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Thompson River steelhead runs in 2008-09 lowest ever recorded
Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 12:00AM 
British Columbia's Thompson River, among the most storied steelhead rivers in the world for its huge, hard fighting fall steelhead once supported thousands of spawning steelhead annually. As recently as the 70s numbers were over 10 thousand.
Steelhead biologists confirmed this week what was predicted last fall -- Thompson River steelhead returns for 2008-09 are the lowest ever recorded.
850 returned to spawn this past spring and only 500 are expected next year.
LINK (Via: Osprey Steelhead News)
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Reader Comments (2)
A friend of mine is counting steelhead / salmonoids in northern Cali and he says its scary how much the runs have fallen off the earth!
That's Fing tragic, something needs to be done- ban bait fishing? ban gill netting? a "native hatchery program" specific to Thompson strain steelhead? I don't know...