Tag: salmon

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Egg by Egg in the Sheepscot

Egg by Egg in the Sheepscot

Paul Koenig writing in the Kennebec Journal covers a very interesting story about how efforts to introduce Atlantic salmon roe to Sheepscot River in Palermo are using an innovative technique to be able to plant salmon eggs directly into the river gravels for the best chance of success. ... Full story

New proposals could see more wild Pacific salmon reaching their spawning grounds on the Columbia River

Columbia River Native Salmon Given a New Lease on Life

Oregon and Washington agree on plan to curtail commercial gill-netting for salmon. ... Full story

The "Action of Art" - 400 people support Alaskan salmon directed by artist Mavis Muller. Photo by Jake Schmutzler, Pilot - Mike McCann

Alaska's Salmonstock 2011 Huge Success

August 5th through 7th over 3,000 people attended Alaska’s newest multidimensional music and arts festival at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik, Alaska showing their support for wild salmon stocks. ... Full story

Salmonstock 2011 - You can say you were there man!

Salmonstock! National Acts Headline US Concert to Celebrate Wild Alaskan Salmon

Local Alaskan nonprofit, the Renewable Resources Foundation, is throwing a massive outdoor concert to celebrate wild Alaskan salmon! National headliners include; Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzmann and the 7 Walkers, Jackie Greene, Clinton Fearon and Great American Taxi. ... Full story

Chinook Salmon

Spring Chinook Fishery Reopened on Lower Columbia River

OLYMPIA - With thousands of spring chinook salmon now moving up fish ladders at Bonneville Dam, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon have agreed to reopen the popular salmon fishery on the lower Columbia River through June 15. ... Full story

Coho salmon showing the variation in normal and spawning colors

Endangered coho salmon return to Russian River

Field biologists are reporting the largest number of endangered coho salmon returning to spawn in tributaries of the Russian River in more than a decade. ... Full story

Tom Aufiero of Lafayette Ind., holds up the new IGFA world record landlocked Atlantic salmon he caught on a fly last October while fishing Torch Lake. The fish weighed 26 pounds, 12 ounces. Photo by Matt Supinski

New world record Atlantic Salmon (landlocked) ratified by IGFA

The International Gamefish Association announced Monday that a 26-pound, 12-ounce catch from Michigan, USA is the new IGFA All-Tackle world record for landlocked Atlantic salmon. ... Full story

Hydro-electric dams on the Kennebec in Maine still kill salmon by using unscreened turbines

Dams on Kennebec still killing Atlantic salmon

Public documents going back 20 years show that owners of hydroelectric dams on the Kennebec River have been aware that salmon are sucked into their turbines and are killed and maimed. ... Full story

Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon - photo by Ben Knight

EPA announces plans to assess Bristol Bay environment

After a prolonged campaign against the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaksa, sporting groups nationwide applaud EPA plans to study Bristol Bay’s fish and wildlife resources. ... Full story

The problems associated with salmon farms in coastal waters are well-documented

Farmed salmon escape in Canada

Last month, 138,000 farmed salmon escaped from feedlots on the New Brunswick side of the Bay of Fundy, a fact that scarcely caused a ripple in the Maritime consciousness reports Donald Cameron of Canada's Chronicle Herald. ... Full story

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