volatile storm flows, it said. With over 11 million acres of Maine forest in private hands, the project is designed to influence stream-friendly management on thousands of miles of aquatic habitat.

https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/03/maine-awarded-7-million-to-restore-stream-crossings-on-private-roads/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 05, 2021, 08:04:18 AM
16.8 million young hatchery salmon get truck rides to San Francisco Bay


>>>The CDFW said it will take approximately 146 individual truckloads traveling more than 30,000 miles between mid-April and early June to deliver all the fish.

John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association (GSSA), said the decision by the CDFW follows requests from the GSSA urging the state to take action.

>>>"Although it won't help this year's restricted season, the trucking should produce a large number of 20" jacks by next year and allow a fishing season in 2023," McManus said. "This will be especially valuable considering water temperature forecasts now show that water temperatures will likely be lethal for spawning salmon by fall unless the state acts to require added temperature protections."


McManus said the need to truck hatchery fish in part stems from the "failure of state water managers to better balance water allocation to protect salmon and the environment."

"Salmon fishermen and women are grateful for the trucking of hatchery salmon, but we mourn the loss of the state's wild salmon runs caused by the failure of government to better manage finite freshwater sources in the Central Valley," said McManus. "We hope the state will act to avoid the massive fish kills we saw in 2014 and 2015."






https://www.recordnet.com/story/sports/2021/05/04/california-drought-16-8-million-young-hatchery-salmon-get-truck-rides-san-francisco-bay/4941501001/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 10, 2021, 15:23:32 PM
THE MACALLAN DOES ITS BIT TO SUPPORT AT-RISK ATLANTIC SALMON

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A project to preserve at-risk Atlantic salmon in the River Spey is underway as the Atlantic Salmon Trust embarks on the Moray Firth Tracking project, supported by a charitable partnership with The Macallan.

The River Spey is home to the largest Atlantic salmon population in Scotland, a key-stone species which is in sharp decline due to habitat destruction and overfishing.

https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/food-and-drink-2/whisky/the-macallan-does-its-bit-to-support-at-risk-atlantic-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 11, 2021, 09:04:24 AM

>>>Gary Griffin chokes up as he describes seeing water flowing freely for the first time under a bridge replacing part of the Petitcodiac River causeway.

For decades, Griffin publicly pushed for restoration of tidal flow on the river. Now he smiles as he looks out at the water from a park in Riverview.

"That was the greatest feeling in the world," Griffin said of watching the water. "You don't know how good that feels after 50 years of trying to fix it."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gary-griffin-petitcodiac-river-bridge-1.6020340
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 26, 2021, 13:41:32 PM

Farmed Salmon Could Be Spreading a Deadly Disease to Their Wild Counterparts

>>>If you're the type who only buys wild fish to eat and would never touch the farmed stuff, just know the two may not be as separate as you think. New research published in Science Advances on Wednesday found that an infectious virus known as Piscine orthoreovirus-1, or PRV-1, may have spread from Atlantic salmon aquafarms to wild Pacific salmon.


PRV-1 is a virus common in salmon that has been shown to cause Atlantic salmon populations to have heart and skeletal muscle inflammation. It's also been associated with a different disease increasingly found in Pacific salmon—specifically, wild Chinook salmon, whose populations are in decline.


In Chinook salmon, PRV-1 has been linked to a condition known as jaundice/anemia, which causes the fishes' red blood cells to burst and their abdomens and under-eye area to turn yellow. More importantly, it can lead to deadly liver and kidney damage in the wild salmon.





https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/farmed-salmon-could-be-spreading-a-deadly-disease-to-their-wild-counterparts/ar-AAKpIAy
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 28, 2021, 11:39:14 AM
Fuk those guys...

Poachers Steal Steelhead From Fish Traps

>>>Poachers took spawning fish from the fish trap and destroyed surveillance cameras to hide their crimes during the winter steelhead run in Woodward Creek near Powers, Oregon according to ODFW and OSP officials. They request the public's assistance in identifying these individuals.

Multiple people accessed the trap. One person, identified through surveillance footage, entered the trap to net fish, then shot one camera and stole another. Troopers caught up with Kaine M. Horner, 24, formerly of Myrtle Point, while he was fishing illegally in a closed section of the South Coquille River on Feb 22. They seized his rifle, net, and fishing gear. Charges include Criminal Mischief II, Unlawful Taking Steelhead, and Angling Prohibited Area, according to OSP Sergeant Levi Harris, who is leading the investigation. Harris is disappointed by this behavior.




https://1190kex.iheart.com/featured/portland-local-news/content/2021-05-27-poachers-steal-steelhead-from-fish-traps/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 11, 2021, 07:09:46 AM
More than 17 million salmon will be released into San Francisco bay in massive bid to save species

>>>conic Chinook salmon need cold running water to survive. They hatch in rivers, then migrate to the sea to mature. After a couple of years, they swim back to where life began to reproduce, or spawn. But this year, studies show fish born in the wild will likely die.

"Survival has been shown to be very dependent on temperature as well as flow. And the temperatures that we're seeing now are anticipated to have pretty low survival for fish that are released in the river," environmental scientist Jason Julienne told CBS News' Jonathan Vigliotti.

That's why hatcheries are jumping with activity. To save the species, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has launched a massive operation which includes 700,000 juvenile salmon being sucked up by a tube and put into one of seven tankers. The fish are hitching a ride inside 146 trucks, traveling more than 100 miles to the Pacific. In all, more than 17 million salmon will be released into the San Francisco Bay. Nothing about this is natural, but it's their best chance for survival.

John McManus heads up an association of fishermen who advocate for salmon and ecosystem protections. He said the efforts being made to move the salmon bring a glimmer of hope.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salmon-population-california/

Interesting video in the link...

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 20, 2021, 09:39:19 AM
Outdoors in Maine: Is the high cost of Atlantic salmon recovery worth it?
How much is enough? When do we stop trying? What can be done? V. Paul Reynolds writes that the recovery of a river in Great Britain might be a good example for Maine to follow.

>>>According to the Atlantic Salmon Federation, "The recovery plan itself estimates that it could take up to 75 years, or 15 generations, for salmon to meet the recovery criteria and be removed from the endangered species list. The plan also estimates that an additional $24.6 million per year (beyond the current $8.6 million in federal funding) will be necessary to implement priority recovery actions between 2019 and 2023. After that, the plan estimates it could take several hundred million dollars over the next 75 years to address the major threats and recover the species."


https://www.sunjournal.com/2021/06/19/outdoors-in-maine-is-the-high-cost-of-atlantic-salmon-recovery-worth-it/

my bold...

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 25, 2021, 08:25:13 AM
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Work at Big Bar slide site means Fraser River salmon should have better chance this year
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It's been 2 years since the discovery of major landslide that blocked the Fraser River to migrating salmon


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/work-at-big-bar-slide-site-means-fraser-river-salmon-should-have-better-chance-this-year-1.6076838
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 27, 2021, 08:02:31 AM
Pacific salmon recovery report gives 32 recommendations to reverse salmon declines
Report caps an investigation into B.C.'s declining salmon populations


Reversing the complex decline of Pacific salmon will take research, resources, leadership and collaboration, according to a new parliamentary report.

The report, tabled in the House of Commons on June 21 by Fleetwood-Port Kells MP Ken Hardie, caps an investigation into B.C.'s declining salmon populations by Canada's Standing Committee on Fisheries & Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.

Concern over B.C.'s salmon is not new, with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) launching the Salmonid Enhancement Program in 1977 and 20 federal and provincial inquiries held over the past two decades.


But decreasing catches and low returns over the last few years — less than one per cent in some conservation units — have raised alarm, particularly for chinook and sockeye salmon in the Fraser River System.

https://www.agassizharrisonobserver.com/news/pacific-salmon-recovery-report-gives-32-recommendations-to-reverse-salmon-declines/#
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 30, 2021, 08:44:19 AM

How to bring back steelhead trout to the L.A. River
The L.A. River is too shallow, flows to quickly and presents several other challenges for steelhead trout

>>>Steelhead trout used to swim up and down the L.A. River. Downstream to the salty Pacific Ocean to grow and live, then upstream toward the cold fresh waters of the San Gabriel Mountains to spawn. Back and forth, north and south, from the beginning of recorded history until 1940.

That's the last recorded time that a steelhead trout was caught there.

And now, after more than 80 years, the city is trying to bring the trout back to the L.A. River.

https://www.theeastsiderla.com/news/los_angeles_river/how-to-bring-back-steelhead-trout-to-the-l-a-river/article_01c602a4-d632-11eb-8e2f-c383590f6e83.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 01, 2021, 08:32:43 AM
Canada to Close Nearly 60% of Commercial Pacific Salmon Fisheries in Effort to Protect Species

Canada's Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Bernadette Jordan announced significant commercial salmon closures for the 2020 season.

The aim of the move is to reduce pressure on Pacific salmon stocks and will be included in the 2021-22 Pacific Salmon Integrated Fisheries Management Plan. The closures will impact Commercial salmon fisheries and First Nations Communal Commercial fisheries.

In all, the closures will result in closures to nearly 60 percent of commercial salmon fisheries for the 2021 season.

https://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1202428/Canada-to-Close-Nearly-60-percent-of-Commercial-Pacific-Salmon-Fisheries-in-Effort-to-Protect-Species
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 01, 2021, 08:41:51 AM
Kennebec River rescue highlights challenges of protecting endangered Atlantic salmon

>>>A recent event on the Kennebec River in Waterville was evidence of the challenges the fish face and the extent of efforts made to assist them.

On June 15, some Atlantic salmon became stranded below the Lockwood Dam, one of four hydroelectric projects located on the Kennebec owned by Brookfield Renewable U.S.



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https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/01/outdoors/kennebec-river-rescue-highlights-challenges-of-protecting-endangered-atlantic-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 02, 2021, 08:06:09 AM
Hatcheries can't save Snake River salmon and steelhead

>>>In the mid-20th century heyday of large dam construction, when fishing interests worried about the impacts on migratory salmon and steelhead populations, dam boosters offered up hatcheries as a solution. The pitch was simple: we can build dams and enjoy the benefits they provide, and the hatcheries will sustain the fisheries. It was an alluring win-win proposition that proved persuasive at the time.   

Today, there are many so-called "mitigation hatcheries" in the Snake River basin that are intended to produce enough salmon and steelhead to make up for the wild fish that were lost when their habitat was blocked by dams. Roughly 33 million juvenile salmon and steelhead are released from Snake River hatcheries every year, including more than 15 million spring/summer chinook and 10 million summer steelhead.   

That's a lot of fish.

But the ultimate purpose of mitigation hatcheries is not simply to produce juvenile fish. It is to have adult salmon and steelhead return to support fisheries, including treaty-based fisheries for tribes that have been sustained by salmon and steelhead for millennia. 

https://www.tu.org/magazine/conservation/barriers/hatcheries-cant-save-snake-river-salmon-and-steelhead/


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 15, 2021, 07:47:49 AM
Officials warn heat wave could kill nearly all young endangered salmon in Sacramento River

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/563120-officials-warn-heat-wave-could-kill-nearly-all-young-endangered
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 22, 2021, 15:27:16 PM
Federal judge orders sweeping changes to Oregon dams to help salmon runs

>>>The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must make immediate, sweeping changes to 13 Oregon dams to better preserve salmon runs, a federal judge has ruled.

Each of the hydropower dams standing on the Willamette Valley's North Santiam River were built by the Flood Control Act of 1938 between the 1940s and 1960s. The structures long have been blamed by environmental groups for impeding Chinook salmon and steelhead runs.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was sued earlier this year by environmental groups, including the Native Fish Society. They allege the Corps failed to meet the terms of its 2008 biological opinion or legal settlement with the National Marine Fisheries Service Corps to better accommodate local salmon runs.

https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/state/federal-judge-orders-sweeping-changes-to-oregon-dams-to-help-salmon-runs/article_24315d91-cc76-5ea6-84c1-986918ee7f4f.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 22, 2021, 15:30:00 PM
California's Salmon in Upstream Battle Against Drought
The prized fish already face numerous hurdles in wet years, but in times of drought their fortunes are even more tenuous




https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/californias-salmon-in-upstream-battle-against-drought/2601419/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 22, 2021, 15:37:03 PM

Outlander river project aiming to clear a path to bring wild salmon back to the area

Up to 90 percent of the river is unaccessible by salmon and sea trout at any one time, experts say

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Preston Mill was featured in Outlander (Image: Richard Webb)

The mill and its waterwheel featured prominently in the first series of the American cable show which found international fame for its stars and put the East Lothian location on the international map.

Now work is underway to remove Knowes Weir, less than a mile from the famous landmark, which is 40 metres wide and diverted water to Knowes Mill.


https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/outlander-river-project-aiming-clear-21109669
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 24, 2021, 08:47:32 AM
Groups urge state to protect last wild Atlantic salmon in US

>>>Getting the fish listed on the Maine endangered list has long been a goal of many environmental groups. The Maine Endangered Species Act includes 26 endangered species and 25 threatened ones. The list includes two fish: the endangered redfin pickerel and the threatened swamp darter.

The list is designed to provide state-level protection to jeopardized species and is a complement to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. A few species, including the piping plover, are listed on both.


https://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Groups-urge-state-to-protect-last-wild-Atlantic-16337032.php
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 24, 2021, 08:52:56 AM
WATCH: British actors Robson Green and Jim Murray highlight work done in Moray Firth to conserve salmon


https://youtu.be/0r34GlBqe3E


>>>A conservation group's aim to understand the reasons behind the marked decline in salmon numbers has received the support of British actors Robson Green and Jim Murray.

The two ambassadors for the Missing Salmon Alliance's member organisation, the Atlantic Salmon Trust, have set out on a road trip across Scotland to highlight the numerous efforts to get to the bottom of the mystery behind Atlantic salmon's decline.

That decline in wild Atlantic salmon populations has seen their numbers decrease by 70 per cent in the last 25 years.

The issues effect salmon in all stages of their life journey, from the rivers to their time out at sea. As recently as the mid 1960s, of salmon departing to their feeding grounds in the North, Celtic and Icelandic seas, a steady 35 per cent could be expected to return. Now, in 2020, that number is less than three per cent.

Green and Murray's titular Roadtrip to Discovery, focused on the efforts of both the Moray Firth, and West Coast tracking projects.




https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/news/watch-british-actors-robson-green-and-jim-murray-highlight-245351/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 28, 2021, 09:39:47 AM
Call for unity to breach Snake River dams and restore salmon to preserve our heritage


The essence of being an Idahoan and, in my case, a member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes of Idaho, centers around our recognizing the importance of the land we live on, air we breathe, water we drink and food we eat. Among the most precious childhood memories and treasured traditions we hold dear is learning how to fish for salmon along the banks of our pristine Snake River. Yet our children and grandchildren's ability to carry out our fishing legacy is at risk due to the decimated populations and endangered status of steelhead and salmon.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article253029473.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 31, 2021, 08:40:46 AM
A sterile solution: How Crispr could protect wild salmon
Gene-editing technology may prevent escaped farmed salmon from interbreeding with their wild counterparts

>>>In an attempt to prevent escaped fish from interbreeding with their wild counterparts and threatening the latter's genetic diversity, molecular biologist Anna Wargelius and her team at the Institute of Marine Research in Norway have spent years working on ways to induce sterility in Atlantic salmon. Farmed salmon that cannot reproduce, after all, pose no threat to the gene pool of wild stocks, and Wargelius has successfully developed a technique that uses the gene-editing technology Crispr to prevent the development of the cells that would otherwise generate functioning sex organs.


https://www.salon.com/2021/07/30/a-sterile-solution-how-crispr-could-protect-wild-salmon_partner/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 06, 2021, 08:36:47 AM
'Witnessing the Collapse'
Officials warn of cascading crises facing Pacific salmon


>>>"Salmon are an incredibly hardy species," said McGuire. "Salmon have migrated [to the ocean] from the cold water of the California streams and mountain rivers for centuries. They overcome great odds to return to their home streams, their birthplace, to lay their eggs and start the process of that great migration over again. ... But today we're witnessing the collapse of that iconic species right in front of our eyes."

https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/witnessing-the-collapse/Content?oid=21162729
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 12, 2021, 08:07:31 AM
North Umpqua River, tributaries, closed to all angling

>>>ROSEBURG, Ore. — Low numbers of summer steelhead returning to the North Umpqua River prompted state fishery managers to close the river and its tributaries to all angling from the mouth to the marker below Soda Springs Dam, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said this week.

The emergency closure is effective Aug. 10 through Nov. 30, 2021.

Initial counts of summer steelhead passing Winchester Dam are historically low at about 20 percent of average, officials said. These counts are determined from Winchester Dam video of migrating fish as well as from snorkel counts in Steamboat and Canton Creeks.


https://kpic.com/news/local/north-umpqua-river-tributaries-closed-to-all-angling
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 14, 2021, 09:20:57 AM
good lord... money grubbers...
Belfast moves to seize mudflat access for proposed salmon farm

>>>BELFAST, Maine — City councilors unanimously voted Thursday night to proceed with eminent domain action that will ensure that Nordic Aquafarms can cross a hotly contested strip of mudflat to get to Penobscot Bay.

The vote took place immediately after a public hearing that saw dozens of members of the public lambasting councilors for nearly two hours. People from Belfast and beyond criticized the move as governmental overreach, anti-democratic, environmentally unsound and biased towards a foreign corporation.

But councilors did not waver. City officials expect that the move will smooth the path for the Norwegian-owned aquaculture company to build a $500 million land-based salmon farm on the inland side of U.S. Route 1. Some spoke of the long permitting process since the company first announced its intentions three and a half years ago to build their project in Belfast.


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/08/12/news/midcoast/despite-protests-belfast-moves-to-seize-mudflat-access-for-proposed-salmon-farm/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 16, 2021, 08:40:49 AM

VANCOUVER – Pacific salmon can no longer access hundreds of kilometres of spawning streams or floodplain habitat after decades of urban, agricultural and resource development around British Columbia's Lower Fraser River, a study has found.

The study and mapping by researchers at the University of B.C. focused on 14 populations in the lower stretch of Canada's most productive salmon river.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8112125/pacific-salmon-habititat-loss-ubc-research/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 03, 2021, 09:04:41 AM
Steelhead Fishing Is Off-Limits in Sections of Four Columbia River Tributaries Due to Record-Low Migration Returns
This year's run was already projected to be one of the lowest on record. Those numbers are even worse than expected.

>>>The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has enacted an emergency ban on steelhead fishing throughout much of Central and Eastern Oregon due to a sharp decline in migration numbers. Those closures take effect Sept. 1 and apply to the lower Deschutes, John Day, Umatilla and Walla Walla rivers.


https://www.wweek.com/outdoors/2021/09/01/steelhead-fishing-is-off-limits-in-sections-of-four-columbia-river-tributaries-due-to-record-low-migration-returns/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 03, 2021, 09:07:14 AM
When do you draw the line?
Renowned Oregon steelhead guide Jeff Hickman cancels entire season due to dismal fish returns


https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/when-do-you-draw-line/7715339


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Post by: Trout Maharishi on September 03, 2021, 20:56:53 PM
They have already had an almost non existent summer run season. Probably gonna be a few drift boats for sale on the west coast.

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 13, 2021, 10:38:12 AM
California's disappearing salmon
The drought, along with man-made impediments, has
placed the state's wild Chinook population at grave risk.


>>>For centuries, spring-run Chinook salmon, among California's most iconic fish, would rest for weeks in these historically cold waters after their brutal upstream journey. Then they would lay eggs and, finally, perish to complete one of nature's most improbable life cycles.

No longer. What once was a place where life began is now one of untimely death.

The creek is simply too warm, an astounding 10 degrees warmer than average in some parts of these spawning grounds. It is the result of the creek's low flow, which speeds up the spread of disease as the water stagnates, and of the Central Valley's high heat in the depths of drought.

Of the estimated 16,000 spring-run Chinook that made the journey from the Golden Gate Bridge to this curve in a creek and others like it across the Central Valley, about 14,500 have died, nearly all of them before spawning.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/california-disappearing-salmon/?itid=hp-top-table-high
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 14, 2021, 08:22:21 AM
BANGOR, Maine -- Efforts are under way to restore Atlantic salmon populations in the Gulf of Maine, by removing dams, replacing culverts and restoring streams.

Salmon are what are known as sea-run fish, meaning they live part of their lives in fresh water and part in the ocean.

John Catena, Northeast and Great Lakes region supervisor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Restoration Center, said dams across the region have blocked Atlantic salmon's migration paths from the ocean to the river to spawn.

This year, four local Maine projects are receiving $900,000 in funding from NOAA.


https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2021-09-14/salmon-recovery/four-atlantic-salmon-restoration-projects-in-maine-get-federal-funding/a75712-1

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 17, 2021, 08:25:50 AM
Nature Conservancy buys 13,500 acres in Hancock County

Sep. 17—In an effort to preserve wildlife habitat in eastern Hancock County, The Nature Conservancy has acquired approximately 13,500 acres of forested land north of Tunk Mountain and Route 182.

The land, which abuts an existing conservancy preserve to the immediate north of Tunk Mountain and the northwest corner of the state's Donnell Pond Public Land, will continue to be open to the public for birding, hunting and fishing.

The primary goal of the acquisition is to preserve the land for wildlife habitat, the organization said Thursday. The purchase price for the land, which conservancy officials say was "substantially" lower than its appraised value, was $5.2 million. Overall, the project to acquire the land cost $6.5 million.

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 17, 2021, 08:29:55 AM
Why are Columbia River steelhead having such a bad year?

>>>It's an extremely tough year to be a steelhead.

Fish are returning from the Pacific Ocean back to their freshwater spawning grounds in some of the lowest numbers on record, prompting widespread fishery closures and dire warnings of a race toward extinction.

On the Columbia River, just about 54,000 steelhead have made it past Bonneville Dam as of this week. The count so far this year is less than a third of what it's been the past 10 years on average.

"It seems like the bottom has just dropped out on steelhead," said Laurie Weitkamp, a research fisheries biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Newport.

Columbia River steelhead runs have been gradually shrinking for the past decade, so a small run this year comes as little surprise in that regard. The dismal state of this year's runs have exposed a critical gap in our understanding of steelhead and how they live.


https://youtu.be/bmBmBTHoArM


https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/16/steelhead-columbia-river-record-low-science/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 17, 2021, 08:35:49 AM
Ecological future of Island's Englishman River secured through multi-million dollar donation

>>>PARKSVILLE — The Nature Trust of BC has completed the purchase of a prized piece of property at the mouth of the Englishman River.

Courtesy a $6 million donation from the Wilson 5 Foundation, the Nature Trust of BC now owns the 6.9 acre residential estate located in one of the province's endangered Coastal Douglas Fir ecosystems.

