Coastal salmon fishing opens Saturday

Seeded on Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:52 PM EDT (The Seattle Times)

There are plenty of fishing activities to choose in the days ahead, but all eyes will be on the Saturday opening of coastal salmon fishing. A predicted large early-chinook run to the Columbia River will fuel the ocean fisheries off Westport, Ilwaco, La Push and Neah Bay. To get …

environment, salmon, fishing, lower-columbia

Muddy river slows salmon fishing

Seeded on Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:51 PM EDT (theumpquapost.com)

Salmon fishing remains very slow.

environment, salmon, fishing

Two Million Baby Salmon Released in California River

Seeded on Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:50 PM EDT (care2.com)

The American River used to have a healthy salmon population. Today, however, many of the wild salmon are gone, so they are having to be introduced by the California Dept. of Fish and Game to prevent them from dying out there. (The baby salmon were grown in a manmade hatchery).

environment, salmon

Shatner casts his voice into river of debate over Pacific salmon farming

Seeded on Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:48 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

As Captain Kirk, he often lectured his crew to respect life and not to take things for granted.

environment, salmon, aquaculture, fish-farming

Rare 'glass' reefs off the coast of B.C. may be protected

Seeded on Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:03 PM EDT (timescolonist.com)

The only known surviving glass sponge reefs in the world -- found off the coast of B.C.

environment, ocean, glass-sponge-reef

NOAA boosts UW funding for ocean-science research

Seeded on Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:55 AM EDT (The Seattle Times)

Researchers at a laboratory in the San Juan Islands will study how shifting ocean chemistry may alter the marine food web.

environment, noaa, ocean-research

Inspired by Lummi salmon ceremony

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:37 AM EDT (bellinghamherald.com)

I am very proud to have been invited to the Lummi salmon ceremony. Many good things are happening on the Lummi Nation. Young heroes and elders were recognized and raised to new levels of public respect for their hard work.

environment, salmon

Continuing rains and late spring fishing problems

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:36 AM EDT (rosevillept.com)

It used to be an annual event, water rushing and flowing over the top of Shasta Dam, the largest man-made lake in California. Because of a multi-year drought, Shasta Lake and most others throughout the state, were mere fractions of their potential maximum fill.

environment, salmon, fishingamerican-river, shasta-lake

Emergency Closure on King Salmon in the Kenai River

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:34 AM EDT (fieldandstream.com)

Those who planned a fishing trip up to Soldotna, Alaska to fish the famed Kenai River for king salmon might be in for a shocker this summer.

environment, salmon, fishing

Clearwater River Salmon anglers will have some extra time

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:33 AM EDT (lmtribune.com)

Salmon anglers will have some extra time to hook a lunker from the upper Clearwater River and its Middle Fork. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted today to delay the closing of the salmon season between the Orofino Bridge and the confluence of the Lochsa and Selway rivers.

sports, salmon, fishing

Purse seiners stand down in chum salmon dispute

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:31 AM EDT (ktuu.com)

Purse seiners in Sand Point and King Cove in Southwest Alaska are sitting out the season's first sockeye opening this week in the Area M fishery around Alaska's Eastern Aleutian Islands and Western Peninsula on the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. The Tundra Drums reports it' …

environment, salmon, fishing

33-hour commercial salmon fishing period

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:30 AM EDT (kodiakdailymirror.com)

There will be a 33-hour commercial salmon fishing period from today, to 9 p.m. Thursday. Areas open during the period include: Northwest Kodiak District (except the Kizhuyak Section will remain closed) and the Alitak District.

business, salmon, fishing

Salmon inquiry to focus on Fisheries Department's structure, fish farm effects

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:28 AM EDT (winnipegfreepress.com)

A federal commission examining the collapse of sockeye salmon stocks in B.C.'s Fraser River will focus on everything from the organizational structure at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to the possible effects of salmon farming. The commission of inquiry, headed by B.C.

