Project aims to help endangered steelhead trout near Malibu

Photo: Craig Sap/California State Parks

A $3.2 million project aimed at restoring habitat for the endangered Southern California steelhead trout is set to begin this summer at Arroyo Sequit Creek near Malibu.

Two concrete roadways — known as Arizona crossings — that cut through Arroyo Sequit in Leo Carrillo State Park will be removed and replaced with free standing bridges.

LINK (via: The Los Angeles Daily News)

As Caviar Prices Skyrocket, Sturgeon Poachers Invade Pacific Northwest

Photo:Хрюша

There's no good reason for a live, 8-foot sturgeon to be tied by the tail and tethered to the shore of the Columbia River, in the Pacific Northwest.

But this is how poachers steal the giant fish: They keep the sturgeon alive and hidden underwater while they look for black-market buyers.

LINK (via:NCPR)

The Alaska Salmon Program

The Alaska Salmon Program is the oldest continuously running salmon research program in the world. Based out of the University of Washington, the program was established to investigate factors influencing salmon production during a declining salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska in the mid-1940s. The program strives to understand the ecology and behavior of salmon in relation to environmental changes through long-term research and implementation of new ideas and techniques.

This video highlights a small part of the core research conducted by the Alaska Salmon Program, and celebrates the hardworking researchers that have contributed to the program’s success.

FWS Bull Trout Coordinator Explains New Recovery Plan

One of the authors of a new plan to save the threatened bull Trout in Montana says that’s not an easy task, nor is measuring what it will take to get the fish off of the endangered species list.

LINK (via: Montana Public Radio)

Protecting South America’s Iconic Golden Dorado Fish

A new study launched last month by University of Massachusetts Amherst fisheries biologist Andy J. Danylchuk, in collaboration with Argentina’s Ministry of Environment and regional partners including Juramento Fly Fishing, Tigres del Rio, Fish Simply, and Patagonia Inc., is the first to assess the impact of catch-and-release fishing and other human and environmental pressures on the golden dorado, a fish of high economic and recreational value across South America.

LINK (via: UMass Amherst)

Time is running out on their Indiegogo campaign to fund the much needed catch-and-release research.

Atlantic Salmon Federation calls on Greenland to cut catches

Some are calling on Greenland to scrap its commercial factory salmon fishery as part of a multinational effort to protect the stock that migrates north to feeding grounds off its west coast from rivers in Canada, the States and other countries.

The Atlantic Salmon Federation released figures Wednesday indicating that Greenland caught 63 per cent of a certain type of salmon that spent two winters off its coast, while Canada harvested 35 per cent of them.

LINK (via: CBC News)