Jasper Lament, Nature Trust's CEO, told NanaimoNewsNOW the area is home to over 20 species of fish and the purchase means securing key areas of the river and surrounding habitats.

"This one is really strategically located where the Englishman River meets the Salish Sea and the connection between those two water bodies has really been constricted by human development."

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https://cfjctoday.com/2021/09/16/ecological-future-of-islands-englishman-river-secured-through-multi-million-dollar-donation/


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 18, 2021, 08:40:20 AM


After 66 years, Eklutna River will run uninterrupted

>>>Water releases down the Eklutna River in Southcentral Alaska will allow the river to run uninterrupted from its headwaters to the sea for the first time in 66 years.

The project is a long-time goal of the Native Village of Eklutna, the only traditional village within the municipality of Anchorage. It is a goal that tribal members have waited a long time to see, said village chief Aaron Leggett.

"We had gotten so used to just a trickle of mud running through our village that we forgot how beautiful the river is," he said. "Since the dam came down in 2018, the river has once again been running clear. We notice, the salmon notice, and the bears notice."

"This is what the fish need, more water," said Eric Booton, of Trout Unlimited, which helped raise awareness of the Eklutna River and helped fund some of the scientific research into how to fix the problem. "It's almost a miracle that all five species of Alaska's Pacific salmon have survived in the muddy trickle after all we've put the Eklutna River through over the past 66 years."

https://www.thecordovatimes.com/2021/09/17/after-66-years-eklutna-river-will-run-uninterrupted/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 19, 2021, 09:12:54 AM
'From the Mountains to the Sea' offers a meticulous account of the restoration of the Penobscot River
A broad spectrum of people and groups came together with a common goal - and they actually got something done.

>>>If there were ever a time to be convinced of the importance of rivers, it's now. Reports from the western United States bring with them alarming images – including Chinook salmon dying en masse in California due to extreme heat and the Colorado River facing a water shortage for the first time in recorded history. Rivers play a critical part in how ecosystems function. They also factor into a number of industries, from generating power to farming to recreation.

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https://www.pressherald.com/2021/09/19/from-the-mountains-to-the-sea-offers-a-meticulous-account-of-the-restoration-of-the-penobscot-river/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 27, 2021, 08:38:57 AM
Steelhead: Life blood of Columbia Basin streams


>>>"...these Savages have wers made of willows across this little river (Walla Walla) where they catch large quantityes of Salmon trout, Suckers, &C"

— April 29, 1806, John Ordway, a sergeant with the U.S. Army who volunteered to join Lewis and Clark in their Voyage of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean.

Pound-for-pound, no freshwater fish fights harder than a steelhead. They swim faster and jump higher than their Pacific salmon relatives. Some have the capacity to migrate over 2,000 miles to the ocean and back, spawn and survive all obstacles to do it again.

No wonder these iconic fish are the favorite of many anglers.


>>>https://www.union-bulletin.com/lifestyles/steelhead-life-blood-of-columbia-basin-streams/article_83948430-0dce-11ec-b157-9b08123dc359.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 29, 2021, 08:45:40 AM

Dismal returns: 43 sockeye make the journey from the Pacific to central Idaho in 2021


>>>This year 43 sockeye salmon completed the 900-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to their nursery lakes near Stanley in central Idaho after braving especially difficult river conditions.

The dismal return was helped somewhat when Idaho Fish and Game stepped in and trapped 201 of the endangered fish at the Lower Granite Dam, the last dam on the lower Snake River, and trucked them to the Eagle Fish Hatchery west of Boise earlier this summer. The extraordinary move was taken when the river water temperatures were deemed too warm to support the migrating fish.

Despite so few fish returning to spawn, Fish and Game said it will have about 2,750 adult sockeye available to naturally spawn in Redfish and Pettit lakes or to replenish its hatcheries. The other fish will come from captive broodstock raised in hatcheries as an "insurance policy" when the sockeye returns are especially low.

https://www.postregister.com/news/local/dismal-returns-43-sockeye-make-the-journey-from-the-pacific-to-central-idaho-in-2021/article_0e0da410-bc3a-5625-89fa-561ae5123d50.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 03, 2021, 08:08:00 AM
Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River tribes in crisis

>>>In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a summer spent fishing on the Yukon River like generations before them.

This year, there are no fish. For the first time in memory, both king and chum salmon have dwindled to almost nothing and the state has banned salmon fishing on the Yukon, even the subsistence harvests that Alaska Natives rely on to fill their freezers and pantries for winter. The remote communities that dot the river and live off its bounty -- far from road systems and easy, affordable shopping -- are desperate and doubling down on moose and caribou hunts in the waning days of fall.

"Nobody has fish in their freezer right now. Nobody," said Giovanna Stevens, 38, a member of the Stevens Village tribe who grew up harvesting salmon at her family's fish camp. "We have to fill that void quickly before winter gets here."



https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/dwindling-alaska-salmon-leave-yukon-river-tribes-in-crisis-1.5608667

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 22, 2021, 08:20:41 AM
Salmon decline impacted by "squeeze" of combined river and sea stressors

>>>Researchers from Simon Fraser University's Salmon Watershed Lab have found that recent declines of Pacific salmon and trout are associated with 40 years of changes in their combined marine and freshwater ecosystems.

Led by lab researcher Kyle Wilson, the study found that stressors in both environments combine to impact fish resiliency. "It's not just the ocean that is driving declines," says Wilson, a former SFU Banting postdoctoral fellow. "The combination of marine and freshwater stressors effectively 'squeezes' some salmon populations by lowering survival in both the river and the sea."

The study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, traces declining numbers in five salmon species found in the Keogh River near Port Hardy on Vancouver Island.

The declines were found to coincide with combinations of stressful environmental changes including fluctuating ocean climate, increases in coastal seals and other competing salmon, warmer water temperatures, and increased watershed logging.

https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2021/10/salmon-decline-impacted-by--squeeze--of-combined-river-and-sea-s/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 22, 2021, 08:34:41 AM
Maine environmental groups sue to protect last Atlantic salmon, force dams to halt
The court action is part of an ongoing legal struggle over the fate of the dams. Brookfield sued Maine state agencies last month with a complaint that the agencies acted improperly in drafting fish passage policies.

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https://www.centralmaine.com/2021/10/21/maine-environmental-groups-sue-to-protect-last-atlantic-salmon-force-dams-to-halt/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 24, 2021, 17:23:12 PM
Atlantic mackerel fishing shut down for the rest of the year


>>>The federal government is shutting down the harvest of an important species of fish for the rest of the year because of concerns about overfishing.

Fishermen from Maine to North Carolina commercially harvest Atlantic mackerel, which is used as food as well as bait. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it closed the fishery starting Oct. 15.


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/10/24/news/atlantic-mackerel-fishing-shut-down-for-the-rest-of-the-year/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 03, 2021, 08:29:56 AM
Retiring ghillie considers the Tay's vanishing salmon


>>>A legendary angler who claims to have landed more salmon in Scotland than anyone else, past or present, has retired from his job as a ghillie on the River Tay.

Former police inspector George McInnes (81) will take life at home in Guildtown, Perthshire more slowly now but his lifelong interest in the water leads him to sound the alarm about fishing in future.

George, who had previously been a professional footballer for Aberdeen and Oxford United, came to Perth 60 years ago to join the police. When he wasn't pounding the beat as a constable or investigating crime as a detective, George was fishing the best beats of the River Tay in its heyday when the pools were stuffed with salmon in spring, summer and autumn.

He retired from the force 29 years ago to become head ghillie on the Ballathie beat.

George reckons he has caught a staggering 20,000 Atlantic salmon since he was a youngster in his home village of Carrbridge.


https://todayuknews.com/us-news/retiring-ghillie-considers-the-tays-vanishing-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 03, 2021, 08:49:49 AM
New fish ladder welcomes fall run chinook salmon at Nimbus Hatchery


>>>It's the season for chinook salmon to begin their journey from the ocean to the waterways where they were hatched.

For millions of fish, that means a trek up the American River to the Nimbus Hatchery where they were spawned.

Waiting for this year's run of fish is a brand-new fish ladder that extends 1,900 feet from the Nimbus Dam to the hatchery building.


https://www.kcra.com/article/new-fish-ladder-fall-run-chinook-salmon-nimbus-hatchery/38133768




Richard Brautigan wrote about sectioning off rivers in Trout Fishing in America. 1900 feet is a good start...


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 05, 2021, 08:34:31 AM
Eight months to prevent extinction and deliver justice in the Pacific Northwest
Last month, two new cracks spread across the face of the political dam that has for decades blocked progress on restoring abundant populations of wild salmon and steelhead to the Inland Northwest.

>>>Last month, two new cracks spread across the face of the political dam that has for decades blocked progress on restoring abundant populations of wild salmon and steelhead to the Inland Northwest.

First, a coalition of fishing and conservation groups including American Rivers joined with the Biden administration, the State of Oregon and the Nez Perce Tribe to ask a federal judge to pause until next summer litigation challenging the latest federal plan for hydropower operations on the lower Snake and lower Columbia rivers. We have committed to work together to develop and implement a comprehensive, long-term solution to benefit endangered salmon and steelhead and that could resolve the long-running litigation over Columbia and Snake River dam operations. The stay, which the judge has granted, will last until July 31, 2022.

Second, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) announced a "federal-state process on salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin and the Pacific Northwest" with Washington Governor Jay Inslee to explore how the hydropower, transportation and irrigation benefits of the four lower Snake River dams in eastern Washington can be replaced if they are breached.  They committed to deliver their plan by July

https://www.americanrivers.org/2021/11/eight-months-to-prevent-extinction-and-deliver-justice-in-the-pacific-northwest/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 05, 2021, 08:38:21 AM


https://youtu.be/GZcL3ZB6mKY

The news from the Sonoma Ecology Center was clear: "We all feel like celebrating over this news: Sonoma Creek has salmon again!"

Research program manager and aquatic scientist Steven Lee assembled showcased the return in video of the Chinook (King salmon) as they made their journey upstream and began settling into their spawning habitats.

The abundant rainfall that Sonoma County received in late October created ideal conditions for Chinook to make their way back to the local creek. Chinook salmon spawn in Pacific streams from California to Alaska, and their numbers have been in serious decline for decades.

Chinook were known to have successfully spawned in Sonoma Creek a few years ago, and it's possible some of these are their offspring are returning to spawn. The Sonoma Ecology Center has conducted studies of young fish migrating out of Sonoma Creek and found, in addition to steelhead, a surprising number of young Chinook are heading out to the bay and ocean. It's hard to know for sure if these fish originate from Sonoma Creek – there are many salmon released from hatcheries in the Central Valley who could be making their way up local waterways. Some of the fish we observed do have clipped adipose fins – an indication that they were raised in a hatchery. However, many of the fish in Sonoma Creek right now lack this indicator and their size suggests that they are the right age to have come from the last run here.

The video shows both male (bucks) and female (hens) – males present as redder in color and with a hooked snout while females tend to be smaller and more torpedo-shaped. Both must go through significant changes in making the transition from ocean dwelling to freshwater fish, and to prepare to reproduce. Both male and female Chinook show up to spawn about the same time in our streams, as water starts to drop after a larger, late-fall storm.

https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/watch-salmon-are-back-in-sonoma-creek/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 06, 2021, 08:46:40 AM
Trout Unlimited Lawsuit Is a Win for Salmon, Deals Another Blow to Pebble Mine
The recent court ruling in favor of Trout Unlimited reinvigorates the process of securing permanent protections for the headwaters of Bristol Bay

>>>Last Friday's decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska represents a decisive win for Trout Unlimited, the fishermen of Bristol Bay, and opponents of the controversial Pebble Mine. The ruling overturns the Environmental Protection Agency's 2019 decision to withdraw its 404(c) Proposed Determination that would restrict parts of the Bristol Bay watershed from mining activity. That determination was made in 2014, after the EPA issued its assessment of the potential negative impacts that large-scale mining would have on one of the world's most valuable salmon fisheries.

The decision concludes a two-year-long lawsuit by Trout Unlimited, and it represents a significant step toward safeguarding the Bristol Bay watershed by permanently protecting its headwaters from large-scale mining operations.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/trout-unlimited-lawsuit-pebble-mine/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 14, 2021, 10:41:25 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/GMA3/video/climate-change-salmon-brink-81132496

VIDEO: Climate change: Salmon on the brink
Research scientist Lisa Crozier on the dwindling salmon population and its threat to the indigenous tribes in the Pacific Northwest.
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Post by: Trout Maharishi on November 14, 2021, 15:53:50 PM
Quit eating wild salmon might help
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 16, 2021, 12:39:08 PM
Monday, November 15th 2021, 2:45 pm - Over 100 endangered Atlantic salmon were counted as they made their return to rivers in New Brunwick's Fundy National Park.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 16, 2021, 12:55:44 PM
watch the salmon video here

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/endangered-atlantic-salmon-are-returning-to-n-b-in-record-numbers
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 16, 2021, 13:27:38 PM
Feds pledge $2.7 million in funds for Klamath Basin salmon recovery

>>>The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has announced $2.7 million in funding for projects aimed at helping coho salmon in the Klamath River basin.
The species is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and has seen its numbers dwindle amid rising river temperatures and reduced water flows.

The grant announced Monday will be administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, with help from federal and state agencies, and will prioritize projects that improve salmon habitat and fish passage in the lower part of the river and its tributaries, according to a bureau news release.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-15/2-7-million-in-federal-funds-for-klamath-salmon-recovery
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 17, 2021, 09:17:45 AM
Infrastructure matters for wildlife too - here's how aging culverts are blocking Pacific salmon migration

>>>As the Biden administration prepares to make the biggest investment in U.S. infrastructure in more than a decade, there's much discussion about how systems like roads, bridges and electric power grids affect people's daily lives. Here's an angle that's received less attention: Wildlife depends on infrastructure too.

>>>In 2001, 21 of Washington's treaty tribes took the state to court to force it to repair or replace culverts that would ensure safe passage for salmon and other fish. In 2013, a U.S. District Court judge set deadlines to repair Washington's worst culverts.

The state appealed the ruling, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it. As a result, the state now faces a 2030 deadline to repair 490 of its most problematic culverts. In 2018 Washington's Department of Fish and Wildlife conservatively estimated that the state had 20,000 impaired culverts, including those affected by the federal injunction.

Washington's Fish Barrier Removal Board oversees culvert repair projects. It includes appointees from many state organizations, but none from the treaty tribes involved in the litigation. The board has approved about eight funded repair or replacement projects per year since 2017, but it needs to fund at least 36 per year to meet the injunction deadline.

https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Infrastructure-matters-for-wildlife-too-16624693.php
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 21, 2021, 08:17:46 AM



>>>November 19, 2021 – The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has begun releasing juvenile fall-run Chinook salmon into the Klamath River now that river conditions have improved with cooler temperatures and increased flows that give the young salmon their best chance at survival and reaching the Pacific Ocean.

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https://yubanet.com/california/cdfw-saves-more-than-2-million-chinook-salmon-from-drought/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 25, 2021, 11:07:19 AM
Not that i'll be fishing for Atlantic Salmon any time soon...

Hook and Release Study on Atlantic Salmon Provides Recommendations for Anglers

Three important recommendations from the report for anglers are:

Do not practice intentional hook and release in water temperatures over 18 degrees Celsius (64.4 F);
Do not remove the salmon from the water;
Do not touch or handle the salmon unless absolutely necessary (use bare wet hands if needed).

https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2021/ffa/1123n08/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 30, 2021, 09:36:04 AM


Here's what brought king salmon back to Bay Area rivers

>>>Last year, only one fish was reported in lower Alameda Creek. Now there are many, trapped in a small pool created by a concrete barrier near BART piers.

And for the first time in recorded history, National Park Service biologists documented a female Chinook on a gravel nest in Marin County's Olema Creek, which flows through Point Reyes Station to Tomales Bay. Nearby, also for the first time, a pair of salmon were seen swimming in Bolinas' Pine Gulch Creek.

A newly restored stretch of San Geronimo Creek received a historic rainfall of 10 inches in a 24-hour period — and within three days, chinook salmon were swimming through the riffles and milling about in pools, according to Turtle Island Restoration Network. In Sonoma County, fish swam from San Pablo Bay up to Sonoma Creek.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/heres-what-brought-king-salmon-back-to-bay-area-rivers/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 01, 2021, 09:30:46 AM


Coho salmon run shatters record as steelhead numbers flop


>>>A record shattering number of coho has made the long journey from their home streams, to the ocean, and back. Nearly 24,000 coho salmon have made passage through the Lower Granite Dam — the last dam between the ocean and the Grande Ronde and Wallowa rivers.

The prior record, set in 2014, saw 18,098 coho make their way past the Lower Granite Dam. In recent years, those numbers have fluctuated between 1,449 and 8,178, with 2020 seeing just 7797 coho return to the Lower Granite Dam. The run this year marks more than a 300% increase from the previous year.



https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/coho-salmon-run-shatters-record-as-steelhead-numbers-flop/article_f11e82f1-7b0c-593f-b90d-717315f45419.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 02, 2021, 12:00:11 PM
World renowned author and anti-salmon farming activist Morton to give special presentation for Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

BAR HARBOR – Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate 30-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon from salmon farms. Her account of that fight is both inspiring and a roadmap for resistance to industrial-scale aquaculture.

Morton has agreed to give a special lecture virtually from her home in British Columbia on Dec. 06 at 5 p.m. (EST) as part of the MDIBL Science Café series. A question-and-answer session will follow.

"This important conversation comes at a critical time for Frenchman Bay and Maine as we face the rising challenge of industrial-scale aquaculture," said Jeri Bowers, director of public affairs and development at MDIBL and treasurer of Frenchman Bay United, a coalition that is leading the fight against the American Aquafarms proposal. "We all can learn a lot from Alexandra Morton and her incredible fight against big aquaculture over the past 30 years."


>>>This event is free and open to the public, but attendees must register in advance. To register go to https://mdibl.org/event/not-on-my-watch/. A Zoom link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/12/01/bdn-maine/world-renowned-author-and-anti-salmon-farming-activist-morton-to-give-special-presentation-for-mount-desert-island-biological-laboratory/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 10, 2021, 10:59:22 AM
The salmon of 2100 will have new habitat: the remains of melted glaciers
A new analysis highlights how climate change can bring both opportunities and threats for the fish.

>>>Scientists used computer models to simulate how meltwater will feed new streams and lakes across western North America, and found that retreating glaciers could create thousands of miles of new habitat for Pacific salmon by the end of the century. Understanding where and when these piscine frontiers will emerge will be key for future conservation plans, the researchers reported on December 7 in Nature Communications.

"This showcases how climate change is fundamentally transforming ecosystems; what is now under ice is becoming a brand new river," says Jonathan Moore, who leads the Salmon Watersheds Lab at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and coauthored the new findings. "We can't just manage for current salmon habitat, we also need to think about how we can manage for future salmon habitat."

Glacial retreat does pose a threat to salmon in some areas. "It can decrease the air conditioner effect that glaciers have on downstream rivers, so rivers will be getting warmer during the summer," Moore says. And as glaciers shrink, less seasonal meltwater is available to feed these rivers in summertime. However, when glaciers melt away from valley bottoms they can create new streams. "The rivers will be lengthening as the glaciers will be retreating up the valley, and other work has found that salmon can find and thrive in these newborn river systems," Moore says.

https://www.popsci.com/science/melting-glaciers-new-homes-pacific-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 17, 2021, 10:36:29 AM
The shad hoard: Is the proliferation of a nonnative fish in the Columbia River harming native salmon?


>>>On any given day at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, the most common fish fighting its way up the dam's fish ladders is a silvery member of the herring family.

In fact, during some years nonnative shad, which were first introduced to the West Coast in the 1880s, make up more than 90% of recorded upstream migrants, according to an Independent Scientific Advisory Board report to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council published in November.

That reality has raised questions about how, or if, shad are impacting native steelhead and salmon, two ocean-going species whose populations have plummeted in recent decades.

"We want to know whether the shad are in some way contributing to salmon and steelhead declines," said John Epifanio, the lead author of the report. "Or alternatively, are they just simply taking advantage of some changes in the ecological conditions in the basin itself and out in the ocean?"

The report doesn't offer a conclusive answer to whether shad are hurting salmon, although it does highlight how a changing climate and disrupted ecosystem can favor one species while hurting another.


https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/dec/16/the-shad-hoard-is-the-proliferation-of-a-nonnative/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 22, 2021, 09:34:33 AM
Help Protect Southern California Steelhead
California Trout is currently leading the effort to have Southern California steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) listed as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act. We need your help to make this happen: View and sign our petition now and read on to learn why your signature matters.

Listing the species as endangered will be the first step that California state agencies take to better inform their future fishery management decisions. It will allow agencies to prioritize funding for restoration and ensure any projects in the fish's range avoid adverse impacts to the population. Moreover, the listing provides acknowledgement of the species' fundamental importance and their dire situation.

Southern California steelhead are an iconic native species. These fish are one of the best indicators of the greater health of the whole watershed. Southern California watersheds provide countless social and economic benefits for our entire state. We prosper when rivers and waterways in key locations are thriving. Southern steelhead are the central to this relationship.




https://caltrout.org/news/trout-clout-take-action-to-protect-southern-california-steelhead
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 03, 2022, 09:13:09 AM
It will be death knell for all Connemara rivers': fish farm plan sparks concerns

>>>In 2019, 1,393,000 metric tons of farmed Atlantic salmon were produced in Norway. It was reported that 43,000 escaped from fish farms in 2020. The mean annual number of escapees reported during the last 10 years was 168,000 salmon.

The actual numbers were two to four times higher than reported, according to the Institute of Marine Research during 2005-2011.

Studies have also shown there is widespread genetic introgression of escaped farmed salmon in wild salmon. The gene flow from escaped farmed salmon has altered the life history of wild Atlantic salmon in Norwegian rivers. Individuals with high levels of introgression from farmed fish have altered age and size at maturation.

Salmon returning to rivers each year has also diminished due to the impacts of salmon lice. This reduction threatens salmon populations in the most impacted areas and has significantly reduced the harvestable surplus for angling and marine fisheries over large parts of the country.

