Headlines that make the Chum want to eat some Fukushima sushi

Idaho dedicates hatchery to wild sockeye revival

LINK (via: The Spokesman Review)

FWC votes 7-0 to ban controversial ‘tarpon jig’ in Boca Grande Pass

Congratulations to Save the Tarpon for leading the successful grassroots campaign to protect the tarpon of Boca Grande pass.

LINK

Meanwhile, the PTTS clown car has blown another tire.

New Report Details How Climate Change is Harming Freshwater Fish

Swimming Upstream: Freshwater Fish in a Warming World details how climate change is warming lakes, rivers and streams and making existing stresses worse, creating an uncertain future for America’s freshwater fishing traditions and the jobs that depend on them.

LINK (via: Ecowatch)

Restoration effort benefits steelhead trout in San Francisquito Creek

The hard-luck steelhead trout of San Francisquito Creek will have one less obstacle to surmount once the storms of winter set the stage for their annual spawning runs.

A construction team has removed a century-old concrete barrier from a section of the creek in El Palo Alto Park on the Palo Alto-Menlo Park border, restoring the streambed to a more natural course. The roughly 40-foot-wide structure, known as a weir, had acted at times as a dam, trapping the federally threatened fish on either side.

LINK (via:The San Mateo County Times)

Nobody in the Northeast is having much success bringing back Atlantic salmon.

The future of the long-running but unsuccessful attempt to bring Atlantic salmon back to the Merrimack River is struggling to stay afloat, one year after the federal government pulled the plug on similar efforts on the Connecticut River.

LINK (via:The Telegraph)

Sacre Bleu!

The French capital is reeling from the news that a fisherman caught a testicle-munching fish on the Seine.

LINK (via: The Telegraph)

New rule: Do not to release your overgrown ball chomping pets into the wild.