If you believe you have consumed or handled these fish...

...then it is recommended that you should immediately seek medical attention.

One more reason you should never steal hatchery fish.

Forty-two summer chinook were stolen from the Colville Reservation hatchery, which opened two months ago. Colville tribal officials say the fish are not safe to eat or handle because they were treated with a cancer-causing agent.

LINK (via: The Seattle Times)

State officials worry about trout virus

Despite the uncertainty, state authorities confirm that they released 270,000 brown trout this year from hatcheries where fish tested positive for the cutthroat trout virus.

Say what?

LINK (via: Pierce County Herald)

It's Official!

Starting today tarpon and bonefish are strictly catch and release in Florida.

State officials tout the Wind River as a showcase for wild steelhead recovery

The stocking of hatchery-origin steelhead in the Wind River ended in 1998.

LINK (via: The Columbian)

Perhaps a few more hatcheries need to go?

Steelhead stocks on Dean River ‘hammered’ by chum fishery

The fallout from the commercial net openings continues.

Billy Blewett runs one of the most famous fishing lodges in the world on British Columbia’s Dean River, where the steelhead are renowned for being big and plentiful.

But he has been apologizing to his clients at the Lower Dean River Lodge lately because so few fish are being caught – and many of those are scarred from being entangled in nets. Mr. Blewett and others are blaming the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans because it allowed a commercial chum fishery that has concentrated more than 150 fishing boats in the area of the Dean Channel, near Bella Coola.

Mel Kotyk, DFO’s area director for the North Coast, said officials are monitoring the situation and do not believe the chum fishery is having much impact on the steelhead run.

LINK (via:The Globe and Mail)

There's more.

Billy Blewett is demanding the DFO fire Central Coast fishery manager Dan Wagner.

The North Coast Steelhead Allliance has a copy of the email.

Any angler who cares about steelhead should take some time out and email Sue Farlinger the DFO Regional Director General and demand accoutability.

Court: Water Releases to Protect Salmon in California Move Forward

A federal court ruled on Thursday that water releases planned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to protect the migration of Chinook salmon into the Klamath/Trinity rivers in Northern California should move forward.

LINK (via: Earthjustice)