In 2010-2014, the report estimated that 50,000 fewer salmon returned from the ocean each year due to the impacts of salmon lice. For 2018, it was estimated there was a reduction of 29,000 salmon due to salmon lice, and for 2019 a reduction of 39,000 salmon.


https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/it-will-be-death-knell-for-all-connemara-rivers-fish-farm-plan-sparks-concerns-1.4766603
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 05, 2022, 11:43:43 AM
Low numbers of baby salmon portend disaster for endangered California fish

alarmingly low numbers of baby salmon are surviving their journey down the Sacramento River to the sea, confirming conservationists' fears that low flows and high river temperatures during the drought would wipe out most of the endangered winter-run salmon born last year.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/low-numbers-of-baby-salmon-portend-disaster-for-endangered-california-fish/ar-AASrgp5?ocid=hplocalnews
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 08, 2022, 09:33:04 AM
Forsyth County painter combines art with the outdoors to win international competition, raise money for salmon conservation in Canada

>>>This past month, Jablonowski won his first international competition. His painting titled, "On the Move," won first place out of 13 entries at the Salmon Conservation Stamp Competition in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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https://www.forsythnews.com/life/people/forsyth-county-painter-combines-art-outdoors-win-international-competition-raise-money-salmon-conservation-canada/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 08, 2022, 09:43:30 AM
https://youtu.be/Cl2iY87Sic8
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 09, 2022, 09:49:33 AM
https://youtu.be/WK3KQvZqwrY

In July, Marin County creeks were almost bone dry. Now there's so much water running through them that salmon are spawning like no one has seen for decades. John Ramos reports (1-8-22)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 26, 2022, 09:07:54 AM
Humble suckers: Pacific lamprey have survived 5 mass extinctions but are now under threat
Cooperative efforts between tribes and non-Native institutions are helping conserve the under-researched Devonian darlings.


>>>Lamprey have been around longer than sturgeon and dinosaurs, even longer than trees. All trees. They've survived five mass extinctions and haven't evolved since at least the Cretaceous Era, 66 million years ago. But these Devonian darlings may not be long for the modern world. Dams, habitat degradation, extirpation and other colonial factors have reduced returning lamprey numbers in some basins from millions to what you can count on one hand. "This might be their extinction," Lampman said. "Our impact is more than 400 million years of impact combined. It's a wake-up call for us."




https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.2/indiginous-affairs-fish-humble-suckers-pacific-lamprey-have-survived-5-mass-extinctions-but-are-now-under-threat
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 01, 2022, 10:47:37 AM
'Unprecedented' expedition to study oceanic habitat of salmon leaves Port Angeles
Four vessels from across the world, including NOAA's Shimada from Port Angeles, are traveling to the North Pacific Ocean to study salmon.

>>>PORT ANGELES, Wash. — A battalion of scientists looking for salmon left Washington state Monday bound for the North Pacific Ocean. The expedition is made up of around 40 scientists from five countries on four ships.

The Shimada left Port Angeles Monday, bound for Alaska and then the waters between the United States and Russia.

Dr. Laurie Weitkamp, the chief scientist for the expedition, spoke to KING 5 from The Shimada, explaining that the scientists will be studying lots of different water habitats but primarily focusing on salmon because the majority of a salmon's life cycle happens in these waters.

"The goal is really trying to understand oceanic salmon habitats," Weitkamp said. "We know a lot about salmon when they're in our coastal ocean, but we don't know very much at all about when they leave."

https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/pan-pacific-winter-high-seas-expedition-salmon/281-437e76f1-2ac6-4db0-bf62-32a2e6e173a7


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 02, 2022, 17:09:50 PM
Scotland hopes to save wild salmon by planting millions of trees next to rivers
River Dee initiative comes as rising water temperature from climate heating threatens species' survival



>>>Millions of trees are being planted beside Scotland's remotest rivers and streams to protect wild salmon from the worst effects of climate heating.

Fisheries scientists have found rivers and burns in the Highlands and uplands are already too warm in summer for wild Atlantic salmon as they head upstream to spawn, increasing the threat to the species' survival.

Fisheries on the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, one of the country's most famous salmon fishing rivers, have planted 250,000 saplings along key tributaries. They plan to plant a million in the Dee's catchment by 2035, including native rowan, aspen, Scots pine, birch, willow, hawthorn and juniper.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/02/scotland-save-wild-salmon-planting-millions-trees-rivers
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 03, 2022, 09:30:23 AM
Salmon Are No Longer Kings Of The Columbia. That Has Biologists Worried

A recent report shows an explosion of growth of a non-native species in the Columbia River. What does that mean for salmon and the cultures built on them?

>>>In 1957, the steel gates of the Dalles Dam closed and—13 miles upstream on the Columbia River—one of North America's largest waterfalls was inundated with water.

With that, an important Indigenous cultural gathering place was flooded and an unforeseen ecological cascade triggered.

Now, 77 years later, often the most common fish found flopping up Bonneville Dam's fish ladders are nonnative shad, a silvery member of the herring family and the unlikely beneficiary of the flooding of Celilo Falls.

"The shad are, even though they run out to the ocean and come back, they are not great swimmers like salmon are," says John Epifanio, lead author of a newly published report examining the proliferation of shad in the Columbia River system.

Some years shad, which were introduced to the West Coast in the 1880s, make up more than 90% of recorded upstream migrants, according to an Independent Scientific Advisory Board report to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council published in November.

https://www.invw.org/2022/02/02/salmon-are-no-longer-kings-of-the-columbia-that-has-biologists-worried/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 03, 2022, 09:34:40 AM
The Atlantic salmon should be named our national fish

The United States has numerous official symbols. The American bald eagle is our national bird, the North American bison our national mammal, the rose our national flower and the oak our national tree. One thing we don't have is a national fish.

The most recent attempt to create a national fish was in 2015, when New Jersey Rep. Tom MacArthur introduced the Striped Bass American Heritage Act. The initiative apparently didn't get far, as the website promoting it has been inactive for over five years.

https://observer-me.com/2022/02/02/opinion/the-atlantic-salmon-should-be-named-our-national-fish/

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Post by: trout-r-us on February 03, 2022, 19:39:38 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on February 03, 2022, 09:34:40 AMThe Atlantic salmon should be named our national fish

The United States has numerous official symbols. The American bald eagle is our national bird, the North American bison our national mammal, the rose our national flower and the oak our national tree. One thing we don't have is a national fish.

The most recent attempt to create a national fish was in 2015, when New Jersey Rep. Tom MacArthur introduced the Striped Bass American Heritage Act. The initiative apparently didn't get far, as the website promoting it has been inactive for over five years.

https://observer-me.com/2022/02/02/opinion/the-atlantic-salmon-should-be-named-our-national-fish/


From quoted article.

"The Penobscot Salmon Club in Brewer, established in 1887, is said to have been America's first fishing club. The Veazie Salmon Club, Eddington Salmon Club and the now-defunct Dennys River Sportsman's Club followed suit"

Some may challenge the above statement as being about 150 years too late.

"Also known as the Schuylkill Fishing Company, the State in Schuylkill was the first angling club in the American Colonies. It was founded in 1732 and remains the oldest continuously active social club in the English-speaking world—a designation only London sources contest".
https://mainlinetoday.com/life-style/the-somewhat-secret-history-of-the-oldest-social-club-in-america/#:~:text=Also%20known%20as%20the%20Schuylkill%20Fishing%20Company%2C%20the,the%20English-speaking%20world—a%20designation%20only%20London%20sources%20contest.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 25, 2022, 09:38:45 AM
Washington announces unprecedented full closure of coastal steelhead fishing

>>>OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced a full closure of coastal steelhead fishing on Wednesday.

The unprecedented move is being made to help support conservation efforts.

The closure begins Tuesday, March 1, and will be in effect for all sport fishing throughout the Washington coast and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/washington-announces-unprecedented-full-closure-coastal-steelhead-fishing/CHJE7WZVZFCXBKFAVGJGJXFWVY/
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Post by: jwgnc on February 25, 2022, 10:58:39 AM
I loved chasing Steelhead in Washington.  Pic from many years ago on the Wenatchee.

Wenatchee Steelhead.jpg
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 26, 2022, 09:15:21 AM
Wild salmon are getting smaller and it might be linked to aquaculture

>>>The study, published recently in journal Science, showed the shrinking size of Atlantic salmon in the River Teno in Northern Finland might not be due to directly fishing salmon. Rather, the impacts could stem from an indirect effect: the commercial fishery of one of wild salmons' favorite foods in the ocean: a small omega-3 rich fish called capelin.

This indirect effect identified in the study puts the spotlight on salmon aquaculture. Some of the capelin fishery catch is used as fishmeal for salmon aquaculture food, suggesting strong harvest and declining capelin abundance can be an indirect way salmon aquaculture could influence wild salmon populations.

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-wild-salmon-smaller-linked-aquaculture.html

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 26, 2022, 09:18:44 AM
Judge sides with Maine dam owner in environmentalists' lawsuit over fish kills


>>>Four Kennebec River dams can continue operating while a lawsuit accusing their owners of illegally killing vulnerable fish goes forward, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

The ruling was a setback for environmental groups that say Brookfield Renewable is violating the Endangered Species Act. While U.S. District Court Judge Jon D. Levy said the groups would likely succeed in proving Atlantic salmon are harmed by the dams, but he doubted forcing them to sit idle until they improved fish-passage standards would be an effective remedy.

It leaves a narrow path forward for environmentalists in the latest development in a long controversy over the dams between Waterville and Skowhegan. The administration of Gov. Janet Mills dropped a plan early last year that could have led to the removal of all four dams and softened her stance further as the year went on after backlash from Fairfield millworkers.


https://news.yahoo.com/judge-sides-maine-dam-owner-010200756.html

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 26, 2022, 09:26:36 AM
Fisheries closed in Olympic National Park rivers to protect rainbow trout populations

>>>FORKS, Wash. – The National Parks Service announced that recreational fishing will be closed for all Olympic National Park rivers in an effort to wild steelhead populations.  Starting March 1, no fishing will be allowed in the Hoh, South Fork Hoh, Bogachiel, Dickey, and Quillayute river systems within Olympic National Park.

Fishing closed in Olympic National Park rivers to protect steelhead populations Fishing will reopen on June 1.

https://www.bollyinside.com/news/sports/fisheries-closed-in-olympic-national-park-rivers-to-protect-rainbow-trout-populations
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 03, 2022, 10:08:56 AM
Wild fish stocks squandered to feed farmed salmon, study finds
Wealthy nations accused of depriving poorer ones of nutrient-rich food and wasting mackerel, sardine and anchovy stocks

Shoppers' appetite for salmon is causing millions of tonnes of nutritious mackerel, sardines and anchovies to be wasted as fish feed, according to new research.

Its authors say farming salmon is an inefficient way to produce nutritious seafood, calculating that half to 99% of minerals, vitamins and fatty acids in the wild-caught fish are not retained when fed to farmed Atlantic salmon.

They say removing wild-caught fish from aquaculture feed production and diverting them to human consumption, and farming more carp and fewer salmon, could increase global seafood production by 6.1m tonnes, while leaving 3.7m tonnes of fish in the sea.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/02/wild-fish-stocks-squandered-to-feed-farmed-salmon-study-finds


https://youtu.be/6ps0truARKs
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 04, 2022, 09:06:24 AM
US and Russian scientists are still working together to solve salmon mysteries


Tensions continue to simmer between Moscow and Washington, D.C., in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Oil companies are canceling partnerships with Russian firms. State legislators are calling for the state's sovereign wealth fund to dump Russian investments. President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the U.S. would close its airspace to Russian aircraft.

But the United States and Russia are still working together on at least one issue: salmon.

There's a map scattered with orange, green, blue and red dots spanning most of the North Pacific above 46 degrees latitude.

On the map are three flags of Arctic nations: the U.S., Canada and the Russian Federation.

"This interaction between the countries in this is really something that has never happened to this scale before," said Mark Saunders, the executive director of the five-country North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission.

He's talking about the 2022 Pan-Pacific Winter High Seas Expedition.

Vessels from both sides of the Pacific are braving gale-force winds and 13-foot seas as they crisscross the ocean from the edge of the Aleutian Chain to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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https://www.alaskapublic.org/2022/03/03/us-and-russian-scientists-are-still-working-together-to-solve-salmon-mysteries/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 09, 2022, 09:49:44 AM

New documentary on plight of Scotland's salmon narrated by Peter Capaldi

A feature-length documentary about Scotland's precious salmon rivers narrated by Peter Capaldi will be screened for free across the country.

Riverwoods aims to show how Scotland's rivers, and the landscapes they run through, could be transformed for the better by regenerating river woodlands.

Across the nation, biodiversity has slumped over the centuries and native species of animal and plantlife in Scotland face all manner of challenges caused by the likes of pollution and loss of habitat.

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/environment/4022306/new-documentary-on-plight-of-scotlands-salmon-narrated-by-peter-capaldi/


https://youtu.be/ZNRVxxl_TuA

It will be screened in Scotland... don't know when it will be available to view online...

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 19, 2022, 08:41:14 AM
From ballistics to biodiversity: How one man traded weapons inspections in Iraq for saving salmon in Scotland

>>>Two decades ago, Roger Knight could never have imagined he'd one day be standing on the banks of the Spey, Scotland's most famous fishing river, and worrying about its water.

Back then, his worries were a little different.

He was working as a weapons inspector in Iraq with the United Nations and was part of a number of different inspection teams based in Baghdad, covering everything from chemical weapons and nuclear warfare to ballistic missiles.

Was it frightening?

"Not really," Roger said, "I'd had a pretty good background in dealing with difficult environments when I was an officer in the army. I suppose it was just more worrying in terms of the weapons programs that the Iraqis had pursued."

But after a long career in the army, a stint with the Foreign Office and a decade with the UN, in 2007 Roger swapped weapons for waders when he moved to Scotland to become director of the Spey Fishery Board.

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>>>The River Spey cuts right through the heart of north-east Scotland, running like an artery from the wild upper reaches of the Cairngorms to the Moray Firth.

It covers 1,900 square miles of beautiful country estate.

Internationally renowned for salmon fishing, it features on countless bucket lists the world over.

"Salmon fishing on the Spey brings in between £12 and £15 million a year to the local economy," Roger said.

That doesn't count permits or estate fees either. That's the pure income generated for hotels, restaurants and local shops off the back of visitors travelling to Speyside to fish.

But the salmon that once crowded these waters have all but disappeared.

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/environment/4063364/from-ballistics-to-biodiversity-how-one-man-traded-weapons-inspections-in-iraq-for-saving-salmon-in-scotland/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 30, 2022, 08:14:03 AM
Salmon travel deep into the Pacific. As it warms, many 'don't come back.'
A research expedition is trying to understand salmon booms and busts in the 'black box' of the high seas

>>>During a typical fall, almost a million chum salmon pour into Alaska's Yukon River, a torrent of wild fish that has sustained the economy and Indigenous culture in the far north for generations. Last year, that run collapsed, with salmon trickling upstream at a 10th of normal levels, forcing the state to airlift frozen fish from other regions to feed the population.

About 400 miles to the south, in Bristol Bay, the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery set a record last year, with more than 66 million salmon returning to the rivers in the watershed. That total is expected to be broken again this year.


>>>"Salmon will go out, in what we think is a really good ocean, and then it collapses," said Weitkamp, a fisheries biologist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration based in Oregon. "They don't come back."

The pressures salmon face in their home rivers, and their experience in coastal waters, are well documented. But less is known about what they endure on the high seas. It is there where some species of salmon spend several years before returning to spawn — and where Weitkamp says many are dying as marine heat waves driven by climate change are altering their ecosystem.

"Once they leave that coastal area, that's where they enter the black box," she said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/03/28/salmon-alaska-climate-change/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 08, 2022, 12:42:33 PM
https://youtu.be/6Ps8HHhbKNc
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 13, 2022, 09:11:41 AM
B.C. group cuts 30-metre wide hole in jetty, opens path for salmon not seen in 100 years
An estimated 1,200 barriers block access to salmon habitat across the Lower Fraser River. A 30-metre breach punched in a 100-year-old jetty shows what's possible when they are torn down.


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>>>For more than 100 years, a seven-kilometre-long jetty has defined the entrance of the North Arm of the Fraser River. Behind it, rafts of logs floated down from inland forests have long been protected from wind and waves.

But what sheltered shipping and the forestry industry meant annihilation for large swathes of salmon habitat — brackish waters where juvenile fish prepare themselves for the transition from fresh water to a life at sea.

"It's one of the main structures in the Fraser Estuary that reduces connectivity for salmon," said Dave Scott, a biologist with Raincoast Conservation Foundation and a PhD candidate in the Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation Lab at the University of British Columbia.


https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/bc-group-cuts-30-metre-wide-hole-in-jetty-opens-path-for-salmon-not-seen-in-100-years-5258646



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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 16, 2022, 07:53:49 AM
Dam busters: Tearing down concrete walls to save Atlantic salmon

Since the 20th century, European rivers have been dammed and diverted for the sake of generating renewable energy. But the concrete walls have left an indelible mark, upending entire ecosystems. Migratory fish species in particular are paying the price. Atlantic salmon can no longer find they way back to their home streams to spawn, pushing the species to the brink of extinction. Should dams be torn down in the name of biodiversity? We take a closer look in this edition of Down to Earth.

https://youtu.be/TwQUJhkz6YY


https://f24.my/8YNB
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 16, 2022, 07:59:43 AM
Southern California steelhead are on the brink of extinction.

In the past 25 years, only 177 adult Southern steelhead were documented in their native range. This is a dire contrast when compared to historical runs in the 10,000s throughout major Southern California rivers. California Trout is currently leading the effort to this list this native fish (Oncorhynchus mykiss) as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). The CESA listing will expand the scope and scale of watershed restoration work. 

During the February 2022 California Fish and Game Commission (FGC) meeting, the Commission heard presentations from scientists with CDFW �— who evaluated and affirmed the science supporting the Southern steelhead CESA petition — and from CalTrout's South Coast Regional Director, Dr. Sandra Jacobson. Following the presentations, CDFW Fisheries Branch concluded that the petition contained sufficient scientific merit to warrant action by the Commission. The Commission also received comments from stakeholders on whether to advance the CalTrout-led petition to list Southern steelhead through CESA. If advanced, the FGC would require CDFW to complete a year-long status review of the species. During the status review period, Southern steelhead would be considered a "candidate species" and thus would receive the full protections of a listed endangered species during that time.

https://caltrout.org/news/trout-clout-protections-needed-for-southern-steelhead
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 16, 2022, 08:22:41 AM
WATCH: Premiere of new film documenting last cast of Easter Ross salmon fishing family

https://youtu.be/8e4eKdWmvL8

A capacity crowd in Easter Ross gathered to greet the first ever showing of a new film documenting the closing of a chapter in the history of Scottish salmon fishing.

William Paterson Salmon Fisher, a film by Stephen Macmillan, follows fisherman William Paterson, who has lost his income and much of his way of life due to changes in legislation relating to salmon fishing.

Described by filmmaker Stephen Macmillan as the "dynasty of Salmon fishing families in the north-east of Scotland", William's forefathers have been fishing with bag nets for wild Atlantic salmon in Easter Ross for over a hundred years and William is the last of the Paterson fishers.

The film follows William as he sets his net for one last time.
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Post by: Trout Maharishi on April 16, 2022, 19:45:08 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on April 16, 2022, 08:22:41 AMWATCH: Premiere of new film documenting last cast of Easter Ross salmon fishing family

https://youtu.be/zQMc0xESdbM

A capacity crowd in Easter Ross gathered to greet the first ever showing of a new film documenting the closing of a chapter in the history of Scottish salmon fishing.

William Paterson Salmon Fisher, a film by Stephen Macmillan, follows fisherman William Paterson, who has lost his income and much of his way of life due to changes in legislation relating to salmon fishing.

Described by filmmaker Stephen Macmillan as the "dynasty of Salmon fishing families in the north-east of Scotland", William's forefathers have been fishing with bag nets for wild Atlantic salmon in Easter Ross for over a hundred years and William is the last of the Paterson fishers.

The film follows William as he sets his net for one last time.

I don't think that's the right video?
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Post by: jwgnc on April 16, 2022, 23:08:07 PM
https://youtu.be/8e4eKdWmvL8 (https://youtu.be/8e4eKdWmvL8)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 18, 2022, 09:54:31 AM
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 03, 2022, 08:30:15 AM
Maine Dam Owner to Make Changes to Try to Save Salmon
The owner of hydroelectric dams in Maine says it's going to make changes to some of its operations to try to help save the final remaining wild Atlantic salmon in the United States.

>>>The country's last wild populations of the fish are found in a few Maine rivers. Salmon counters found fewer of the fish on one of those rivers, the Penobscot, last year than in any year since 2016.

Brookfield Renewable U.S. said Monday that it has begun shutdown procedures for dams on the lower Kennebec River to help the salmon migrate. The company is a subsidiary of a larger Canadian company that owns many dams in Maine.

A spokesperson for the company, David Heidrich, said the shutdowns will continue until the end of the salmon migrating season. The company said it made the voluntary move to shut down some operations after the detection of young salmon in the Sandy River, a tributary of the Kennebec.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/maine/articles/2022-05-02/maine-dam-owner-to-make-changes-to-try-to-save-salmon


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The Weston Dam was seen holding back the Kennebec River on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, in Skowhegan, Maine. Brookfield Renewable is the owner of four dams along the Kennebec River, including Weston.ROBERT F. BUKATY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/02/metro/maine-dam-company-make-changes-try-save-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 04, 2022, 08:30:26 AM


https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.q13fox.com/news/scientists-are-zeroing-in-on-best-practices-to-save-endangered-pnw-salmon&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTA4MTIwMTQ5OTgxNTU0NDc4MDAyGjFlZDM1NGNkMzYyYWMzZWI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0x2e3cMIyBsBt19dZvFNdJ
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 07, 2022, 08:05:04 AM
Suppressed science shows fish farms endanger wild salmon
Parasites, disease and potential escapes from open net-pen fish farms put all wild Pacific salmon at risk, including Chinook. Shockingly, this evidence isn't new — but some has been suppressed for a decade.


>>>The wild Pacific salmon story is a compelling illustration of nature's interconnectedness. For more than seven million years, the fish have been following a cycle from lakes, streams and rivers, through estuaries and into the Pacific Ocean, where they swim great distances over years, feeding and growing — and facing numerous obstacles to survival.

Once they've matured, surviving salmon make the arduous journey upstream, returning to spawning grounds and carrying nitrogen they've accumulated in the ocean. Along the way, they feed whales, people, bears, birds and more. Their nitrogen-rich remnants, dragged from the waters by bears and eagles, or pooped out, fertilize the magnificent coastal rainforests.

https://rabble.ca/environment/suppressed-science-shows-fish-farms-endanger-wild-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 08, 2022, 08:26:59 AM
B.C. fish are making a splash after newfound freedom from barriers

>>>Fish are getting a helping hand to thrive in British Columbia, thanks to restorative efforts from the provincial government and environmental organizations.

Since 2020, the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) has supported 13 B.C. barrier-removal projects for fish passages. To highlight its ongoing progress, the organization released videos in March for two of its current projects. They cover the migration of fish on the traditional territories of Lake Babine Nation and Takla Lake First Nation in the northern Interior.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/british-columbia-fish-are-making-a-splash-after-newfound-freedom-from-barriers
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 11, 2022, 08:29:45 AM
The last Penobscot River salmon to go to a US president was caught 30 years ago


>>>On April 1, 1912, Bangor resident Karl Anderson, a house painter, boat builder and Norwegian immigrant, headed to the Bangor Salmon Pool, to hit the water on the first day of fly fishing season in the Penobscot River.