environment, salmon

Dams create underwater deserts

Seeded on Sat Jun 5, 2010 8:43 AM EDT (bclocalnews.com/)

I was irked by a column that called us all to arms it would seem to fully support the long discussed "Site C" power dam on the Peace River. This would be a mistake of epic proportions in light of all the opportunities we have to diversify our power supply.

environment, dams, site-c, powell-river

Sockeye: so far, so good

Seeded on Sat Jun 5, 2010 8:41 AM EDT (kodiakdailymirror.com)

So far, the weir count for sockeye salmon in the Buskin River is higher than previous years. The count is at 650 as of June 2. Although the number is strong compared to the previous four years, it's still too early to know if the escapement goal of 8,000 to 13,000 will be met.

environment, salmon, fishing

Northwest business leaders push for climate bill

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 3:04 PM EDT (The Seattle Times)

In the face of the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S.

business, climate-bill

The numbers say it all: Canada is a climate-change miscreant

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 3:02 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

When the Harper government has something it wants everybody to know, it sends the Prime Minister to make an "announcement," gathers a gaggle of ministers to nod their heads at the words of their sage boss, issues press releases and, if necessary, buys newspaper and televisio …

environment, greenhouse-gas, co2, environment-canada

New B.C. coal mine blasted by environmentalists

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 2:59 PM EDT (CBC)

One of several new coalmines planned for B.C.

coal, environment, mining, shell-canada, campbell-river

Not too late to save BC's salmon, say researchers

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 9:30 AM EDT (thetyee.ca)

Researchers who have spent the past two decades studying one of the most productive salmon fisheries in North America say "techno" fixes like hatcheries could be doing more harm than good to salmon populations.

environment, salmon

Waiting for the salmon to run this way

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 9:29 AM EDT (Columbia Tribune)

Although it seems that summer has come too rapidly to Mid-Missouri, it is apparently not so in the great Northwest. Generally, by this time of year, we are seeing a good quantity of north Pacific salmon, specifically from the Alaskan river fisheries.

environment, salmon

Low flow in Russian River approved for another year

Seeded on Wed Jun 2, 2010 4:48 PM EDT (sonomawest.com)

Informational hearings start next week to talk about the potential effect lower flows will have on the Russian River again this summer. The first hearing is June 2 in Healdsburg followed by a June 3 meeting in Ukiah and a June 9 meeting in Guerneville. A state urgency order sig …

environment, salmon, russian-river, steelhead, biological-opinion

Bristol Bay sockeye thrive on diversity, UW report says

Seeded on Wed Jun 2, 2010 3:57 PM EDT (The Seattle Times)

In nature, as in stock investing, the key to success is a diversified portfolio, says a new study by University of Washington biologists. Sockeye salmon from Bristol Bay, Alaska, make up one of the world's most valuable and dependable fisheries — largely because of the variet …

environment, salmon

Good trout, salmon prospects in NCW

Seeded on Tue Jun 1, 2010 7:04 AM EDT (wenatcheeworld.com/)

Anglers have been reeling in salmon from Icicle Creek, trout from lakes throughout the state, and sturgeon from the Columbia River this week. In a couple weeks, those who've never given fishing a go can get into the act. During the June 12-13 Free Fishing Weekend, anyone can …

sports, salmon, fishing, trout

Judge hands California delta water users a victory

Seeded on Tue Jun 1, 2010 7:03 AM EDT (The Kansas City Star)

For the second time in nine days, a federal judge in Fresno has handed a victory to urban and agricultural water users who are seeking to increase pumping levels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Released late Thursday, U.S. District Judge Oliver W.

water, environment, drought, delta-smelt, salmon, esa

Aging Chief Joseph Dam to be upgraded in Washington state

Seeded on Sun May 30, 2010 8:28 AM EDT (dcnonl.com)

Workers are preparing to install a new 45-ton turbine at the second-largest hydropower producing dam in the United States, part of a multiyear upgrade that will generate power for an additional 30,000 Northwest homes.

environment, chief-joseph-dam

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