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Ecotrope
By Cassandra Profita
May 21, 2012
A bill that passed in the 2012 Oregon Legislature promises to deliver more fish to the Oregon Food Bank.
House Bill 4068 makes it legal for the food bank to pay fish processors to package unintentionally caught fish – aka bycatch – that can’t be sold in the marketplace.
Vancouver Sun
By Tiffany Crawford
May 20, 2012
There could be an all-aboriginal fishery on the Fraser River this summer, following early predictions that not enough salmon will return to allow for a commercial catch, say fishery managers.
Only between 1.2 million and 3.8 million sockeye salmon are forecast to return, down from five million last year, said Mike Lapointe, chief biologist for the Pacific Salmon Commission.
The Seattle Times
By Mark Yuasa
May 20, 2012
Here is the weekly update on the Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program happening on the Columbia River.
The harvest total from May 7-13 was 5,291 pikeminnow (3,543 the prior week) from 1,303 anglers (1,108 the prior week) for a catch average of 4.1 fish per angler (up from the prior week of 3.2) with 14 tags recovered (12 the prior week).
Red Bluff Daily News
By Andrea Wagner
May 19, 2012
About 20 people walked atop the massive fish screen structures of the Red Bluff Diversion Dam Fish Passage Improvement Project Thursday afternoon for a tour of the nearly complete facilities.
The Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority could be delivering water into the canal from the Sacramento River as early as next week, said Bill Vanderwaal, the project manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, who helped lead the tour.
The Seattle Times
By Mark Yuasa
May 19, 2012
The nontribal commercial salmon troll fishery began on May 1, and initial reports showed chinook fishing was fairly good.
“They started out really great, and hit a batch of fish right away and had some big catch days,” said Wendy Beeghly, a state Fish and Wildlife coastal salmon biologist. “But, since this last storm the fish seemed to have dispersed and they weren’t doing quite as well.”
Ecotrope
By Cassandra Profita
May 21, 2012
A bill that passed in the 2012 Oregon Legislature promises to deliver more fish to the Oregon Food Bank.
House Bill 4068 makes it legal for the food bank to pay fish processors…
Vancouver Sun
By Tiffany Crawford
May 20, 2012
There could be an all-aboriginal fishery on the Fraser River this summer, following early predictions that not enough salmon will return to allow for a commercial catch, say fishery managers.
Only between…
PhysOrg
May 22, 2012
With up to 25% of fish catches being caught illegally across the world, and with an estimated cost to Europe of up to €10 billion by 2020, the EU were eager to address the problems facing…
FIS
By Analia Murias
May 22, 2012
The anchovy fleet consisting of about 60 purse seiners based in Galicia expressed concern and disappointment at the weak current season as the specimens are small and unattractive for the industry.
Because of…
CNN Money
By Jennifer Alsever
May 22, 2012
Joe Rizzi first heard the underwater songs of humpback whales a decade ago while scuba diving near Hawaii. Enthralled, he decided to pipe their migration music into his beachfront home.
Here’s the…
PhysOrg
May 21, 2012
PhD student Vivienne Johnston is working with Dr. Jason Hall-Spencer at Plymouth focusing on the effects of ocean acidification on ecosystems close to volcanic carbon dioxide vents.
Her research published today (18th May) in the journal…
The Phnom Penh Post
By Shane Worrell
May 21, 2012
A study the Lao government has used to claim the Xayaburi dam would be harmless if redesigned has been criticised for not addressing concerns about the project’s effect on fish…
FIS
By Natalia Real
May 18, 2012
The yearly two-and-half month-long fishing ban began this week in most of the South China Sea to restore marine resources, fishery authorities informed. Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries which…
MSNBC
By Miguel Llanos
May 22, 2012
In a bid to track sea pollution by mimicking how fish navigate and work together, scientists on Tuesday moved their robotic fish from the lab to the sea.
The technology could reduce the…
Capital Public Radio
By Kathleen Masterson
May 21, 2012
More than a century after the Gold Rush, California is still dealing with the toxic remnants of the mining industry. There are an estimated 47,000 abandoned mines in the state; some…
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