He, like many others, hoped to catch an Atlantic salmon — a prized, legendary Maine delicacy, fished for centuries by both Indigenous and European peoples.

The 11-pound salmon Anderson reeled in was the first one caught that season, and it so delighted him that he packed it in ice and shipped it down to Washington, D.C., for the dinner table of then-President William H. Taft, as a token of respect. Taft reportedly ate it with cream sauce and parsley.

Thus began a tradition that lasted for decades, with Penobscot River anglers sending the first salmon caught in the river to the president — a tradition that ended for good in 2000, after fishing for wild Atlantic salmon was federally prohibited when the species gained protection under the Endangered Species Act.

https://bangordailynews.com/2022/05/11/news/bangor/presidential-penobscot-river-salmon-joam40zk0w/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 12, 2022, 09:27:40 AM
https://youtu.be/bgltT80vW2Y
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 17, 2022, 08:40:20 AM
'Off the charts': Copper River salmon is already nearing $1,000 per fish -- and that's just for pre-orders

Alaska-headquartered harvester, processor and supplier Copper River Seafoods has nearly sold out of its pre-orders for its 8-ounce sockeye salmon .

Inflation doesn't seem to be taking the wind out of Copper River salmon's first-catch appeal. 'We had so many pre-orders already, tomorrow will be hell,' one seller told IntraFish.

https://www.intrafish.com/markets/off-the-charts-copper-river-salmon-is-already-nearing-1-000-per-fish-and-thats-just-for-pre-orders/2-1-1220069
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 21, 2022, 07:45:09 AM
Wildlife officials truck Chinook salmon to cooler waters in emergency move to help them spawn

>>>>In a stopgap measure to help struggling spring- and winter-run Chinook salmon spawn in the face of rising water temperatures and lower water levels due to climate change, state and federal wildlife officials in Northern California have begun trucking adult fish to cooler waters.

The spring- and winter-run salmon are genetically different, with the seasonal labels marking when adult fish travel from the Pacific Ocean back to the Sacramento River to spawn.

The spring-run Chinook, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, are being moved from traps at the base of Keswick Dam to Clear Creek in the Sacramento River.

About 300 specimens of the winter-run salmon, listed as endangered since 1994, are being moved from a government-run hatchery to waters above the Eagle Canyon Dam on the North Fork of Battle Creek, east of Redding. The relocation, which began with a single fish, marks the first time in more than 110 years that the winter-run salmon have occupied those waters.

"It's just beautiful, cool, shady habitat for them," said Peter Tira, a spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. "While they can't physically access it because of the barriers, their offspring will be able to just kind of ride the waterfalls down and will be able to make their migration to the ocean."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-19/northern-california-chinook-salmon-trucked-to-cooler-waters
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 24, 2022, 08:15:55 AM
The US has spent more than $2B on a plan to save salmon. The fish are vanishing anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they'd always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.

>>>Today, there are hundreds of hatcheries in the Northwest run by federal, state and tribal governments, employing thousands and welcoming the community with visitor centers and gift shops. The fish they send to the Pacific Ocean have allowed restaurants and grocery seafood counters to offer "wild-caught" Chinook salmon even as the fish became endangered.

The hatcheries were supposed to stop the decline of salmon. They haven't. The numbers of each of the six salmon species native to the Columbia basin have dropped to a fraction of what they once were, and 13 distinct populations are now considered threatened or endangered. Nearly 250 million young salmon, most of them from hatcheries, head to the ocean each year — roughly three times as many as before any dams were built. But the return rate today is less than one-fifth of what it was decades ago. Out of the million salmon eggs fertilized at Carson, only a few thousand will survive their journey to the ocean and return upriver as adults, where they can provide food and income for fishermen or give birth to a new generation.

Federal officials have propped up aging hatcheries despite their known failures, pouring more than $2.2 billion over the past 20 years into keeping them going instead of investing in new hatcheries and habitat restorations that could sustain salmon for the long term. At the largest cluster of federally subsidized hatcheries on the Columbia, the government spends between $250 and $650 for every salmon that returns to the river. So few fish survive that the network of hatcheries responsible for 80% of all the salmon in the Columbia River is at risk of collapse, unable to keep producing fish at meaningful levels, an investigation by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica has found.

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https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/24/pacific-northwest-federal-salmon-hatcheries-declining-returns/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 24, 2022, 08:22:30 AM
Copper River closed again amid low counts

This year's Copper River sockeye run is starting out a lot like last year's, which is bad news for most everyone, except for maybe the fish that are showing up.

Alaska Department of Fish and Game managers closed the famed early season drift gillnet fishery for a second consecutive opener May 31 due to poor sockeye counts at the department's Miles Lake sonar upriver from the fishery.

Just 54,154 sockeye had been counted at Miles Lake through May 31, compared to the approximately 132,000 fish needed by that date to meet the department's in-river goal based on historical run data, according to a June 1 ADFG advisory.

https://www.alaskajournal.com/2021-06-01/copper-river-closed-again-amid-low-counts
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 25, 2022, 13:38:43 PM
EPA to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay, blocking major gold mine
The Biden administration's move to invoke its Clean Water Act authority marks a major blow for the project, which is near the world's largest sockeye salmon run



The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would restore protections for Alaska's Bristol Bay, blocking the construction of a massive and controversial gold mine near the world's largest sockeye salmon run.

The policy shift, indicated in a court filing Thursday in response to a lawsuit filed by the mine's opponents, deals a serious blow to a project that has been in the works for more than a decade and would have transformed southwest Alaska's landscape.

Pebble Limited Partnership, the U.S. subsidiary of Canada's Northern Dynasty Minerals, argued that its proposed mine had the potential to be one of the most important metal-producing projects of the 21st century.

But a coalition of Alaska Natives, environmentalists, fishing operators and recreational anglers — including some prominent Republicans such as Donald Trump Jr. — countered that it was too risky to start a hard-rock mine at the headwaters of a fishery teeming with sockeye, coho, chum and pink salmon that has provided generations with a vital food source and lured fishing enthusiasts from around the globe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/09/biden-bristol-bay-gold-mine/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 26, 2022, 09:25:01 AM
Alewives Return to Maine Lake for the First Time Since Revolutionary War

>>>For the first time in over 200 years, a native species of sea-run fish have naturally made their way from the Atlantic Ocean to Maine's China Lake. Also known as river herring, alewives have been blocked from their native spawning grounds for centuries by a series of outdated dams.

The last time alewives successfully completed their roughly 70-mile migration from the sea to their spawning grounds, the United States was still in the midst of the Revolutionary War.

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An osprey snatches up an alewife from Maine's Kennebec River.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alewives-return-to-maine-lake-for-the-first-time-since-revolutionary-war/ar-AAXIwGX?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9fb9ea2b334c4db38212c9c32d55e102




Alewives return to China Lake for the first time since 1783

>>>No species restoration effort could ever happen without at least one person who's persistent and passionate. In this case, there are several people who've been working to return alewives to China Lake for the past seven years. The small gray fish are a keystone species eaten by many other predators, which makes them important to the health of Maine's ecosystem.

"Yeah, they're popping through. That group that was down there is coming," says Nate Gray, a scientist with the Maine Department of Marine Resources, standing on the edge of a newly constructed fishway at the Outlet Dam, watching alewives in the water below. "It's a thing of beauty, it truly is."

The dam is the final barrier before China Lake. And the fishway serves as a sort of ladder for migratory fish, a structure with water on the side of the dam that helps them do what their driving instincts tell them: navigate around the obstruction and get to the lake to spawn.

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Listen to the NPR story here
https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-05-20/alewives-return-to-china-lake-for-the-first-time-since-1783

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The fishway can be seen in the foreground of this shot. In the background is the Olde Mill, a woolen mill built in approximately 1850. At one point, it was the largest mill in New England, employing over 500 people.


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 28, 2022, 08:28:28 AM
https://youtu.be/qMsqJ6WnP4Y


Salmon in the classroom....
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 03, 2022, 11:20:00 AM
More Atlantic salmon are returning to the Penobscot River this spring after a disappointing 2021

>>>Atlantic salmon, federally protected under the Endangered Species Act, are returning to the Penobscot River in larger numbers than usual this spring.

As of May 27, a total of 169 Atlantic salmon had been counted at Milford.

"We have only had two years [when] salmon numbers were higher in the month of May since 1978," said Jason Valliere, a marine resource scientist for the Maine Department of Marine Resources Division of Sea Run Fisheries and Habitat.


The most productive years during that time period came in 2010, when 250 salmon returned to the river, and in 2012, when 200 fish were counted.

More than 40 Atlantic salmon came through the fishway on May 22 alone.

https://bangordailynews.com/2022/06/02/outdoors/more-atlantic-salmon-returning-to-penobscot-joam40zk0w/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 08, 2022, 07:57:58 AM
Causeway removal meant big jump in juvenile salmon

https://youtu.be/NRjZIsifa_w

>>>INDIAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — The return of young salmon to the eelgrass beds of the tidelands below Indian Island's sandstone-stacked bluffs has been swift following the removal of an earthen causeway that opened fish passage.

Even Bill Kalina, the island's longtime environmental program manager for the Navy, was taken aback by the jump in the number of juvenile salmon since the causeway was replaced with the bridge at the south end of Kilisut Harbor, Kitsap Sun reported.

"We weren't expecting these results so quickly," Kalina said. "It happened almost overnight."

For the past 75 years, the causeway's two small culverts were the only way saltwater — and the life traveling in it — traversed Oak Bay north to Kilisut. But in 2020, a $12.6 million state project replaced the causeway with a concrete girder bridge.

Only six juvenile salmon were found during seining in the five years before the bridge opened. During this year's seining, over two days in May, volunteers netted close to 1,000 juvenile salmon.

"The increase was really dramatic," Kalina said.

https://www.knkx.org/environment/2022-06-06/causeway-removal-meant-big-jump-in-juvenile-salmon
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 11, 2022, 13:56:27 PM
How A $2 Billion U.S. Plan To Save Salmon In The Northwest Is Failing

Listen to Science Friday (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/salmon-rescue-plan-failing/)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 12, 2022, 12:22:07 PM
The Last-Ditch Effort to Save Wild Salmon
As climate change deals a blow to coastal habitats, coho salmon are disappearing from California's Russian River. Can conservation hatcheries save them?

>>>Elizabeth Ruiz parked the white pickup at the side of a winding road, climbed out of the cab, and looked around in disbelief at what was left of the narrow valley: How could any salmon have possibly survived? Once a redwood forest so lush that the land's contours were lost in it, every ridge and gulley was now exposed, eerily radiant under the Creamsicle-orange sky. Patches of ground still smoldered from the Walbridge Fire, which had blazed through the valley seven weeks earlier, in August 2020.

Ruiz, a biologist with the science agency California Sea Grant, adjusted their N95 mask for protection from the haze. Dark hair tucked under a hard hat, wading boots kicking up ash, Ruiz clambered carefully down the steep bank to Mill Creek. They were accompanied by a four-person field crew, all dedicated to saving a population of coho, one of the most endangered runs of salmon on the West Coast of North America. Even bird calls rarely disturbed the quiet. Nearly all the wildlife had fled.

"It felt like we were at the end of the world," Ruiz says, recalling that mild October day.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-last-ditch-effort-to-save-wild-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 17, 2022, 11:28:16 AM
Fish and Game announces sport fishing closures for king salmon on the Kenai Peninsula


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Alaska Department of Fish and Game closed king salmon sport fishing on the Kenai, Ninilchik and Kasilof Rivers through the end of July, as well as closing the Cook Inlet saltwater fishery for now.

"This year is off to a really slow start with most of our chinook salmon escapement monitoring here on the Kenai Peninsula depending on the stock or system," said Alaska Department of Fish and Game area biologist Mike Booz.

So far the early run king salmon count on the Kenai River is 1,030. The Department of Fish and Game considers an optimal early-season return to be in the 3,900 - 6,900 range.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fish-and-game-announces-sport-fishing-closures-for-king-salmon-on-the-kenai-peninsula/ar-AAYzeWx
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 20, 2022, 08:31:38 AM
Endangered coho salmon, considered on the brink of extinction, make a major comeback at Bay Area creek

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>>>An endangered species of salmon, once considered to be on the brink of extinction in the Bay Area, is showing a promising return.


Researchers at the Marin Municipal Water District said that significant rainfall totals late last year mitigated drought conditions and may have aided in bolstering the coho salmon population at Lagunitas Creek, a 24-mile stream in Marin County where the fish spawn every winter.

Eric Ettlinger, an ecologist for the agency, told the Marin Independent Journal that the creek saw one of the largest salmon runs in a decade and that fish surveyors discovered 330 coho egg nests — the second-highest count recorded in that span of time. Three hundred and seventy nests were counted during the winter months of late 2018 and early 2019.

"For the public, it was an amazing year because [salmon] were all over the watershed," Ettlinger told the outlet. "People were seeing them in popular spots like Devil's Gulch and Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area and spawning over an extended period of time. They said they had not seen so many salmon in years and that this year was the best viewing they had ever seen."


https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Endangered-coho-salmon-return-to-Bay-Area-17252203.php
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 20, 2022, 08:34:12 AM
Woman's 24-hour salmon fishing marathon to help restore spawning waters

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>>>Karen Woolley, 66, of South Stoke Road, Woodcote, will fish for 24 hours next Friday in the upper reaches of the River Dee in
Scotland.

She says climate change is warming the river and juvenile salmon are dying in the treeless landscape.

Mrs Woolley will be part of a team of 30 anglers supporting a project by the River Dee Trust to plant millions of native trees along the banks to provide shade and lower the water temperature in these salmon nursery streams.

She aims to raise at least £3,000 to fund more than 1,000 trees along a barren stretch of the river. Any fish caught will be returned to the river. Mrs Woolley said: "Time is running out for the salmon as well as for other species that live in our rivers.

"North Atlantic salmon may disappear from our rivers within the next 20 years. Their numbers have declined by two-thirds in the last 40 years as they have suffered catastrophic losses at sea.

https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/environment/172983/womans-24-hour-salmon-fishing-marathon-to-help-restore-spawning-waters.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 08, 2022, 09:58:12 AM
Sockeye salmon are returning to the Columbia River for the highest count in a decade

Sockeye salmon are returning to the Columbia River at numbers far higher than predicted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, bringing expanded fishing opportunities this summer.

According to the WDFW, the committee that forecasts and monitors salmon and steelhead returns to the Columbia River initially predicted around 198,000 sockeye salmon ahead of the season.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/sockeye-salmon-are-returning-to-the-columbia-river-for-the-highest-count-in-a-decade/

Bristol Bay Sockeye Run Set to Shatter Records

From the pristine waters of Bristol Bay, the harvest of sockeye salmon, a legendary culinary experience, is set to break records. Consumers and chefs can't wait for July when the opportunity to enjoy this memorable fish comes once again.

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game is predicting that over 75 million sockeye will return to Bristol Bay this summer, topping the largest salmon run on record. Bristol Bay is a world-renowned, thriving, and vast ecosystem that is home to thousands of fishermen, six major river systems, and millions of salmon. Alaska is known for its commitment to sustainably managed salmon runs; the fish are a vital link to the state's past and a key to its future.

"Salmon is more than a delicious and nutritious source of protein," said Lilani Dunn, Marketing Director of Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon. "It is also part of the fabric of life, an essential livelihood, and the foundation of health for Bristol Bay fishermen. This abundant and record-setting harvest is the result of careful attention to sustainable fishing practices. And we are honored to share it with the world."


https://www.perishablenews.com/seafood/bristol-bay-sockeye-run-set-to-shatter-records/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 27, 2022, 11:54:01 AM
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The federal government is conducting a review of four dams on a Maine river that could result in a lifeline for the last wild Atlantic salmon in the US.

The wild salmon have been listed under the Endangered Species Act since 2000.

One of the rivers is the Kennebec River, where Brookfield Renewable U.S. owns dams.

Brookfield wants to amend federal licenses for four dams and receive a new operating license for one of them.

https://www.wabi.tv/2022/07/26/us-could-require-steps-dams-save-last-atlantic-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 28, 2022, 08:32:49 AM
Bristol Bay run hits all-time record of 76 million sockeye

>>>The sockeye salmon run in Bristol Bay, Alaska, U.S.A. has surpassed 76 million fish, setting an all-time record.

As of 21 July, the latest day for which a count is available, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported a total run of 76,583,856 sockeye, with a cumulative catch of 58,298,771 sockeye between Bristol Bay's Ugashik, Egegik, Naknek-Kvichak, Nushagak, and Togiak fisheries. The count  surpassed AFDG's pre-season estimate predicted a run of 73.4 million sockeye salmon, the largest inshore run ever, with a potential harvest of over 61 million salmon.

The sockeye catch is up 36 percent year-over-year compared the same period of 2021, with 95 percent of the expected sockeye catch already brought in.

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/bristol-bay-run-hits-all-time-record-of-76-million-sockeye
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 05, 2022, 13:27:20 PM
https://salmonexplorer.ca/

The Pacific Salmon Explorer has become an important tool for supporting salmon conservation and recovery. For example, the Pacific Salmon Explorer is being used to support Recovery Potential Assessments (RPAs) for salmon assessed as threated or endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 06, 2022, 11:40:59 AM
Trucks dump rocks into American River to help with salmon spawning


Work has begun this week to provide and protect critical habitat for salmon in Northern California.

Trucks were seen dumping rocks in the American River by Sailor Bar, which is downstream from Nimbus Dam near Folsom. The process involves first dumping the rocks, which are deposited into the river.

Watch LiveCopter 3's aerials of the habitat work in the video

https://www.kcra.com/article/trucks-dump-rocks-american-river-salmon-spawning/40823030#
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 11, 2022, 07:27:33 AM
River Tweed fish stock concerns grow amid low water levels

The River Tweed Commission (RTC) has warned current water scarcity plans are inadequate to protect its fish stocks.

It is concerned at the "significant problems" being created by low water levels and high temperatures on Atlantic salmon, sea and brown trout.

The group wants a review of the system still allowing water extraction from the river by industry and agriculture.

The Scottish government said it worked closely with experts to decide what actions to take to tackle scarcity.

There have been a series of water scarcity warnings from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) so far this year with the east of the country more badly affected than the west.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-62464403
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 11, 2022, 07:28:49 AM
Miramichi Lake cottagers told rotenone spraying will happen Wednesday


Salmon conservation groups have been concerned that a growing population of smallmouth bass in Miramichi Lake, Lake Brook and a portion of the Southwest Miramichi River is threatening Atlantic salmon as well as brook trout native to the waters.

The spraying of the pesticide rotenone received official approval and was set to happen last August, but grandmothers and mothers from Wolastoqey First Nations were concerned about the environmental impact. They began paddling on the lake, which prevented the spraying

This year, the smallmouth bass eradication group said it were determined to carry out the spraying this summer.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/chemical-spraying-miramichi-lake-1.6546176
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 11, 2022, 09:47:40 AM
Judge bars pesticide spraying in Miramichi Lake until hearing

>>>A judge has barred a group from spraying a chemical in the Miramichi Lake area until a lawsuit filed by local cottage owners can be heard.

Spraying of rotenone, a pesticide and piscicide, was scheduled Wednesday to eradicate invasive smallmouth bass, according to court documents.

On Tuesday, Justice Terrence Morrison made an order preventing any spraying until the lawsuit objecting to it is heard on Aug. 17.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/miramichi-rotenone-spraying-court-1.6546868
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 14, 2022, 08:13:35 AM
Excitement in B.C. Indigenous communities as salmon get past Fraser River slide zone


Thousands of migrating sockeye and chinook salmon appear to be making it through a massive slide area on the Fraser River on their way to spawn in central British Columbia.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada says 280,000 salmon have already been counted above the slide site north of Lillooet, contrasting greatly from three years ago when barely 100 salmon were counted.

Gord Sterritt, a director of the group Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance, says there is excitement within Indigenous communities about the potential arrival and harvest of wild salmon.

In 2019, a rock slide of about 110,000 cubic metres fell into the river canyon, creating an almost impassable barrier for migrating salmon.

Rescue efforts to get the trapped salmon beyond the slide included shooting them through a so-called salmon cannon, capturing them and using a truck or helicopter to take them past the site and moving huge boulders into the river to create a pathway to help ease the fish beyond the slide zone.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/excitement-in-b-c-indigenous-communities-as-salmon-get-past-fraser-river-slide-zone-1.6025359


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 19, 2022, 08:42:15 AM
Wild North Umpqua summer steelhead returns showing improvement


>>>As of July 19, 1,094 wild summer steelhead crossed Winchester Dam in the North Umpqua River. Which is an improvement over 2021 when a total of just 450 wild fish returned. Although returns remain below average for this time of year, this is an encouraging sign.

Returns have been closely monitored this summer via a 24/7 count of all fish passing the video counting station at Winchester Dam. Current analysis projects this year's run to be above the critical threshold of 1,200 wild summer steelhead returning by Dec. 1.

Fishery managers expected higher returns this year based on improving ocean conditions.

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2022/08_Aug/081822.asp
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 21, 2022, 12:12:07 PM
US Protections For Idaho Salmon, Steelhead Are Here To Stay

>>>A five-year review by U.S. officials has determined that Endangered Species Act protections for ocean-going salmon and steelhead that reproduce in the Snake River and its Idaho tributaries must stay in effect.

https://mydroll.com/us-protections-for-idaho-salmon-steelhead-are-here-to-stay/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 21, 2022, 12:15:40 PM
Mainer spent 20 years working to restore Atlantic salmon population

A Mainer has been working to restore the Atlantic salmon population that is vital to our ecosystem.

After 20 years of work, Paul Christman has the numbers to prove the salmon are back. Christman has received the 2022 Trout Unlimited Conservation Professional Award.

"I did not do this alone. I have had a small but great crew working down here," Christmas said. "When we started 20 years ago, there wasn't any Atlantic salmon up there. Now there are tens of thousands."

Watch the interview here:

https://www.wmtw.com/article/mainer-restore-atlantic-salmon-population/40943984#
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 26, 2022, 09:27:56 AM
Concern for B.C. sockeye salmon as Fraser River return estimates drop by millions


>>>Optimism over an expected bumper season for wild British Columbia sockeye salmon has turned to distress, after a regulatory body's estimate of returns to the Fraser River dropped by nearly half this week.

The Pacific Salmon Commission's pre-season estimate of 9.8 million returning fish went down to 5.5 million Monday, prompting environmentalists and fishers alike to express concern.

"It's disturbingly bad,'' said Greg Taylor, senior fisheries adviser with Watershed Watch Salmon Society.

