Celebrity Chefs Come Together To Save Striped Bass

Monte Burke reports on some celebrity chefs that have taken striped bass off their menus to help protect declining stocks.
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Monte Burke reports on some celebrity chefs that have taken striped bass off their menus to help protect declining stocks.
LINK (via:Forbes)
Biologists are taking a unique opportunity to figure out why steelhead are dying.
They're implanting 100 juvenile steelhead with acoustic tags. That way they can track the fish as they migrate out to the ocean.
The number of sea lions and the number of salmon they’ve eaten this year in the Bonneville Dam tailrace is more than double the twelve-year average, according to a May 12 status report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Photo: Hans Stieglitz
Save our wild cormorants salmon.
A judge has refused to block a plan to shoot more than 10,000 double-crested cormorants in the Columbia River estuary.
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Nine years after this story first aired striped bass still face the same threats.
The 1980s fight to bring back the striped bass is considered one of the greatest environmental success stories. But, today the species faces a new and potentially devastating threat: the omega-3 market. Author Dick Russell talks with host Steve Curwood about what it will take to save a species that's already been saved.
(published June 30, 2006)
On average, an adult spring chinook takes about 18 days to swim 253 river miles from Bonneville Dam to Lower Granite dam, including passage over a total of four Columbia River dams and four more on the Snake River.
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