Fish
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Utah’s new anti-access law effect’s on fishing could be overcome by access purchase- We discussed this earlier in brief as part of the comments on the Salt Lake City, Chevron oil pipe spill into Red Butte Creek and the Jordan River. Utah anglers may have to buy access to streams. By Brandon Loomis. The Salt…
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Why doesn’t Wildlife Services get a job killing these rather than our native wildlife? Instead we have the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers doing nothing to stop their spread to the Great Lakes. Why Are Asian Carp So Fearsome? By Karen Rowan. LiveScience.com as reported in Yahoo News.
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Another good year for Idaho’s sockeye salmon? 134,000 164,000 sockeye have crossed Bonneville Dam which is more than 3 times the 10-year average. Most of those are heading to lakes in Washington State but a few are returning to lakes in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. During the last two years Idaho saw exceptionally high returns of…
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The merits of dam removal discussed. There has been an ongoing discussion about the removal of the Lower Snake River dams for many years, in fact, there was opposition to building them in the first place due to concerns about salmon runs. This article examines the pros and cons of dam removal and I think…
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Rotenone has been used a number of times on carp at this national wildlife refuge, but it never gets them all. Once again there over a million carp. Is there any long term solution? Explosion in carp numbers have caused big drop in birds at eastern Oregon refuge. By Richard Cockle, The Oregonian
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The famed runs of salmon are expected to return after two dams are removed but will they be as big? The Elwha Dam and Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River of the Olympic Peninsula were built in violation of an 1890 law which required fish passage facilities on dams “wherever food fish are wont…
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Judge Redden said the Bush Plan for salmon wasn’t good enough, Obama thinks it is. Well, here is another example of how the Obama Administration has followed the lead of the Bush Administration on environmental issues. As we can see from the Gulf Oil Spill those policies are literally a disaster. While salmon returns have…
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$27 billion in subsidies for $85 billion in catch. The article points out that the worldwide fleet capacity is about 50% to 60% larger than it should be and that there is little to no effort to conduct sustainable fishing. There are few refuges and there is little attempt at recovery of depressed fish populations.…