Hopes were high for the sockeye run this year in part because the fish return to spawn in the Fraser River on a four-year cycle, with 2022 being one of the expected peak years, he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sockeye-return-concerns-1.6561278
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 26, 2022, 09:29:36 AM
Older steelhead making up bulk of return
A big group of 2- and 3-salt fish returning to the area rivers; number of one-ocean fish is below projections

>>>There's a good news-bad news scenario shaping up in this year's return of steelhead to the Salmon and Snake rivers.

The bad: One-ocean steelhead aren't showing up as projected.

The good: Two-ocean fish are bailing us out.

We are talking about the A-run here — steelhead that return mostly to the Snake, Salmon and Grande Ronde rivers. Most of them spend just one year in the ocean before returning as adults, But a small fraction stay at sea for two to three years.

As far as timing, the older fish tend to lead the charge and are followed by the youngsters. That profile has shaped up this year. The front end was loaded with two-ocean and three-ocean fish, so much so that early returns spiked above the 10-year average. But with the meager showing from one-ocean fish, the run now trails the 10-year trend.

https://lmtribune.com/outdoors/older-steelhead-making-up-bulk-of-return/article_0a007266-859d-507f-bd7c-faaf03423f1c.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 29, 2022, 09:23:51 AM
Alaska's biggest salmon run is booming despite warming water, and scientists are trying to understand why.

Scientists are trying to better understand what conditions improved to produce a steroidlike boost in recent wild sockeye runs.

They are also grappling with another question in a century of intensifying climate change stoked by human activities that release greenhouse gases: Will it eventually get too warm, and undermine the extraordinary productivity of Bristol Bay sockeye?

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2022/08/28/the-salmon-mystery-of-bristol-bay/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 12, 2022, 10:50:18 AM

US declares disaster for salmon fisheries

For generations upon generations, the Yurok tribe has relied on Chinook salmon from the Klamath River in Northern California for ceremonies, subsistence and commercial gain.

But in 2019, less than 40% of the usual number of salmon returned to the river - resulting in what tribal Chairman Joseph L. James called an "utter failure" of that year's stock.

The Yurok tribe isn't alone. Between 2014 and 2019, tribal salmon fisheries failed in Washington state rivers, too.

On Sept. 1, the Commerce Department declared fishery disasters for several West Coast tribes and allocated $17.4 million in disaster assistance in response. The assistance will be used to shore up everything from habitat restoration to commercial and subsistence fishers.



https://www.postguam.com/the_globe/nation/us-declares-disaster-for-salmon-fisheries/article_29f60934-317d-11ed-aeb7-27f9f18f5fc9.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 12, 2022, 10:52:14 AM

Wild Atlantic Salmon Are On The Brink Of Extinction In The U.S. From Half Million To 450 In Recent Years


The National Marine Fisheries Service has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help restore this iconic species by insisting on conservation measures to the Kennebec River in Maine. Wild Atlantic salmon , The Kennebec was one of the most productive rivers in the country for salmon and other freshwater-marine fish. Four hydropower projects, owned by the energy conglomerate Brookfield Renewable Partners, prevent Atlantic salmon, American shad, river herring and other species from migrating to and from the ocean in a safe and timely manner and to rebuild sadly diminished populations. These dams account for only 0.4 percent of Maine's total power generation. The Kennebec River, along with the Penobscot, are the only two large rivers in the U.S. with extant populations of Atlantic salmon. Salmon in both are endangered, but the Kennebec's is particularly vulnerable because most of its high-quality spawning habitat is in the tributary Sandy River, upstream of the four Brookfield dams.The small number of returning adult salmon that enter the fishway at the first dam on the river, the Lockwood Dam, cannot get to the Sandy River their own — they must be captured and trucked there. Brookfield's proposed measures for upstream and downstream fish passage at each of its four dams will not pass Atlantic salmon and other sea-run species in sufficient numbers to restore viable, self-sustaining populations. Not only do these dams impede upriver migrations but their impoundments expose migratory fish to high temperatures, disorient them by reducing river flow speeds, and provide an environment in which predator species thrive. Restoration of these fish is not possible without dam removal.


https://technologytimes.pk/2022/09/11/wild-atlantic-salmon-are-on-the-brink-of-extinction-in-the-u-s-from-half-million-to-450-in-recent-years/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 16, 2022, 10:43:37 AM
https://youtu.be/F1Bw9cAYcRA

The video shows Atlantic salmon leaping up the Falls of Shin, near the village of Lairg, making their way upstream to spawning grounds further up the river.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 06, 2022, 11:29:57 AM
Fishing To Shut Down On Many Olympic National Park Rivers

With waters running at all-time lows and no real fall rains in sight, a host of salmon and steelhead rivers and streams inside Olympic National Park will close to recreational fishing starting tomorrow, October 6.

https://nwsportsmanmag.com/fishing-to-shut-down-on-many-olympic-national-park-rivers/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 06, 2022, 11:34:40 AM
Salmon struggle to spawn amid record-setting drought, with hundreds dead in B.C.

After three parched months, much of B.C. is experiencing drought and ongoing hot weather has left streams running dry, leaving no way for some salmon to return to their spawning grounds, killing hundreds in a mass die-off on the province's central coast.

The situation has scientists and salmon watchers concerned.

The Pacific Salmon Commission initially projected a return of 9.8 million fish to the Fraser River this year. By August, predictions were reduced to 5.5 million. This was readjusted again, on Sept. 28, to 6.8 million.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-dead-drought-bella-bella-1.6606418
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 12, 2022, 07:27:41 AM
'Few of these monstrous fish exist now' Will we ever again catch a salmon like this?


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On October 7, 1922, just over a century ago, Scottish nurse Georgina Ballantine was fishing on the Tay with her father, staying out there until almost dusk on the last day of summertime. They were harling, sweeping the river in a slow-moving boat and two weighted rod-lines, when her father, who was handling the boat, noticed a movement, and a screech of the reel brought her rod to an upright position. The salmon they had hooked, they realised, was a giant and would have them battling over two hours to haul him in under the light of the moon.

When the pair finally returned home Ballantine's mother said they were so late she had thought them "baith in the watter". Her enormous fish turned out to be a record-breaking 64lbs and beat any other rod-caught salmon in the UK – and would be displayed for visiting crowds as a "monster" fish in a fishing tackle shop in Perth.

But the sad truth is that Georgina Ballantine's record has, this full century later, still not been beaten – and many believe it never will be, since North Atlantic salmon in Scotland, and across much of the rest of its, are not only free-falling in numbers, but also getting smaller in size. These days a big fish is around half the size of her giant; a 30lber is almost headline news

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/few-monstrous-fish-exist-now-064352933.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 21, 2022, 16:29:36 PM
Why Ireland's wild salmon stock keeps dwindling

Angler Seamus O'Neill has been fishing in West Conamara for almost 30 years.

Wild Atlantic salmon, one fish species with legendary status on this island, has traditionally been plentiful in the Dawros River.

But the number of salmon returning back upstream to spawn has fallen dramatically in recent years.

"Almost 20 years ago, we had runs of up to 3,000 adult salmon coming back. Today, we're looking at less than 900," Mr O'Neill told Prime Time.

Watch the video report here:
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2022/1020/1330449-why-irelands-wild-salmon-stock-keeps-dwindling/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 21, 2022, 16:45:58 PM
OPINION w/VIDEO: Salmon die and people lose their water as B.C. sleepwalks into yet another crisis
'It's time those responsible for protecting B.C.s environment spent a little more time out here with us'

https://content.jwplatform.com/previews/z0RRn1Ss

On Tuesday, an emotional call came into our Chilliwack office, along with a video that was hard to watch. A small school of coho salmon struggled to push from one tiny pool of water to another in a futile effort to spawn. The cool, clean water they needed to survive and lay their eggs was nowhere to be found.


Scenes like this are playing out across B.C. as this record-setting drought kills salmon, trees and other flora and fauna en masse.

A recent municipal order on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast is forcing businesses to literally stop using water. Aside from reactions to fish kills from central coast First Nations representatives, it was the first major signal from government officials that something might be seriously wrong.

https://www.agassizharrisonobserver.com/opinion/opinion-w-video-salmon-die-and-people-lose-their-water-as-b-c-sleepwalks-into-yet-another-crisis/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 24, 2022, 08:31:33 AM
Retired Connecticut official won't stop fighting for the endangered Atlantic salmon

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>>>Steve Gephard knows what it feels like to swim upstream. For 46 years, he pursued a noble goal against long odds: restoring a viable population of Atlantic salmon in the Connecticut River.

Every year, he and his colleagues at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection would stock the river and its tributaries with hundreds of thousands of newly-hatched salmon, hoping that enough would return as adults to spawn and build a sustainable population. They built fish ladders—a series of pools built like steps—on the rivers, too, so the salmon could circumvent dams as they moved upstream.

It didn't work. Last year, cameras at the Connecticut River fish ladders spotted just four returning Atlantic salmon, down from hundreds in the 1980s and perhaps tens of thousands before European settlers began choking the river and its tributaries with dams and pollution in the late 1700s.

https://www.theday.com/news/20221023/retired-connecticut-official-wont-stop-fighting-for-the-endangered-atlantic-salmon/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 09, 2022, 08:08:43 AM
https://youtu.be/UuMALxqlQiQ
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 10, 2022, 10:16:03 AM
Salmon restoration project hits milestone

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>>>With the recent release of 300 mature Atlantic salmon into the upper reaches of the East Branch of the Penobscot River, the state of Maine has taken another step forward in its effort to restore the critically endangered species.

The release was a milestone in a three-year project designed to increase the number of Atlantic salmon that spawn in the favorable habitat of the East Branch.

"The East Branch of the Penobscot has lots of high-quality habitat for Atlantic salmon, but mortality in both the marine and freshwater environments prevents many from reaching it," said Department of Marine Resources (DMR) scientist and project lead Danielle Frechette.

"One of the best ways to help Atlantic salmon move towards recovery is to have more adults spawning in this high quality, but largely vacant habitat."


https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/salmon-restoration-project-hits-milestone/
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Post by: Onslow on November 13, 2022, 17:25:05 PM
QuoteTable 2 Estimated mean (SD) number of subyearling fall Chinook salmon lost to smallmouth bass predation in the Snake River study reaches during 2013–2018. Also shown is the mean loss per river kilometer. The Snake River transition zone reach is abbreviated as SRTZ and the confluence reach is abbreviated as CON. See Fig. 1 for river kilometer boundaries of each reach

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-020-01016-0#Sec6

According to to the USGS, Salmon do not recognize smallmouth as predators, and do not emit the danger odor when in near proximity. It appears smallmouth bass illegally introduced is a clear existential threat to salmon in the Pacific NW.

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Post by: Onslow on November 13, 2022, 20:38:42 PM
Impacts of introduced smallmouth bass on Atlantic Salmon are significant as well.  I won't cut and past doctoral dissertations and masters theses, but there is google.

Miramichi shit show. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/miramichi-smallmouth-bass-eradication-salmon-project-1.6587893
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 21, 2022, 09:10:22 AM
IDFG Partnering With Private Landowners To Improve Wild Steelhead Habitat In The Potlatch River

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) and partners are working to improve habitat conditions for wild steelhead in the Potlatch River in northern Idaho through stream restoration projects.

Restoring steelhead and their habitat in the Potlatch River requires a network of habitat restoration experts, funders, and management groups. However, the most vital partners are private landowners. Most of the Potlatch watershed is privately owned and without willing landowners, this program would not succeed. IDFG personnel works directly with private landowners to access their properties to restore steelhead habitat and conduct sampling work. Fortunately, there are landowners who want to see steelhead flourish once again in the Potlatch River and are joining the effort to make a difference.

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https://dailyfly.com/idfg-partnering-with-private-landowners-to-improve-wild-steelhead-habitat-in-the-potlatch-river/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 17, 2022, 09:00:51 AM
Collins, King Announce More Than $22 Million in Funding to Ease Fish Migration Patterns

U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King today announced that two Maine organizations will receive a total of $22,381,297 in funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve fish migration in Maine rivers. The Atlantic Salmon Federation and the Maine Department of Marine Resources will use this funding to remove two dams that are no longer in use and install fish ladders at two additional dams in the Penobscot and St. Croix Rivers, allowing the endangered Atlantic salmon, along with other fish species and wildlife, to move along migrations routes with ease.

 

"Allowing unimpeded fish migration along Maine's rivers will help to preserve species that have long held cultural and economic significance to our state. Rivers like the St. Croix and the Penobscot – which is home to the largest Atlantic salmon run in the United States — have proven to be invaluable to the health of Maine's environment and our tribal communities," said Senators Collins and King. "This funding, along with the hard work of both the Atlantic Salmon Federation and the Maine Department of Marine Resources, will help strengthen Maine's long conservation legacy and preserve sea-run habitats. We remain committed to protecting these species and look forward to our continued work with Maine organizations that dedicate themselves to protecting the culture and economy of our state."

>>>The removal of the dams will reconnect more than 9,700 suitable habitat units towards the delisting criteria of 30,000 units for the Penobscot Basin Salmon Habitat Recovery Unit. Additionally, the projects will provide access to 600 miles for all migratory fish species and 60,000 acres of habitat for alewife. This is a top priority for the State of Maine and the Passamaquoddy people to significantly improve fish populations in the region.

https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/collins-king-announce-more-than-22-million-in-funding-to-ease-fish-migration-patterns


https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-12-15/maine-gets-federal-money-to-improve-migratory-fish-passage-habitat
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 27, 2022, 09:56:39 AM
Olympic Peninsula Receives $18.7 Million to Remove Fish Barriers, Restore Salmon Habitat

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has given groups on the North Olympic Peninsula $18.7 million to remove barriers and replace culverts to improve fish passage and infrastructure in the region.

NOAA is funding 10 projects across the state and 36 projects across the nation, totaling $38.9 million in grants for fish barrier removal.

The primary Peninsula beneficiaries of the funding — which was championed by U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Mountlake Terrace, and U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor — will be the Quillayute, Quinault and Hoh tribes, although proponents said there also will be impacts on the public as well as reservation infrastructure.

"These first projects from the NOAA's Restoring Fish Passage Through Barrier Removal Program will jump start salmon recovery on the Olympic Peninsula by removing salmon-blocking culverts and other stream obstructions," Cantwell said in a press release.

"Barriers like obsolete dams and impassable culverts prevent salmon from migrating to their spawning grounds in the Quillayute, Quinault and Lower Chehalis watersheds," she added.

https://www.forksforum.com/news/olympic-peninsula-receives-18-7-million-to-remove-fish-barriers-restore-salmon-habitat
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 01, 2023, 11:41:50 AM


Apple decided to purchase about 36,000 acres of forest in Maine and North Carolina, part of the company's environmental protection and sustainability programs. The vice president of environmental initiatives at Apple, Lisa Jackson, confirmed the news. 

Jackson claimed that the famous company made this purchase, as Apple actually plans to source the paper used for its product packaging and daily operations from "sustainably managed forests" and "controlled wood sources."

The area that Apple purchased actually is twice the size of Manhattan, the Conservation Fund alleged. The area is part of a million acres of conserved lands that provide habitat for the Atlantic salmon, the bald eagle and the Canada lynx.

https://www.maddapple.com/2022/12/apple-wants-to-create-sustainable-eco-friendly-products/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 04, 2023, 11:35:08 AM
NATURE CONSERVANCY: Conserving coastal areas, freshwater wetlands and diverse forests in Atlantic Canada has global impact

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The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has conserved three new unique areas totalling 83 hectares (203 acres) along Nova Scotia's Northumberland Strait. The land purchases of salt marsh wetland and forested sites are located on the Pugwash River,  along with the Missiquash Marshes on the Nova Scotia side of the Chignecto Isthmus.  - Mike Dembeck / Contributed


Species at risk
Consider our vulnerable coastal areas, freshwater wetlands and diverse forests, which provide critical habitat for species at risk throughout Atlantic Canada. By conserving land and water, we can ensure that wildlife habitats are protected, our environment is healthy and people can connect with nature for their well-being.

Why biodiversity matters
Our well-being is intimately tied to the health of the natural world around us. And we're at a point now where nature's health is ailing.

Over the last half-century, bird, wildlife and pollinator populations have declined due to habitat loss and other factors. When these species disappear and lose their range, our natural world is weakened and with it our natural defences against climate change are weakened as well.


https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/opinion/nature-conservancy-conserving-coastal-areas-freshwater-wetlands-and-diverse-forests-in-atlantic-canada-has-global-impact-100810672/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 12, 2023, 09:17:16 AM

Trouble at Sea
When it comes to salmon, has the Pacific reached its limits?

It's late July and I'm standing with Daniel Schindler at the mouth of Sam Creek, a small tributary of western Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to the largest wild sockeye salmon fishery in the world. The mouth of the creek—barely 20 feet wide—boils with fish. Schindler, a renowned salmon biologist, estimates that there are some 500 sockeye at our feet, their bodies gone cherry red and heads a copper-ore green because it's spawning time.

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>>>Yet here in this little corner of Bristol Bay, the scene is joyous, absurd. We are knee-deep in the largest Bristol Bay sockeye return on record. Initial estimates put the run at over 80 million fish, nearly double the most recent 20-year average. But as Schindler and I maneuver up the fish-filled creek, there is one troubling addendum to this historic season: The fish are some of the smallest on record for their age.

https://www.biographic.com/trouble-at-sea/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 17, 2023, 12:36:04 PM
Chinook
The mystery of the straying Chinook, climate change and salmon survival
By Rita Beamish


National Park Service fisheries biologist Michael Reichmuth was stunned just over a year ago to see Chinook salmon showing up in Redwood Creek, a tiny stream that meanders amid the towering coast redwood trees — some of the giants nearly 1,000 years old — in Muir Woods National Monument.

It wasn't that this stream in Marin County north of San Francisco had no history of any salmon. It is home to two keystone species: endangered coho and steelhead, a threatened species. But Chinook, also called king salmon, are considerably larger — growing up to the three-foot range — and they tend to prefer comparatively larger waterways, notably making their home-base in rivers flowing from the Sierra down through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to San Francisco Bay and the Pacific beyond.

And since salmon return to their natal waters to spawn — meaning where they were hatched and reared — their appearance beneath the redwood canopy counted as a mystery. They'd never been seen in Redwood Creek, said Reichmuth, who overseas coho monitoring at Redwood Creek nearby streams. 

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/01/muir-woods-mystery-straying-chinook-climate-change-and-salmon-survival
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 19, 2023, 12:40:39 PM
Jellyfish, diseases, parasites: Scotland's farmed salmon mortalities hit 15 million in 2022
Losses have increased 158% in two years.

https://www.intrafish.com/salmon/jellyfish-diseases-parasites-scotlands-farmed-salmon-mortalities-hit-15-million-in-2022/2-1-1389334
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2023, 09:15:21 AM

Senator Collins Visits Whiting to Celebrate $2.9 Million for Mill Pond Dam

Whiting, ME—U.S. Senator Susan Collins participated in an event at the Whiting Town Office yesterday to celebrate a $2.9 million grant to restore a fish passage for the Mill Pond Dam.  Senator Collins, the Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, secured the funding in the government appropriations bill that was signed into law last month.  The project will preserve the pond and will take a key step to help restore critical habitat for the endangered Atlantic salmon throughout the Orange River Watershed.

The Mill Pond Dam is located at the site of a former mill that was initially constructed in the early 1800s and equipped with a wooden fish ladder system.  A fire destroyed the mill and fish ladder in the 1950s, and the dam subsequently fell into a state of disrepair. 

                                                                                                                               

"For generations, Mill Pond has served as a focal point for the Town of Whiting.  In addition to its scenic beauty, Mill Pond is a crucial water source for firefighters, which proved instrumental in saving the town from the destructive Bell Mountain forest fire in 1985," said Senator Collins.  "The funding for this project will protect the pond while restoring critical habitat for native fish populations, benefitting current and future generations of anglers."

https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senator-collins-visits-whiting-to-celebrate-29-million-for-mill-pond-dam
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2023, 09:16:41 AM
https://youtu.be/hoijdbcNG1U
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 31, 2023, 09:32:54 AM
City of Redding Announces Project to Protect Spawning Fish Species in the Sacramento River

The City of Redding is partnering on a project to construct a new Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Trout spawning habitat underneath the Market Street Bridge. The effort, led by the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors and Reclamation District 108, will add more than 8,000 tons of gravel to the Sacramento River – the equivalent of 10 football fields. The project, expected to be complete in mid-February, will provide critical support to endangered fish populations.

The $500,000 Market Street Spawning Habitat Project is funded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Local, State, and Federal organizations have united for the project under a singular mission – to provide necessary protection for spawning salmon and trout. The project follows a comprehensive effort to recover all four runs of Chinook salmon in the Sacramento Valley Watershed and demonstrates the value of working collaboratively to address some of the most pressing issues affecting local and regional wildlife.

https://www.activenorcal.com/city-of-redding-announces-project-to-protect-spawning-fish-species-in-the-sacramento-river/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 31, 2023, 14:45:47 PM
EPA blocks Alaska Pebble Mine in salmon-rich Bristol Bay region


The Environmental Protection Agency has blocked development of the Pebble Mine project in a corner of the Bristol Bay watershed, a vast and pristine swath of southwest Alaska that sustains the greatest sockeye salmon runs on the planet.

The EPA decision made public Tuesday placed a key portion of land surrounding the Pebble deposit off-limits for use as a disposal site.

The decision follows years of legal jousting and regulatory twists and turns for the mine in what emerged as an epic Alaska resource battle. It could still continue as developers are likely to challenge the EPA decision in federal court.

The project proposed by The Pebble Limited Partnership ignited passionate opposition from a coalition of Alaska and Northwest fishers, environmentalists and many Bristol Bay region natives who fear the salmon resource would be undermined by an open pit mine forecast to yield 1.3 billion tons of ore over two decades of operations.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/epa-blocks-alaska-pebble-mine-in-salmon-rich-bristol-bay-region/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 07, 2023, 12:30:22 PM
Atlantic salmon and trout habitat protected along the Sheepscot River
A 12.5-acre parcel of land along the Sheepscot River, which is a priority area for Atlantic salmon and wild brook trout, has been secured for conservation in perpetuity.

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Midcoast Conservancy announced the acquisition of a 12.5-acre parcel with 1300 feet of frontage along the West Branch Sheepscot River near China, Maine. Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) supported the project as part of its Rivers Initiative. The parcel includes forested land and priority habitat areas for Wild Brook trout. This area also produces one of the highest numbers of juvenile Atlantic salmon in the Sheepscot Watershed.

