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Braking a Catch
Salmon fishing season canceled in California, heavily restricted elsewhere |
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11 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:17 AM on 11 Apr 2008 Photo: Josh Larios For the first time ever, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council has voted to cancel the salmon fishing season off the coast of California and much of Oregon due to exceedingly low populations of chinook salmon in the Sacramento River area. The restrictions apply to commercial as well as recreational fishers; only a catch of 9,000 hatchery-raised coho ... |
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| Topics: fishing, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Threatened Level: Salmon
Oregon coast coho salmon re-listed as threatened |
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06 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:13 AM on 06 Feb 2008 Coho salmon off the Oregon coast have been re-listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Yesterday's move was compelled by a court-ordered deadline mandating that the NOAA Fisheries Service reconsider its 2006 decision to delist the coho because it wasn't based on the best available science. The Oregon coastal coho stock has been the subject of contentious debate and litigation ... |
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| Topics: fishing, news, Oregon, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Nowhere to Run
California's chinook salmon population near |
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30 Jan 2008 |
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| "unprecedented collapse" Posted at 6:48 AM on 30 Jan 2008 The number of chinook salmon returning from the Pacific Ocean to California's Sacramento River is near record lows and points to an "unprecedented collapse," according to fisheries managers. In 2007, only about 90,000 adult chinook returned to the Sacramento River, down from about 277,000 in 2006 and a high of over 800,000 in 2002. Even more troubling, juvenil ... |
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Lox and Plan and the Whole Dam Thing
Deal reached to remove Klamath River dams for salmon; obstacles remain |
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16 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:15 AM on 16 Jan 2008 The Klamath River near the California-Oregon border has been a hotspot in the clash over endangered salmon runs and the irrigation needs of area farmers, but a formal deal reached yesterday suggests a way out of the long-standing disagreements. The plan -- agreed to by a diverse group of stakeholders in the region including Indian tribes, government agenci ... |
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| Topics: dams, fishing, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Greenie Get Your Gun
Number of hunters and fishers in U.S. has declined since 1996 |
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04 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 7:50 AM on 04 Sep 2007 Wildlife agencies have been scrambling to make up funding shortfalls in the last few years due at least in part to a drop in the number of hunters and fishers and the revenue-generating licenses they buy. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, hunter numbers have declined about 10 percent between 1996 and 2006, down to about 12.5 million from 14 million, due in part to t ... |
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| Topics: fishing, news, sports, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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