Entries in Conservation (940)
Low Flows & Wild Steelhead
Monday, May 4, 2015 at 12:00AM Follow River Steward Doug DeRoy as he walks through his recent work to protect threatened wild steelhead during low flows on California's Mendocino and Sonoma Coast. Working with local stakeholders, anglers, the National Marine Fisheries Service and California Department of Fish and Wildlife Doug helped improve the low-flow closure trigger on these coastal streams to provide protection for threatened wild steelhead during low flows, while still allowing for angling opportunity.
(via: Native Fish Society)
Lousy sockeye are lousy competitors
Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 12:01AM 
Recently published research indicates that juvenile Fraser River sockeye salmon that are highly infected with sea lice are 20 per cent less successful at consuming food than their lightly infected counterparts.
LINK (via:Phys.org)
Making steelhead 'the fish of a hundred casts'
Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 12:10AM 
As anglers, we have the ability to conserve and recover steelhead populations. We can transform the dubious moniker of “the fish of a thousand casts” into the much-improved “the fish of a hundred casts.” To do that, our voices need to be used in moments like this. But time is not on our side.
LINK (via:Hatch Magazine)
Study Finds Rivers Recover Rapidly Once Dams Are Gone
Friday, May 1, 2015 at 12:05AM A new study sums up what scientists now know about the environmental effects of removing dams from rivers.
It concludes that rivers and fish respond quickly after a dam is removed, and the results are mostly positive.
LINK (via: OPB)
dam removal, well duhhhhh in Conservation, Dams, Environment Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 12:00AM Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit to stop plans to shoot more than 10,000 double-crested cormorants in the Columbia River Estuary.
Bob Salinger of Audubon Society of Portland says killing the birds to stop them from eating millions of baby salmon is a diversion from the real threat — the hydroelectric dams that kill adult fish on their way to spawning grounds, and juveniles migrating to the ocean.