The West Branch is one of the most well-connected habitats in the Sheepscot River. Wild brook trout priority areas and endangered Atlantic salmon spawning, and rearing habitats are mapped along the entire 1300 feet of the parcel's Sheepscot River frontage. Additionally, this property is the site of the Pullen Mill Fish Passage project — a fishway that was installed in 2012. The fishway is a natural constructed pool and weir fishway that provides passage for alewives around the remnants of the mill's dam. The fishway is dedicated in memory of Dr. Melissa Laser, a biologist with the Maine Department of Marine Resources who worked tirelessly to protect, improve, and restore aquatic ecosystems in Maine and along the entire Atlantic coast.

https://www.wiscassetnewspaper.com/article/atlantic-salmon-and-trout-habitat-protected-along-sheepscot-river/170278
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 18, 2023, 10:08:41 AM
Fisheries Department to shut 15 salmon farms off B.C.'s coast to protect wild fish
Canada will not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms around the Discovery Islands

Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has announced the federal government will not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms around British Columbia's Discovery Islands.

Murray says in a news release the Discovery Islands area is a key migration route for wild salmon where narrow passages bring migrating juvenile salmon into close contact with the farms.

She says recent science indicates uncertainty over the risks posed by the farms to wild salmon, and the government is committed to developing a responsible plan to transition away from open-net farming in coastal B.C. waters.

https://www.hopestandard.com/news/fisheries-department-to-shut-15-salmon-farms-off-b-c-s-coast-to-protect-wild-fish/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 03, 2023, 10:34:57 AM

Can the Northern California Summer Steelhead Be Saved in Time?
A report lists the status of the fish as "critical"

>>>Researchers have come to dire conclusions about California's native fish: Almost half the salmonids are likely to be extinct in the next 50 years, including over half of anadromous species—fish that migrate up freshwater rivers from the ocean to spawn. This is according to the State of the Salmonids II report, which reviewed the status of California's 32 salmon, trout, and steelhead fish species.

One fish in particular, though, is declining more rapidly: The Northern California summer steelhead trout. In barely a decade, the time since the first SOS report was released, the species had escalated from a high to critical level of concern and its population numbers had plummeted to less than 1,000 adults. While the fish are genetically poised to adapt to warming environments, they could cease to exist by 2050 without intervention and habitat restoration on the Eel River.

In 2018, Friends of the Eel River, a nonprofit in Eureka, filed an official petition to list the summer-run steelhead trout under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). According to the CA Department of Fish and Wildlife, the CESA process takes a minimum of two years, but there is no legal timeframe by which the entire process must be completed. Recent listings have taken around four years. While the Northern California Summer Steelhead trout were permanently listed in June 2021, conservation experts worry that with added pressures from climate change, endangered species like the Northern California summer steelhead don't have years to wait for regulation. Now, advocates have taken a crisis management approach to the CESA, putting resources into species that show the most promise in surviving the future.


https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/can-northern-california-summer-steelhead-be-saved-time

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 05, 2023, 11:48:22 AM
State shutters most Cook Inlet king salmon fishing this summer in unprecedented array of emergency closures


The state is shutting down most summer king salmon sportfishing around Cook Inlet amid continued declines in the strong, hard-running fish that not that long ago filled freezers and fueled tourism in the state's most populated region.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Thursday announced an unprecedented array of restrictions and closures on sport and personal-use fishing from the Kenai Peninsula to Mat-Su, a sweeping series of emergency regulations that illustrates the severity of king salmon population crashes and the broader salmon crisis playing out across the state.

The regulations mark the region's most restrictive preseason orders yet after 15 years of decreasing populations, according to Mike Booz, the state's Homer-based Cook Inlet sportfish area manager.

https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/fishing/2023/03/03/state-shutters-most-cook-inlet-king-salmon-fishing-this-summer-in-unprecented-array-of-emergency-closures/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 05, 2023, 11:51:15 AM
California fishing organizations seek total closure of salmon seasons to protect future stocks
The trio of groups, representing commercial and recreational fleets, say low numbers of adult king salmon must be preserved for the future

Leaders of three California recreational and commercial fishing organizations called Friday for a complete closure of the salmon season this year, saying recent reports of low chinook salmon stocks leave no choice but to conserve what's left.

With the Pacific Fisheries Management Council set to begin meeting Sunday in Seattle to establish the parameters of this year's salmon fishing seasons, the groups said there was no point in considering anything but a total shutdown

"There are many people whose livelihoods are at risk," said Glen Spain, acting executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, which represents commercial fleets at ports along the California coast, including Bodega Bay. "It's not an easy decision, but there is on other way that makes sense."

The other two groups calling for a complete closure are the Golden Gate Fisherman's Association and the Northern California Guides and Sportsmen's Association, which represents businesses in the recreational fishery.

Longtime Bodega Bay charter captain Rick Powers, whose boat New Sea Angler is a fixture on the Sonoma Coast, is president of the Golden Gate Fisherman's Association. He said closure of the fishery would prove a shock to recreational anglers who experienced the joy of hooking king salmon during the past two, strong seasons.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/california-fishing-organizations-seek-total-closure-of-salmon-seasons-to-pr/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 07, 2023, 09:28:49 AM
CAN WE SEE A RETURN OF THE ENDANGERED SOUTHERN STEELHEAD TROUT?

It is difficult to perceive, the fish long associated with the big rivers of Northern California to the Pacific Northwest and all the way to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula originated in the mountains of Baja California and migrated north to the Southern California Coast.
 
I learned all of this after fishing in Malibu Creek as a youth for warm water pumpkinseed and catfish in deep pools after winter rains. I had a huge hit on my line and the fish kept running and spooled me, taking all of my line until it broke but not before I saw the silver streak. As a teenager, after the big floods of 1969, I caught steelhead in the pool below the tall and notched Matilija Dam and released them.
 
Many years later I was part of the Southern California Steelhead Coalition and the effort to protect and restore the fish and their natural habitat through the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with state and federal agencies, which prevents the fishing or "take" of any of the fish. We have, through oral histories and gathering old photos, collected a view into the past before our amnesia of our natural history in Southern California.

https://angeles.sierraclub.org/news_conservation_great_coastal_places/blog/2023/03/can_we_see_a_return_of_the_endangered_southern
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 14, 2023, 09:37:45 AM
A group of international fisheries scientists is now pointing out the simple, ecological reality of mathematics long ignored by Alaska salmon managers: addition matters as well as subtraction.

With the human-manipulated ecosystem of the North Pacific Ocean once again oscillating wildly, they are warning that fishery management isn't just about the removals of salmon via human harvests; it is also about the additions of billions of the little fish now dumped into the ocean each year by industrial-scale salmon hatcheries in Alaska, Japan and Russia.

"The intentional release can have wider-ranging consequences than previously thought, as the impacts can propagate through a diversity of ecological interactions," they warn in a peer-reviewed paper published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) last month.

"This recognition has sparked a discussion of how the massive introduction of native species alters short-term ecosystem dynamics. Yet, current debates overlook the fact that we have rarely assessed the community-wide impact in the long term."

Evidence to support the theory that dumping billions of hatchery salmon into the Pacific can play havoc with wild ecosystems has been hotly debated for years now, but the researchers reporting in PNAS say they've been able to gather the evidence to document long-term, community-wide consequences by studying masu salmon in Japan.

https://craigmedred.news/2023/03/12/fish-math/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 22, 2023, 09:40:10 AM
Government rules last wild Atlantic salmon in country can coexist with Maine's hydroelectric dams
Wild Atlantic salmon were previously in abundance in the US, but now only return to a few ME rivers

The federal government ruled Monday that the last wild Atlantic salmon in the country can coexist with hydroelectric dams on a Maine river, dealing a blow to environmentalists who have long sought to remove the dams.

The salmon, once abundant in the U.S., now return to only a few Maine rivers. One is the Kennebec River, dammed by Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday that the dams are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of the salmon if conservation measures are taken.

Conservation measures along Brookfield's four Kennebec dams are designed to improve fish passages and will require an investment of more than $100 million by Brookfield, NOAA said. The dam upgrades would allow the salmon to swim up the Kennebec from the Atlantic Ocean to freshwater inland habitats for the first time since the construction of the dams in the 19th century, the agency said.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/government-rules-last-wild-atlantic-salmon-country-coexist-maines-hydroelectric-dams
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 30, 2023, 13:45:20 PM
ATTENBOROUGH'S 'WILD ISLES' SHINES LIGHT ON SALMON

WILDLIFE legend Sir David Attenborough's Wild Isles television series will shine a light on the plight of Scotland's wild Atlantic salmon on Sunday.

Attenborough will use his BBC One show to highlight that "there has been a 70% loss in 25 years, and [wild Atlantic] salmon could be extinct in the next two decades".


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f21hnt

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 30, 2023, 13:53:34 PM
https://youtu.be/Yg3YXEUYNYw
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 04, 2023, 09:40:52 AM
California Salmon Stocks Are Crashing. A Fishing Ban Looks Certain.
Scientists say alarming declines at the southern end of the fishes' range may be a sign of what's to come as waters warm farther north.

This week, officials are expected to shut down all commercial and recreational salmon fishing off California for 2023. Much will be canceled off neighboring Oregon, too.

The reason: An alarming decline of fish stocks linked to the one-two punch of heavily engineered waterways and the supercharged heat and drought that come with climate change. There are new threats in the ocean, too, that are less understood but may be tied to global warming, according to researchers.

Scientists and fishers had been braced for bad numbers. Conditions were terrible a couple of years earlier, when the salmon were young and tiny in low, overheated creeks and rivers in California. But as the fish counts came in and the models spit out figures, the numbers were even more dismal than expected.

Of all the salmon in California, fall-run Chinook were the last ones robust enough for commercial fishing. But this year, fewer than 170,000 are expected to return to Central Valley rivers. That's down from highs of over a million as recently as 1995.

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 07, 2023, 11:51:00 AM
1st ocean fish farm proposed for East Coast off New England

A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to the waters off New England by raising salmon and trout in open-ocean pens miles from land, but critics fear the plan could harm the environment.

The vast majority of U.S. aquaculture, the practice of raising and harvesting fish in controlled settings, takes place in coastal waters or on land, in tanks and ponds. But New Hampshire-based Blue Water Fisheries wants to place 40 submersible fish pens in water about 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) off Newburyport, Massachusetts, on two sites that total nearly a square mile, according to federal documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

The farm would grow millions of pounds of Atlantic salmon and steelhead trout, two popular seafood species, documents state. The proposal needs a battery of approvals, and would be the first of its kind off the East Coast.

https://wapo.st/3miR10Y
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 08, 2023, 08:30:28 AM
West Coast king salmon are so depleted officials just canceled the Oregon and California season

Chinook salmon stocks along the West Coast are so low fishery managers have officially canceled both the commercial and most of the recreational fishing season from northern Oregon to the California-Mexico border.

Salmon once filled West Coast rivers and streams so full local Native American tribes said their ancestors could walk across salmon-filled streams without sinking into the water. 

Damming, overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change mean what's left of those once magnificent runs are only remnants.

Today, fewer than 167,767 adult fall chinook salmon are expected to try to return to the Sacramento River – the lowest since 2008. In the northern part of the state, just over 103,000 salmon are expected to return to the Klamath River. That's the second-lowest forecast since assessment methods began in 1997.

On Thursday, the Pacific Fishery Management Council, the semi-federal body that oversees West Coast fisheries, recommended closing the state's chinook salmon season, the first time in about 15 years such a decision has been made.

Much of the Oregon season will be closed as well though some recreational salmon fishing will be allowed off the southern Oregon coast in the fall.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/04/06/california-chinook-salmon-season-canceled-until-spring-2024/11618489002/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 18, 2023, 08:58:11 AM
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 21, 2023, 22:03:57 PM
https://youtu.be/UfP-DC5PK-w
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Post by: Onslow on April 22, 2023, 07:12:19 AM
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Don't think any should be consumed unless one is a local, and growing food is a challenge, e.g., Alaska life.
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Post by: trout-r-us on April 22, 2023, 11:54:34 AM
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This cast concerns Atlantic Salmon and I've never had the chance to buy or try wild Atlantics.

For Pacific species, I prefer Wild Sockeye. I attempt to find fish sourced from a sustainable fishery.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 16, 2023, 12:07:58 PM
Southern California Steelhead Remain Endangered
Conservation Efforts Not Enough to Overcome Drought and Wildfire Effects on Fish


Despite being heralded as one of the most adaptive and hardiest of fish, plus conservation efforts dating back to the 1990s, the health of Southern California steelhead has gone from bad to worse. Human activity in conjunction with climate-related threats such as drought and wildfire have left the species with staggeringly low adult numbers, especially among populations that migrate between salt and fresh water — which are at high risk of disappearing altogether.

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Claude Krieder with Santa Ynez River steelhead, c. 1948 | Credit: Courtesy NOAA

The Southern California steelhead will stay on the federal Endangered Species list subsequent to a review of its status in the recently released 2023 five-year plan from National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries. Although most West Coast steelhead species are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the Southern California steelhead is the only one to reach endangered status.

https://www.independent.com/2023/05/15/southern-california-steelhead-remain-endangered/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 16, 2023, 12:28:23 PM
Washington slates $50M for trees to shade salmon streams
Gov. Jay Inslee and a bipartisan group of legislators are using a low-tech approach to combat deadly warming waters.

Washington state is putting more money into a low-tech approach to help salmon thrive. State officials are hoping to plant millions of dollars' worth of trees along rivers and streams to cool the water and protect the fish.

River and stream water can kill salmon when it hits the mid-70s, according to a joint Washington State University and University of Portland report.

Gov. Jay Inslee and Democratic and Republican lawmakers wanted to tackle warming streams this past legislative session as a way to combat some of the effects of global warming. Inslee's office and the Ecology and Fish and Wildlife departments met with farming groups, business interests, environmental organizations and several tribes to come up with a system to address the problem.

https://crosscut.com/environment/2023/05/washington-slates-50m-trees-shade-salmon-streams
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 18, 2023, 08:58:23 AM
State Announces Plan To Return Chinook Salmon To Its Native Habitat

State Will Reintroduce Salmon On Yuba River
 Along the Yuba River on Tuesday, California officials announced a plan to give fish access to areas they haven't swam in for more than a century. Daguerre  Point Dam has blocked migrating salmon, sturgeon and Pacific lamprey since it was built in 1910.

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MARYSVILLE, CA - MAY 16: A view of the Lower Yuba River and the Daguerre Point Dam on May 16, 2023 in Marysville, California. The Daguerre Point Dam, built in 1906 and owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is a debris dam to hold back mining debris from the Gold Rush. Governor Newsom joined State, Local and Federal Officials to announce an agreement to reopen the Yuba River to chinook salmon and sturgeon and launch river restoration by building fishways for the fish to swim around the dam.  (Photo by John G. Mabanglo-Pool/Getty Images)
https://www.kqed.org/news/11949792/state-announces-plan-to-return-chinook-salmon-to-its-native-habitat

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 18, 2023, 09:05:06 AM
CalTrout and Partners Sue PG&E over Harms to Eel River Salmon and Steelhead

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MARYSVILLE, CA - MAY 16: A view of the Lower Yuba River and the Daguerre Point Dam on May 16, 2023 in Marysville, California. The Daguerre Point Dam, built in 1906 and owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is a debris dam to hold back mining debris from the Gold Rush. Governor Newsom joined State, Local and Federal Officials to announce an agreement to reopen the Yuba River to chinook salmon and sturgeon and launch river restoration by building fishways for the fish to swim around the dam.  (Photo by John G. Mabanglo-Pool/Getty Images)

https://caltrout.org/news/caltrout-and-partners-sue-pge-over-harms-to-eel-river-salmon-and-steelhead
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 09, 2023, 11:31:23 AM
Biden administration unveils USD 2.6 billion in coastal resilience and tribal fisheries funding

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden announced a framework for distributing USD 2.6 billion (EUR 2.4 billion) in funding for coastal resilience and fisheries support made available through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The money will go toward fisheries conservation, Tribal priorities, and a new competitive grant program to develop regional approaches to climate resilience.

"Under President Biden's leadership, we are making the most significant direct investment in climate resilience in the nation's history," U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said. "As part of our more than USD 2.6 billion investment in regional coastal resiliency and conservation projects, we will be dedicating USD 390 million [EUR 364 million] directly to Tribal priorities for habitat restoration and bolstering fish populations, and supplying crucial funding to ensure our coastal communities are better prepared for the effects of climate change."

Key spending under the framework includes:

[] USD 390 million (EUR 364 million) for tribal priorities, such as habitat restoration, fish passages, hatcheries, and Pacific salmon;

[] USD 349 million (EUR 326 million) for projects to conserve fisheries and protected species in coastal regions;

[] USD 575 million (EUR 537 million) for the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, a new competitive grant program;

[] USD 100 million (EUR 93 million) for Ocean-Based Climate Resilience Accelerators, a new competitive program to support businesses with coastal and ocean-based resilience projects; and

[] USD 60 million (EUR 56 million) to support climate-ready workforce initiatives

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/biden-administration-unveils-usd-2-6-billion-in-coastal-resilience-and-tribal-fisheries-funding
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 09, 2023, 11:49:50 AM
Atlantic Salmon release hopes to bolster population of endangered species

Read more on Atlantic Salmon release hopes to bolster population of endangered species at https://www.wabi.tv/video/2023/06/08/atlantic-salmon-release-hopes-bolster-population-endangered-species/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 25, 2023, 08:35:46 AM

Wild salmon return to inner Bay of Fundy following Indigenous-led efforts


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The Inner Bay of Fundy wild salmon population, which collapsed in the 1990s, is experiencing an apparent rebound following efforts led by Amlamgog, also called Fort Folly First Nation.

To mark the return of the endangered wild salmon this season, a ceremony took place at Alma Beach this week on National Indigenous Peoples Day to bless the waters for their safe passage.

Tim Robinson, director of Fort Folly Habitat Recovery, credited the leadership of the small Mi'kmaw community of Amlamgog with ensuring the survival of wild salmon in the inner Bay of Fundy.

"Chief Rebecca [Knockwood] speaks of salmon as being traditionally, culturally one of those iconic species that's so important to the First Nations peoples across Canada and the non-Indigenous people as well," Robinson said in an interview with CHMA.

"People want salmon back in their rivers," he said. "And, you know, we're determined to do our part and make that happen, and it's just not acceptable to be inactive."

https://nbmediacoop.org/2023/06/24/wild-salmon-return-to-inner-bay-of-fundy-following-indigenous-led-efforts/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 29, 2023, 08:10:25 AM
Maine Tribes and Leading Environmental Organizations Join Forces To Oppose Proposed Mine in Shadow of Katahdin
Proposed zinc mine at Pickett Mountain being pursued by virtually unknown Canadian company

Two Tribes in Maine today joined forces with leading environmental groups and a national public interest environmental law organization to oppose a proposed mine that would be located in the shadow of Baxter State Park and the Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument.
The proposed zinc mine at Pickett Mountain is being pursued by a virtually unknown Canadian company, Wolfden Resources, that has never operated a mine before. A previous version of Wolfden's request was widely opposed because the region holds enormous cultural and natural significance to Wabanaki Tribes, outdoor recreation businesses, and Maine people.

The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Penobscot Nation, and the Natural Resources Council of Maine, represented by Earthjustice and Brann & Isaacson, joined the Conservation Law Foundation in petitioning to intervene in the review of Wolfden's permit application to the Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) to rezone the area for industrial uses.

"The Penobscot Nation strongly opposes the rezoning of this ecologically important area. We share significant concerns over impacts to the water quality and fisheries of the area, which our members rely upon," said Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Nation. "The West Branch of the Mattawamkeag River contains abundant, high-quality, cold-water fish habitat and Designated Critical Habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon, identified as necessary for the recovery of Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot River. This mine would impact our traditional territories and forever alter our ability to maintain our relationship to this place."

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A cloud hugs the summit of Mount Chase in this aerial view of Pickett Mountain Pond in Maine's Northern Forest near the proposed site of the Wolfden mine. (J. Monkman / NRCM)



https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/maine-tribes-and-leading-environmental-organizations-join-forces-to-oppose-proposed-mine-in-shadow-of-katahdin
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 29, 2023, 08:21:22 AM
My Congressional Testimony: There is no silver bullet solution for salmon on the Snake River

Frustration at the slow pace of salmon recovery should not be the basis for spending $35 billion to destroy the four Lower Snake River dams. That was my basic message in my testimony yesterday on the status of salmon on the Snake River.

Members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing about the four Lower Snake River dams and invited me to discuss the state of salmon on the river and across the Pacific Northwest.

In my testimony, I made three key points.

First, although the slow rate of recovery of salmon populations on the Snake River is frustrating, it is not unique. I quoted a recent Seattle Times article noting that despite efforts to recover salmon on the Snohomish – which has no dams – fishing has been closed this year. Across the Pacific Northwest, salmon are struggling and fixating on one river is counterproductive.

Second, rather than sticking with science-based efforts which are effective, albeit slow, the frustration at the state of salmon is causing some to grasp at silver bullet strategies like destroying dams. This would be a mistake because the complex web of threats to salmon means there are no silver bullet strategies and spending $35 billion – or more – in one place would be a remarkable misallocation of resources.

Finally, some are engaging in hyperbole to generate political pressure to destroy the dams even if the scientific data are not on their side. I pointed out that claims Snake River salmon would soon be extinct have been contradicted by real-world data.

You can watch my testimony below.

https://www.youtube.com/live/OTVBVzwBgvg?feature=share
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 01, 2023, 10:41:07 AM
"We have declared a war on Pink salmon" Norway fights the invasive species in the Arctic.

https://youtu.be/6oCH2zvY4m0
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 13, 2023, 07:50:05 AM
https://youtu.be/tjh0gzcyPGQ
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 19, 2023, 13:33:20 PM
nytkingsalmon.jpg

In the waters of Puget Sound outside Seattle, 73 beloved and endangered orcas, known as the Southern Residents, are on the hunt, clicking. Using sound like a searchlight, they patrol the chilly depths. When they locate a target, they dive, sinking sharp white teeth into their preferred food, the fatty coral-colored flesh of king salmon.

But in recent weeks, this ancient rhythm of the Pacific Northwest was being negotiated not just at sea but also in a federal courtroom in downtown Seattle, where on May 2 a district court judge issued an order effectively shutting down Alaska's biggest king salmon fishery, one of the largest remaining in the world.

To the Wild Fish Conservancy, the Washington State-based environmental group that filed the lawsuit, the fates of the two totemic animals are intimately bound. The orcas need the salmon to eat, and if we stop fishing them, the conservancy argues, we save the whales.

Full Article (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/dining/alaska-king-salmon-orcas.html?unlocked_article_code=2XsDO_1TYVRVuNy-MVvMDgnsYFuwBfjfA_WhqnUGp5YGHse-N8tSf3ASnoBJ3CDmjEUrZMfzz2fn3XrY2uO1ffpY0AX-J4aTHM9R4e-71K9_4HU4y_A9zIQccQUNT9SgBJhLYEo1U-zMXhXvx81oHCcEzMZ99VAmHx8tnOOqjVf50HOPqHQwis22kzwuA0Vm2Ezgic23GB_i0EEBdJJ6eSl1ULFZOtLXmWW0RYzZGb-GUi7Oe1QC0Dwld8_-YG1mDTK1EGxocYlc1ewv-0PAvEehZEVktOvOzKYFdS4xCwV3r6LQz5pKJchSqcfhnS4jOQAxF9vXyi0zCvT_nfHFav7V&smid=url-share)
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 31, 2023, 08:48:52 AM
Billions in conservation spending fail to improve wild fish stocks in Columbia Basin

Four decades of conservation spending totaling more than $9 billion in inflation-adjusted tax dollars has failed to improve stocks of wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin.

Four decades of conservation spending totaling more than $9 billion in inflation-adjusted tax dollars has failed to improve stocks of wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin, according to Oregon State University research.

The study led by William Jaeger of the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences is based on an analysis of 50 years of data suggesting that while hatchery-reared salmon numbers have increased, there is no evidence of a net increase in wild, naturally spawning salmon and steelhead.

Findings were published today in PLOS One.

Jaeger, a professor of applied economics, notes that steelhead and Chinook, coho and sockeye salmon numbers have been under heavy pressure in the Columbia River Basin for more than a century and a half -- initially from overharvesting, then from hydropower beginning in 1938 with the opening of Bonneville Dam, the lowermost dam on the mainstem Columbia.

"Also, farming, logging, mining and irrigation caused landscape changes and habitat degradation, which compounded the problems for the fish," said Jaeger, who collaborated on the paper with Mark Scheuerell, a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington.

An estimated 16 million salmon and steelhead once returned from the Pacific to the portions of the basin above Bonneville Dam, but by the 1970s there were fewer than 1 million fish, prompting the federal government to intervene.

The Northwest Power Act of 1980 required fish and wildlife goals to be considered in addition to power generation and other objectives. The act created the Northwest Power and Conservation Council to set up conservation programs financed by Bonneville Power Administration revenues.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230728170619.htm
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 01, 2023, 08:11:38 AM
Penobscot River Atlantic salmon returns on pace to be highest in 10 years

The rain and wet conditions during the spring and early summer may not have been good for outdoor recreation, but it likely helped with the return of Atlantic salmon, which are federally protected under the Endangered Species Act, to the waters of the Penobscot River.

An estimated 1,489 salmon have passed through either the fish lift in Milford or the Orono dam so far in 2023 as of July 22, said Jason Valliere, marine resource scientist for the Maine Department of Marine Resources. That continues a positive trend for Atlantic salmon returns. It marks the most fish counted since 2012.

As was the case last year, it is likely that higher river flows resulting from extensive spring and early summer rains played a role in cooling the water and enabling Atlantic salmon to ascend the rivers and get into fishways more efficiently in 2023.

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/08/01/outdoors/penobscot-river-atlantic-salmon-returns-highest-in-10-years-joam40zk0w/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 02, 2023, 08:34:46 AM
What's Killing the Salmon in Our Urban Streams? A Mystery is Now Solved.
A chemical called 6PPD that's found in tires is devastating aquatic life.

For years, a mysterious phenomenon called "urban runoff mortality syndrome" has been decimating salmon returning to freshwater streams to spawn in the Pacific Northwest. The syndrome can kill up to 100% of salmon in an affected area before they are able to spawn and lay their eggs.

Now, researchers have finally solved the mystery. The culprit is our tires. Or, more correctly, a chemical called 6PPD used in tires since the 1950s to prevent degradation.

To put an end to this existential threat to wild salmon populations, the Yurok, Port Gamble S'Klallam, and Puyallup Tribes are petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish regulations prohibiting the manufacturing, processing, use, and distribution of 6PPD for tires.

Here's what you need to know about 6PPD and its impact on the environment.

What is 6PPD and why is it dangerous to use in tires?
For decades, 6PPD has been used in tires as an antioxidant and antiozonant to prevent tire degradation. During normal use, tires made with 6PPD release a breakdown product known as 6PPD-q, which washes into waterways during storms.

6PPD-q is the second most toxic chemical to aquatic species ever evaluated. Exposure to 6PPD-q can kill a coho salmon within hours, and the chemical is responsible for "urban runoff mortality syndrome," which kills up to 100% of coho salmon returning to spawn in affected urban streams. And 6PPD-q can have toxic effects on salmon beyond urban areas where streams are located near roads. It is likely that 6PPD-q is harming aquatic species worldwide.

Only one other chemical is more toxic to aquatic life — the chemical warfare agent parathion — and it's been widely banned due to its toxicity and is no longer on the market in the United States.

https://youtu.be/vxmojuC_dJE

https://earthjustice.org/article/whats-killing-the-salmon-in-our-urban-streams-a-mystery-is-now-solved
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 10, 2023, 09:11:51 AM
Tribes, non-profit seek immediate ban on tires containing 6ppd

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The non-profit Earthjustice has filed a petition with the U.S. EPA demanding an immediate ban on the manufacture and sale of tires containing 6ppd. The antidegradant is crucial to consumer safety, but it can morph into 6ppd-quinone during tire abrasion, an offshoot that is toxic coho salmon (pictured) and other fish critical to the livelihood of Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest.

https://www.rubbernews.com/news/three-tribes-petition-epa-ban-tires-6ppd

Greener Solutions 2021: Alternatives for 6PPD in tire manufacturing

Saving coho salmon: Alternatives for 6PPD in tire manufacturing

In early 2021, 6PPD-quinone, which is a transformation product of 6PPD, was discovered as the likely cause of pre-spawn mortality in Coho salmon in the Pacific Northwest. 6PPD is a critical tire rubber additive with high-performing antidegradant properties. The team proposed four strategies: the use of food preservatives, such as gallates; replacement with the polymer lignin; modification of 6PPD to prevent formation of its toxic quinone form; and finally, broader process-level changes, including adjustments to vulcanization processes schemes and rubber formulation.

https://bcgc.berkeley.edu/greener-solutions-2021-alternatives-6ppd-tire-manufacturing
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 12, 2023, 09:26:27 AM
Hungry seals blamed for loss of salmon at Down East fish farms

A seal attack is being blamed for the loss of 50,000 juvenile Atlantic salmon at two fish farming sites near Cutler.

Cooke Aquaculture spokesperson Joel Richardson said that divers discovered on Aug. 7 that seals had chewed through two cage nets near Cross Island. Each normally holds about 25,000 juvenile salmon, but were empty when workers found them.

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/08/11/news/down-east/seals-eat-salmon-down-east-fish-farms/


yet another reason that farmed salmon in the ocean is not a good thing!
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 15, 2023, 08:52:30 AM
https://youtu.be/73uvdLAXhUc
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 16, 2023, 09:44:21 AM
10 years later, migratory fish populations see resurgence after removal of Veazie Dam
While the Atlantic salmon population has grown in recent years, it's still far below what it once was in the Penobscot River.

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 17, 2023, 08:13:59 AM
Federal grants will replace water tunnels beneath roads that are harmful to fish

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through.

Many of the narrow passages known as culverts, often made from metal pipes or concrete, were built in the 1950s and contribute to population declines of salmon and other fish that live in the ocean but return to freshwater streams to spawn.

https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2023/08/16/federal-grants-will-replace-tunnels-beneath-roads-that-let-water-pass-but-not-fish/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 18, 2023, 08:27:34 AM
Skeena River steelhead numbers reach alarming low
Predicted steelhead numbers hit near-record low, sparking concern among anglers and conservationists

Steelhead figures in Skeena River have reached an alarmingly low count, as reported by the region's foremost fish tracking organization, the Tyee Test Fishery.

The monitoring of steelhead, which began in 1954, reveals that this year is likely to be the fourth-worst in history for the renowned trout species.

The forecast for this season's steelhead numbers is roughly 10,200, with over half of the stock, 55 per cent to be precise, already accounted for, says B.C. Forestry Associate Fish Director Mike Ramsay.


There have been no specific regulations or alterations for anglers announced at this time, but the ministry has left open the possibility of closures if circumstances require.


https://www.interior-news.com/news/skeena-river-steelhead-numbers-reach-alarming-low/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 18, 2023, 08:31:44 AM
Clearwater steelhead return off to surprising start
Fisheries managers predicted 'doom and gloom' but very early numbers show B-run may be OK; fall chinook run similar to recent returns

Something unusual appears to be happening with Idaho-bound steelhead and, if it holds, it's a good thing.

In their preseason forecast, fisheries managers expected the Snake River summer run would be dismal. The earlier returning A-run would be poor, according to the prediction, but the B-run would approach the worst ever recorded and could prompt fishing restrictions.

Those forecasts are compiled over the winter, long before the fish enter the mouth of the Columbia River and start pushing inland. In July, when A-run fish started arriving at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia, they showed some life and continue to do so. Granted, the numbers are low, well below goals and far short of more robust returns a decade ago. But they are better than some of the poor returns posted between 2017 and 2021.

Now the B-run fish are showing up. Those bound for the Clearwater River also are defying poor expectations — by a lot.

https://www.lmtribune.com/outdoors/clearwater-steelhead-return-off-to-surprising-start/article_0349d412-af00-5277-90cc-6214d23ab3fe.html
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Post by: jwgnc on August 18, 2023, 13:27:32 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 17, 2023, 08:13:59 AMFederal grants will replace water tunnels beneath roads that are harmful to fish
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through.
Many of the narrow passages known as culverts, often made from metal pipes or concrete, were built in the 1950s and contribute to population declines of salmon and other fish that live in the ocean but return to freshwater streams to spawn.
https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2023/08/16/federal-grants-will-replace-tunnels-beneath-roads-that-let-water-pass-but-not-fish/
There was a similar Federal Grant about 30 years ago: The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991.  It said, in part, that DOT projects had to be "environmentally sound".  Grants like this get allocated to states and then to counties who try to get a piece of the pie.

Long story, but I wrote a grant request, and we got about $300k in today's dollars to fix three culverts that were spilling silt and road salt run-off into our favorite trout stream.  A 10% increase in the county DOT budget.  The money will be out there – you just have to ask for it.

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 28, 2023, 08:15:56 AM
New program in Terra Nova aims to preserve thriving salmon populations


The Atlantic Salmon Federation has launched a new conservation program aimed not at areas where fish are at risk, but rather at areas where salmon are thriving, with the goal to keep it that way for years to come.

The federation, which operates within the Atlantic provinces, has chosen four salmon watersheds: the Margaree and Cheticamp Rivers in Nova Scotia, the Nepisiguit River in New Brunswick, and the Terra Nova River in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Kristen Noel, the communication representative for the federation, said that they searched for rivers with self-sustaining salmon populations, free of environmental threats such as invasive fish species and man-made structures like dams. Most importantly, they looked for rivers with an active community involved in fishing and conservation efforts.

"We're looking at watersheds that have active salmon fisheries so that we can have stewards out on the water," Noel said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/salmon-federation-terra-nova-1.6948681
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 29, 2023, 09:25:28 AM
N.S. to protect 684 hectares of wilderness, lake eyed by mining company

A new wilderness area in Nova Scotia's Guysborough County will protect 300 hectares of old-growth forest as well as a lake that has been identified by a mining company as a water source for a proposed gold mine.

The Archibald Lake Wilderness Area will encompass 684 hectares of forest, wetland and three lakes that feed into a tributary of the St. Marys River, one of Nova Scotia's longest rivers.

The area also provides habitat for the endangered mainland moose and Canada warbler.

Greg Morrow, the province's agriculture minister and the MLA who represents the area, called it a "pristine natural gem" that "takes your breath away when you come to it."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/guysborough-county-archibald-lake-wilderness-area-1.6949475
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 31, 2023, 08:25:20 AM
The $18M Project to Protect Endangered Trout


Local conservation group set to erect a new, 20-foot-high steel bridge over the Santa Margarita River to clear a path for steelhead


The low, concrete Sandia Creek Bridge over the Santa Margarita River isn't exactly guilty of murder. But it has the same effect on endangered Southern California steelhead living downstream as a mobster garroting a disloyal colleague with piano wire.

That's why people such as Mary Larson have spent the last 22 years buried in newspapers and microfiche archives, compiling evidence, like cold case detectives, to prove steelhead once flourished in places like the Santa Margarita. Confirm that, and the government will put money on the table to restore the river.

With the help of Larson and others like her, CalTrout—a conservation nonprofit dedicated to protecting California's watersheds—secured $18 million to erect a new, 20-foot-high steel bridge that clears a path for steelhead. Goodbye, low fish-blocking bridge. Hello, free-flowing Santa Margarita.

https://www.sandiegomagazine.com/features/river-trout-conservation-in-ca/article_5878505a-4694-11ee-9460-87037bcda9f6.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 01, 2023, 08:33:50 AM
A little history lesson.

In 1948, researchers try to collect old songs of the Cariboo
Plus the annual Steelhead Derby gets set to start in Spences Bridge

https://www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/community/in-1948-researchers-try-to-collect-old-songs-of-the-cariboo/

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Steelhead fishermen on the Thompson River — possibly at Goldpan — in 1967.

Look at that catch...!!!
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 06, 2023, 08:48:33 AM
Salmon are returning to Europe's Rhine River, but they still have one key barrier

The Rhine used to be home to a huge population of Atlantic salmon, which made their way all the way up to Switzerland to lay their eggs. Since the 1950s, construction of hydropower facilities has stopped the salmon migration, and now the species is all but eliminated from the Rhine. A decades-long plan to restore the salmon and their migration route along the Rhine is almost complete. But as Emily Haavik reports from Basil, Switzerland, there's one key juncture at a dam in France, where the salmon's passage has not been figured out yet.


Listen to the story here: https://theworld.org/media/2023-09-05/salmon-are-returning-europe-s-rhine-river-they-still-have-one-key-barrier
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 07, 2023, 09:22:12 AM
More wild Atlantic salmon found in U.S. rivers than any time in the past decade, officials say



The last wild Atlantic salmon that return to U.S. rivers have had their most productive year in more than a decade, raising hopes they may be weathering myriad ecological threats.

Officials counted more than 1,500 of the salmon in the Penobscot River, which is home to the country's largest run of Atlantic salmon, Maine state data show. That is the most since 2011 when researchers counted about 2,900 of them.

The salmon were once abundant in American rivers, but factors such as overfishing, loss of habitat and pollution reduced their populations to only a handful of rivers in Maine. The fish are protected by the Endangered Species Act, and sometimes only a few hundred of them return from the ocean to the rivers in a year.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/more-wild-atlantic-salmon-found-in-u-s-rivers-than-any-time-in-the-past-decade-officials-say/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 12, 2023, 08:53:54 AM
Fish farm escapes must stop, say Atlantic conservationists

Salmon conservationists are in a fish flap with the aquaculture industry, accusing the sector of allowing farmed salmon to escape and endanger the last remaining wild stock in the Bay of Fundy between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

But the fish farmers association has shot back, saying the group hasn't proven the salmon are from the industry's sea pens, despite recent seal attacks that ripped holes in an aquaculture firm's nets.

Wild Atlantic salmon are an iconic species, long heralded by anglers and considered sacred to Indigenous communities.

The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) announced last week it had removed 46 escaped aquaculture salmon from the Magaguadavic River fishway in southwest New Brunswick since Aug. 1, including 10 large fish captured Tuesday, Sept. 5.

The industry has acknowledged hungry seals recently attacked the netting in the sea pens nearby, in which the farmed fish are fattened up. But it also argues the federation is leaping to conclusions.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fish-farm-escapes-must-stop-164855149.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 12, 2023, 08:56:52 AM
https://youtu.be/BDuJMysCvT4
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 12, 2023, 09:07:44 AM
https://youtu.be/dPD_Ybjn1oA
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 21, 2023, 07:51:19 AM
Battle against extinction: Yakima's drive to restore steelhead and salmon population with $2 million funding boost

Yakima offers a variety of fishing opportunities, but some fish are on the verge of extinction and bringing those numbers back seems to be an upstream battle.

Over the last few years, conservation officials say we've been down to pretty low runs for steelhead trout.

"We figure once we would've had in the 10-50,000 steelhead throughout the Yakima Basin - they got down to where there were less than 500 coming back," said Alex Conley, the executive director of the Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board.

Part of that is due to what's going on in the ocean and Columbia River, but the other issues are right here in our basin.

https://kimatv.com/news/local/battle-against-extinction-yakimas-drive-to-restore-steelhead-and-salmon-population-with-2-million-funding-boost
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 23, 2023, 10:21:48 AM
Trout Unlimited Applauds Saranac River Salmon Restoration Efforts
The Lake Champlain Chapter of Trout Unlimited is applauding the removal of the two dams on the Lower Saranac River, saying that once a new fish ladder is installed downstream at the Imperial Mills Dam in Plattsburgh, Atlantic Salmon will be able to swim their way upstream to their native spawning grounds for the first time in centuries. Bill Wellman & Don Lee with Trout Unlimited join us to talk about how this could potentially help boost the native Atlantic Salmon population in the Saranac River and Lake Champlain.

https://youtu.be/rpdL-ergGjY


https://mountainlake.org/trout-unlimited-applauds-saranac-river-salmon-restoration-efforts/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 29, 2023, 20:34:55 PM
Atlantic salmon benefit from stream reconnection in Pleasant River Headwaters Forest

   
Access to 13.9 miles of stream habitat has been restored in the Pleasant River Headwaters Forest for endangered Atlantic salmon and Eastern brook trout following the completion of 14 road-stream-crossing projects this summer.

Thirteen of these projects took place on small streams on land owned by the Appalachian Mountain Club in the heart of the 100-Mile Wilderness and the final project was located at Henderson Brook in the corridor of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. The 100-Mile Wilderness is part of the largest contiguous expanse of undeveloped forest in the eastern United States. This is an area with a high resilience to climate change and an expansive number of lakes and streams with excellent habitat for cold-water fish.


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https://observer-me.com/2023/09/28/news/atlantic-salmon-benefit-from-stream-reconnection-in-pleasant-river-headwaters-forest/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 30, 2023, 08:20:30 AM
Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly

Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations

Clad in black waders, Guðmundur Hauker Jakobsson jumps into the River Blanda, whose freezing waters run down from the Hofsjökull glacier. Armed with a net, he casts around the ascending pools of the river's fish "ladder", built to aid wild salmon migrating up this powerful waterway from the sea.

Within minutes, he pulls out a 15lb silver fish, which thrashes and writhes against the net, then another, then another – five in all. The wild salmon of the Blanda here in north-west Iceland are some of the largest and most athletic in a country where the rivers are considered among the world's best. King Charles has fished for salmon here, as have David Beckham and Guy Ritchie; Eric Clapton is a regular.

But these, says Jakobsson – known as Gummi, who is the vice-chair of the Blanda and Svartá fishing club – are not wild fish.

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"Look," he shouts above the howling wind whipping our faces, pointing at one salmon. "It's an intruder."

Sure enough, it has a rounded tail and torn fins: signs of a farmed salmon. He suspects it's a fugitive from an open-net pen where just last month, on 20 August, thousands of fish grown in pens from a Norwegian strain escaped. They have since been found upstream in rivers, endangering the wild salmon population and hitting the headlines in Iceland.

Suspected escapees have now been found in at least 32 rivers across north-west Iceland, according to unconfirmed social media posts, one of which showed fish covered in sea lice, a parasite that can be lethal to wild fish. Iceland's Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MRI) confirmed the farmed fish have been found in multiple rivers.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/30/thousands-of-salmon-escaped-an-icelandic-fish-farm-the-impact-could-be-deadly
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 03, 2023, 09:08:32 AM
'It smells so bad': glut of wild salmon creates stink in Norway and Finland

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The irony of having too many salmon as global populations fall is not lost on locals, who have seen the pristine Tana River littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific species that is pushing out the local Atlantic species

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/02/it-smells-so-bad-glut-of-wild-salmon-creates-stink-in-norway-and-finland
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 03, 2023, 09:10:25 AM
Steelhead Catch a Break as Supreme Court Stands Down
Central Coast Enviros Force Dam to Release Water for Fish Survival

Environmental defenders of the federally endangered steelhead trout are hailing as a major victory the Supreme Court's decision this week not to hear an appeal filed by Twitchell Reservoir operators who argued they are not legally authorized to release water for steelhead recovery. Operators of Twitchell Dam — located on the Cuyama River and which serves residents of the Santa Maria Valley — had argued that the congressional language authorizing the construction of the dam 70 years ago did not specify that the water could be used to comply with the Endangered Species Act. It only could be used, they argued, for human consumption.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals saw it otherwise and ruled in favor of the steelhead, as represented by Los Padres ForestWatch, the Environmental Defense Center, and the San Luis Coastkeeper. Maggie Hall, an attorney with the Environmental Defense Center, said the issues surrounding Twitchell Reservoir were highly specific and that there were no broader legal controversies for the higher court to settle. Before the construction of the dam, Hall said the Santa Maria River sported the second largest steelhead run in the county, about 10,000 fish a year. The construction of the dam effectively blocked steelhead passage to spawning grounds. Hall said the release of about 4 percent of Twitchell's annual storage capacity would be required to restore downstream habitats to make a meaningful difference for steelhead recovery.

https://www.independent.com/2023/10/02/steelhead-catch-a-break-as-supreme-court-stands-down/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 04, 2023, 09:10:29 AM
River Dee revived after one of Scotland's biggest ever dam removals
One of Scotland's biggest ever dam removals has been completed in Aberdeenshire, opening up part of the River Dee to Atlantic salmon for the first time in more than 100 years.

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The project, delivered by the River Dee Trust and the Dee District Salmon Fishery Board, was made possible after receiving funding from Water Environment Fund (WEF). The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) administer WEF funding on behalf of the Scottish Government enabling rivers to be restored across Scotland.

The removal of the Garlogie Dam on Dunecht Estate means salmon can now access about 20 kilometres of precious spawning habitat. Opening up the five-metre high dam also restores 500 metres of burn and riverbank habitats, which were submerged below a reservoir for almost a century, as well as habitat restoration of the 3.5 hectares site further upstream of the dam.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/river-dee-revived-after-one-of-scotlands-biggest-ever-dam-removals-4358204
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 15, 2023, 10:13:42 AM
5 reasons to go deep into Maine Woods, a park twice the size of Acadia
The public parkland project on the Appalachian Trail offers hiking, fishing, and cross-country skiing

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Earlier this month, the Appalachian Mountain Club added another large parcel of land to its Maine Woods Initiative, a public parkland project that has grown to nearly 130,000 contiguous acres with the recent acquisition of the 29,000-acre Barnard Forest.

The newly expanded outdoor space in the northern section of the Appalachian Trail is more than twice the size of Acadia National Park. Once the conservation group spruces up the forest, it too will be open to outdoor enthusiasts.

Much of the AMC's land in central Maine had been owned by logging companies, paper manufacturers and other industries that did not want the public frolicking on their property. The initiative, which was established 20 years ago, takes the opposite tack. All hikers, bikers, Nordic skiers, snowshoers, anglers, birders and moose-seekers are welcome.


>>>To bring back threatened species, the AMC has reopened 110 miles of stream habitat and is restoring the west branch of the Pleasant River, a critical ecosystem for the endangered Atlantic salmon.

"We've got Atlantic salmon returning here for the first time in 180 years," Tatko said.


https://wapo.st/45xcKmr
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 17, 2023, 07:44:33 AM
With salmon at risk of extinction, California begins urgent rescue effort

Typically, now is the time when creeks along the Sacramento River are filled with young spring-run Chinook salmon preparing to make their journey downstream to the Pacific Ocean, where they will mature, and eventually make their return to California spawning sites.

This year, however, the salmon population has plummeted alarmingly — what officials call a "cohort collapse" — and biologists are taking urgent measures to save them from extinction.

For the first time, biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have begun capturing the juvenile spring-run salmon so that they can breed them in captivity, and hopefully prevent them from disappearing from the wild.

"We have a rare opportunity to make a bold decision in advance to try to preserve wild, independent populations," said Jason Roberts, an environmental program manager for the department. "It was super urgent to take this action now."

In the last several days, biologists have been using nets to capture small salmon in Deer Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River. From there, they have transported them by truck, in an aerated tank on a trailer, to the UC Davis fish laboratory.

https://www.starbeacon.com/region/with-salmon-at-risk-of-extinction-california-begins-urgent-rescue-effort/article_dcac18bc-a193-57ac-9a09-5fc48f40bfb0.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 17, 2023, 07:47:22 AM
Ambitious plans to restore spring salmon on the River Dee

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The 20-year scheme is aimed at saving threatened species including the river's iconic spring-run Atlantic salmon.

It will also reduce the impacts of floods and droughts, benefitting all wildlife and communities, and it will involve the use of cutting-edge science.

The project is called "Save the Spring" and is supported by the leading organisations, the Atlantic Salmon Trust, the River Dee Trust, and the Dee District Salmon Fishery Board.

It will deliver short-term benefits for the river as well as long-term measures to tackle the impacts of the growing climate and biodiversity loss crises.

The plans are announced amid concerns that Atlantic salmon may be heading towards endangered status in Britain, and closer to home the River Dee has had its poorest salmon season on record this year.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ambitious-plans-restore-spring-salmon-061725926.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 21, 2023, 10:53:44 AM
Billions of dollars not helping Columbia River salmon

Decades of data show that despite billions in taxpayer investment, salmon and steelhead hatchery programs and restoration projects in the Columbia River Basin have failed to support or boost native fish populations and in fact are contributing to their decline.

Oregon State University economics professor William Jaeger and Mark Scheuerell, a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington, looked at 50 years of native and hatchery salmon and steelhead return data from the Bonneville Dam near Cascade Locks. The Bonneville Dam is the last of 14 dams on the Columbia River before it empties into the Pacific Ocean, and it is where many salmon and steelhead — those born in hatcheries and in the wild — return to deposit their eggs after one to seven years in the ocean. The two also reviewed decades of spending on habitat restoration and hatcheries programs in the river basin, meant to save the species from extinction.

https://www.postregister.com/messenger/news/billions-of-dollars-not-helping-columbia-river-salmon/article_6817695c-353b-11ee-b4bf-7324c35575a6.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 21, 2023, 10:59:42 AM
The Salmon on Your Plate Has a Troubling Cost. These Farms Offer Hope.
Land-based aquaculture is still coming into its own, but it stands to upend an industry plagued by environmental concerns.

A revolution in the way Americans eat salmon is quietly being fomented inside a former factory building on the industrial edges of Auburn, a small city in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

At LocalCoho, one of the country's few sustainable salmon farms, 50,000 silvery coho salmon glide through concrete tanks filled with freshwater that recirculates through biofilters every half-hour. To mimic a marine environment, the lights are kept a dim, deep aqua blue that makes the salmon seem to glow.

In this eerie twilight, Andre Bravo, the chief operating officer, has carefully tended these fish since they first arrived, as a mound of glistening orange roe large enough to top a thousand blini if they hadn't been destined for piscine adulthood. It takes them 18 months to reach full size — about 6½ pounds — at which point they can be sold to high-end restaurants and retailers like FreshDirect, where fillets sell for about $17 a pound.

Salmon is the second-most-popular seafood in the United States, where the average American consumes more than three pounds a year. (Shrimp is No. 1, with average annual consumption reaching nearly six pounds in 2021.)

About 10 to 20 percent of this is wild Pacific salmon, most of which comes from well-managed fisheries in Alaska. But the rest is imported farmed fish raised in open net-pens in the ocean, a much-criticized system made even more problematic by rising water temperatures and other climate challenges.

Now, several land-based farms across the country are beginning to offer a more climate-stable alternative to traditional salmon aquaculture — one that's cleaner, more ecologically responsible and potentially has a lower carbon footprint.

So far, their fish is available only in local markets, most of them in Florida, New York and Wisconsin. But experts say that land-based farming is the future of salmon aquaculture in America — and the world, as similar businesses gain footing in countries like Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Poland and Japan.

Full NYTimes Article (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/dining/farm-raised-salmon-sustainability.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4Uw.fc0h.npIK184Fn-0N&smid=url-share)

Maine Aquaculture Association Responds to Inaccurate New York Times Reporting on Net Pen Salmon Farming

Recent reporting in the New York Times on salmon aquaculture paints an incorrect picture of net pen salmon farming. Net pen farming is the most environmentally sustainable animal production on the planet, and our members take great pride in ensuring the welfare of the fish we raise and minimizing the environmental impacts of our operations.

Read more: https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/accesswire/maine-aquaculture-association-responds-to-inaccurate-new-york-times-reporting-on-net-pen-salmon-farming#ixzz8Gn6NRzjV
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 24, 2023, 08:21:53 AM
Fish farm escape puts Bay of Fundy wild salmon in jeopardy
When wild and farmed fish mate, their hybrid offspring have less chance of survival. But advocates say the governments of Canada and New Brunswick still aren't taking action

As autumn sets in in Atlantic Canada, Atlantic salmon in eastern Canadian rivers are setting themselves up for spawning: the females resting, the males competing for the chance to mate.

But ahead of this year's fall spawning, scientists found a troubling presence in a river off the Bay of Fundy.

In early August, staff with the Atlantic Salmon Federation began detecting escaped aquaculture salmon at a fishway on the Magaguadavic River in southwest New Brunswick — a significant concern in the region, since farmed salmon can mate with wild fish, threatening the health of populations.

"It has very serious consequences, especially at this time of year," says Jonathan Carr, vice-president of research and environment for the Atlantic Salmon Federation.

As of Oct. 11, the number of escaped salmon detected at the Magaguadavic fishway stood at 63. In a region where wild populations of Atlantic salmon are clinging to survival, scientists say even small escapes can pose a threat.

https://thenarwhal.ca/new-brunswick-bay-of-fundy-fish-farm/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 27, 2023, 10:40:04 AM
Climate Change Is Pushing Salmon North in Alaska, Scientists Say
Researchers recently found about 100 chum salmon spawning in the Arctic, suggesting the species is shifting to new habitats

Chum salmon, the second-largest Pacific salmon species, can be found throughout the northern coastal regions of North America and Asia. But now, as the climate warms, the fish are laying eggs even farther north—in Alaska rivers that feed into the Arctic Ocean, according to a statement from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).

"We saw not only fish that were actively spawning, or had finished spawning and were still alive, but also carcasses—fish that had been spawning and already died," Peter Westley, an evolutionary ecologist at UAF who led the recent research, tells Wired's Matt Simon. "It's really consistent with that clear harbinger of climate change: this shift toward the poles."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-is-pushing-salmon-north-in-alaska-scientists-say-180983106/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 30, 2023, 08:27:34 AM
https://youtu.be/4QbALNOmzGI
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 02, 2023, 10:06:05 AM
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 02, 2023, 10:20:24 AM
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 12, 2023, 08:57:59 AM
Stream watchers fear chemical found in tires killed salmon in West Vancouver creek
Tires can leave behind 6PPD-quinone on pavement, which becomes toxic when exposed to sunlight

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Stream watchers in Metro Vancouver say they were shocked to find more than 40 dead coho salmon along the banks of a creek on the North Shore.

The West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society said there are concerns the dead fish found near Brothers Creek were caused by urban runoff, specifically a compound found in tires.

John Barker, former president of the society, says the discovery was made as part of an annual survey of Brothers Creek, which flows into the Capilano River just to the east of Park Royal Shopping Centre. Local high school students count returning adult salmon that will spawn in the creek and a tributary, Hadden Creek.

"It was a shock because it's the first time in all my surveys, or in anyone else's recollection, that we've had mortality of that amount," said Barker, who co-ordinated this year's program.

"These are all Pacific salmon. They all die after spawning but these were fresh arrivals from the ocean."



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coho-salmom-carcasses-brothers-creek-6ppd-quinone-1.7024755
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 14, 2023, 10:03:42 AM
Salmon Are Vanishing From the Yukon River — And So is a Way Of Life


Salmon stocks are declining in the Yukon. Could global warming be connected? For Grist, Max Graham talks to elders, harvesters, fishery officials, and scientists to learn more about this complicated problem and its potentially devastating repercussions.

There have been salmon in the Yukon, the fourth-longest river in North America, for as long as there have been people on its banks. The river's abundance helped Alaska earn its reputation as one of the last refuges for wild salmon, a place where they once came every year by the millions to spawn in pristine rivers and lakes after migrating thousands of miles. But as temperatures in western Alaska and the Bering Sea creep higher, the Yukon's salmon populations have plunged.

Salmon are vital to the river's Yup'ik and Athabascan communities as a source of nutrients and a symbol of cultural identity. Dense with protein and fat, Yukon kings are highly nutritious. To swim as many as 2,000 miles upriver, against the current — the world's longest salmon migration — the fish put on huge stores of fat, some bulking up to 90 pounds. (Their journey is equal to running an ultramarathon every day for a month without stopping for a snack.)

But salmon are notoriously difficult to study. They spawn in fresh water, then spend most of their lives far out in the Pacific, an area dubbed the "black box" because it's so vast and poorly understood. Most salmon research — in Alaska and along the entire Pacific Coast — is focused on streams and lakes, where it's easier to study their habitat, sample the water, and count stocks.


Read or listen to the story (https://grist.org/food/salmon-vanishing-yukon-river-way-of-life-alaska-native/?src=longreads)

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 23, 2023, 11:18:30 AM
 Olympic National Park officials announced Wednesday they are imposing new sport fishing restrictions on three rivers to protect declining populations of wild steelhead.

The Queets, Salmon and Quinault Rivers will close to recreational fishing on Monday, November 27. Due to low forecasted returns, these conservation closures are necessary to eliminate any sport impacts to wild steelhead making their way to spawning areas inside and outside the park. Olympic Peninsula steelhead were recently petitioned for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
Superintendent Sula Jacobs said in a statement Olympic National Park has significant conservation concerns for wild steelhead in these rivers based on long-term declines in annual run sizes and escapements dating back to 1980. Wild steelhead have failed to reach the State and National Park Service escapement goals in 8 of the last 10 years in the Queets and 6 of the last 10 years in the Upper Quinault.

The Queets, Quinault, and Salmon Rivers within Olympic National Park are expected to reopen to recreational angling on June 1, 2024. For current fishing regulations and information, please visit the park website at nps.gov

https://www.myclallamcounty.com/2023/11/22/olympic-national-park-closing-three-rivers-to-fishing-until-next-spring/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 29, 2023, 11:42:28 AM
Funding to improve salmon habitat

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Marine Resources' Sea-run Fisheries and Habitat Bureau has received $5.9 million to improve habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon in Maine rivers. These rivers hold the last remaining populations of the iconic species.

This project is also expected to benefit other sea-run fish species and wild native brook trout populations. The funds come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Reginal Conservation Partnership Program and will address rivers and streams changed during Maine's log drive era from the 1700s to the 1970s, when the waterbodies were straightened and widened, and logs and boulders integral to good salmon habitat were removed.

The work will involve installation of large natural wood and rock structures that will improve riverbed substrate and restore or enhance areas along the rivers and streams that provide shade and prevent erosion that can reduce oxygen levels that native fish need to survive. The DMR has not announced the specific rivers and streams it will address.

https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/news/waterfront/funding-to-improve-salmon-habitat/article_cc7c9984-88b6-11ee-a605-4700de748649.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 29, 2023, 11:51:31 AM
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 01, 2023, 09:33:29 AM
The Nez Perce Tribe shares its work to restore balance in the documentary 'Covenant of the Salmon People'

his time three years ago, the Nez Perce Tribe shared what's at stake if salmon populations in the Columbia-Snake river system don't recover.

The extensive story in the Seattle Times by Lynda Mapes outlined the ongoing fight to remove dams that have devastated salmon runs over the last century, and highlighted the tribe's thousands of years of connection with the land in what's now known as Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

Salmon once made up 60% to 70% of the Nez Perce diet, but as the river systems were dammed and the fish runs became threatened, the health of the tribe's members suffered as well.

This despite the fact that the right to hunt, gather and fish in usual and accustomed areas was explicitly guaranteed under an 1855 treaty with the United States. As Mapes' sources pointed out, treaties are the supreme law of the land, but those 170-year-old promises have not been upheld. Just as the land that was once guaranteed to tribes has shrunk over time, so have the natural resources.

https://www.inlander.com/news/the-nez-perce-tribe-shares-its-work-to-restore-balance-in-the-documentary-covenant-of-the-salmon-people-27042691


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 02, 2023, 11:48:49 AM
Feds consider removing Snake River dams in leaked agreement with plaintiffs in lawsuit
Federal scientists say there is a high likelihood of extinction for 13 Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead runs without immediate attention

The Biden administration and federal agencies are prepared to remove four lower Snake River dams to save imperiled salmon species, according to a leaked proposal among parties in a federal lawsuit and the administration's environmental council.

Republican representatives in the Northwest, as well as some electric utilities, are not pleased about the proposed agreement.

The willingness to consider removing the dams and to invest at least $1 billion during the next decade in habitat restoration and alternative energy development on tribal lands in the Columbia Basin was revealed in a leaked 34-page proposed agreement of commitments by the federal government to save endangered Columbia Basin fish. It was first reported by the online news site Clearing Up on Tuesday and then released Wednesday by Republican lawmakers.

The Snake River is the main tributary of the Columbia River, flowing from Idaho and eastern Washington into Oregon. The four dams provide irrigation and emissions-free hydropower for nearby communities, but they have also contributed to the near extinction of 13 salmon and steelhead species that return to the Columbia Basin from the Pacific Ocean to spawn, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Oregon congressman Cliff Bentz, a Republican who opposes removing the dams, joined four other state Republican congressional representatives from Idaho and Washington in writing to President Joe Biden on Wednesday, asking for clarity on some of the proposed actions – which include the possibility of removing the Snake River dams – and where replacement power would come from.

"It is imperative that our constituents, whose livelihoods depend on the Columbia River system, have a comprehensive understanding of this document's contents," they wrote, "so they can anticipate and prepare for the wide-ranging impacts that will inevitably be felt across the region should the commitments detailed in this document be realized."

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/11/30/feds-consider-removing-snake-river-dams-in-leaked-agreement-with-northwest-states-tribes/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 02, 2023, 12:09:12 PM
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 04, 2023, 07:54:34 AM
There's a crisis in the Yukon River

When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the thousands.


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But after rebuilding her sled dog team as an adult, Potts-Joseph, a member of the Han Gwich'in tribe, had to turn to store-bought dog food. The river that was once renowned for its salmon doesn't have enough to offer anymore.

"We haven't been able to fish for a number of years," she said as her dogs yelped outside her home in Eagle Village, close to the Yukon near the border with Canada.


Continue reading at the Washington Post: https://wapo.st/3sUnM8i
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 17, 2023, 15:03:23 PM
On the red list, Scottish salmon are now officially an endangered species
New calls for action to save the country's 'King of Fish.'

Scotland's 'King of Fish' has been �officially classified as an 'endangered species', prompting calls for urgent action to save it.

An internationally recognised conservation body last week added the Atlantic salmon to its red list of species at risk of extinction.

The International Union for �Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned that numbers are in steep decline and set to fall yet �further. It raises the prospect that Scotland's great angling rivers could one day be empty of the �leaping salmon for which they are world famous.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12872047/On-red-list-Scottish-salmon-officially-endangered-species.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 28, 2023, 16:05:04 PM
Fish Farms Meant to Boost Wild Salmon are Killing Them



Populations of wild salmon in fish farms, which are meant to boost the wild salmonid numbers across the globe, are facing negative impacts, according to an analysis.

Fish farms or hatcheries are where fish are raised in enclosures to be sold as food. It is the fastest-growing area of animal food production. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, roughly 32 percent of world fish stocks are overexploited, depleted or recovering and fish farming is seen by some as a solution to the overfishing problem. However, the damage caused by fish farms varies, depending on the type of fish, how it is raised and fed, the size of the production, and where the farm is located.

Farmed salmon are known to reach maturity faster than wild ones, a trait they can pass on to their offspring, making it more difficult for subsequent generations to breed. This accelerated maturation also has the effect of increasing their "boldness and aggression," a report from The Cooldown explained, which increases the chance that the fish will be killed while still in their juvenile stage. Farmed fish can also carry diseases that pose a danger to wild populations.

https://www.newsweek.com/farmed-salomon-face-negative-impacts-1855981
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 28, 2023, 20:55:04 PM
Tribe: Fish restoration should come with Hells Canyon dam relicensing

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The Burns Paiute Tribe wants the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require Idaho Power to help restore salmon and steelhead upstream of the company's three dams in Hells Canyon of the Snake River as a relicensing condition.

The dams lack fish ladders. Requiring the company to address fish passage and start to rebuild populations in the blocked areas of the river's upper basin is "necessary given the history of the problem and the multitude of benefits to addressing it," Diane Teeman, who chairs the Burns Paiute tribal council, wrote in a Nov. 15 letter to FERC Secretary Kimberly Bose.

https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/water/tribe-fish-restoration-should-come-with-hells-canyon-dam-relicensing/article_a8ba6ace-a451-11ee-89ce-8bb27831b8e5.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2024, 09:10:48 AM

A conservation non-profit is asking the National Marine Fisheries Service to list a host of Gulf of Alaska Chinook salmon populations — known more commonly as king salmon — as "threatened" or "endangered" under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and to designate critical habitat for dwindling king stocks in southern Alaska waters.

According to the Wild Fish Conservancy, "This emergency action is being taken in response to the severe decline and poor condition of Chinook populations throughout the state of Alaska." The proposed listing would protect king salmon and their habitat from the Canadian border north and west all the way to the Aleutian Islands.






https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/conservation-groups-clash-over-how-save-alaskan-king-salmon/7715856
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 25, 2024, 16:56:30 PM
Kill more striped bass to help wild salmon survive in Miramichi River: Atlantic Salmon Federation

ASF wants DFO to allow bigger bag limits, changed to fish size criteria and expansion for existing Indigenous striped bass fishery

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Dissected striped bass from the Miramichi estuary show smolt - or baby salmon - inside their stomachs.

MIRAMICHI, N.B. — Alarmed by the record low run of wild Atlantic salmon on the Miramichi River, a conservation group wants Ottawa to allow more people to catch one of their top predators: striped bass.

The Atlantic Salmon Federation has formally asked the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, or DFO, to change the way it manages striped bass in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region.

Striped bass, once a threatened species in the early 1990s, have come soaring back thanks to DFO's conservation measures. The number of large, mature stripers in the Miramichi estuary, their main spawning ground, has gone from a few thousand to closer to 472,000 in 2022.

At the same time, the number of salmon returning from the ocean to the Miramichi River has reached its lowest point and is considered in a critical state. In 2022, the Miramichi only had 18,000 large salmon and grilse, less than half of the returns from 2010.

https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/business/kill-more-striped-bass-to-help-wild-salmon-survive-in-miramichi-river-atlantic-salmon-federation-100931947/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 31, 2024, 12:17:44 PM

Opposition to Snake Dam Removel!

https://youtu.be/RqrXiG0k5dc
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 31, 2024, 12:31:05 PM
Republicans on a U.S. House panel blasted the Biden administration on Tuesday for an agreement they said paved the way for four dams' removal from the Snake River in eastern Washington state.

The agreement to take steps to restore salmon populations in the Snake River that President Joe Biden announced in December with the states of Oregon and Washington and four tribes in the region would lead the way to removing four dams on the river, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers and other Republicans on the committee's  Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security said at a hearing.

Government and academic studies have suggested that Snake River dams are an obstacle to the recovery of endangered salmon species in the Pacific Northwest, which requires action under the Endangered Species Act. Federal agreements with tribes also require the government to maintain robust salmon populations.

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/01/30/allegations-of-secret-deal-to-remove-four-snake-river-dams-aired-by-u-s-house-gop-at-hearing/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 01, 2024, 12:55:53 PM
Saving salmon: Newsom unveils blueprint for ending decades-long decline

Chinook and other salmon runs are collapsing. Conservation groups call it too little, too late. Plan includes dam removals and restoring river flows.

With salmon populations throughout California declining for decades and facing the threat of extinction, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a state strategy aimed at protecting and restoring the iconic species "amidst hotter and drier weather exacerbated by climate change."

The blueprint released Tuesday calls for tearing down dams and improving passages for migrating salmon, restoring flows in key waterways, modernizing hatcheries to raise fish and taking other steps to help Chinook, coho, steelhead and other migrating fish.

"We're doubling down to make sure this species not only adapts in the face of extreme weather but remains a fixture of California's natural beauty and ecosystems for generations to come," Newsom said in a statement.

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/01/31/saving-salmon-newsom-unveils-blueprint-for-ending-decades-long-decline/

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Post by: jwgnc on March 03, 2024, 22:46:30 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13152675/baby-salmon-dead-california-klamath-river-iron-gate-dam.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13152675/baby-salmon-dead-california-klamath-river-iron-gate-dam.html)

Mysterious disease kills 800,000 salmon babies just released into California river to help improve population in stream
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 12, 2024, 09:41:21 AM
There are glimmers of Atlantic salmon success in Maine


"Chase the fish, boy. Yer down to the backin'. Chase the fish," shouted my guide.

The Medalist reel sang as the 9-weight line wound off the spool with authority. The tip of the Sage fly rod pulsated as the 18-pound Atlantic salmon lived up to its reputation, leaping and twisting above the frothing waters of the Upsalquitch River.

The dance of this powerful silver game fish took my breath away. My heart pounded. As instructed, I chased the fighting fish downriver stumbling and banging my knees on the slippery stream-side stones.

Will those days ever return?


https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/03/12/outdoors/outdoors-contributors/atlantic-salmon-success-maine-joam40zk0w/