The GT is the World's Baddest Ass Fish

Photo: Tim Pask

For reasons that remain mysterious, Giant Trevally attack and kill reef sharks much larger than themselves but don’t eat them. Fishers in Palau in the Western Caroline Islands, Saipan in the Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands have documented large trevally, singly or in pairs, repeatedly head-butting the sides of reef species such as Blacktip Sharks and even Tiger Sharks.

Trevally may ram more than sharks. A Hawaiian spearfisherman was rammed by a large Giant Trevally, suffering three broken ribs.

LINK (Via: JHU Press Blog)

Are salmon feedlot viruses killing Chinook salmon?

Sure seems that way.

LINK (Via: Salmon are Sacred)

NOAA reauthorizes killing of California sea lions at Bonneville Dam

Oregon, Washington and Idaho will be allowed to resume killing California sea lions at Bonneville Dam this spring.

NOAA authorized removal of up to 92 sea lions annually through May 2016 but estimates that 25 to 30 will be taken each year. The authorization allows taking only sea lions having a "significant negative impact" on salmon and steelhead.

LINK (Via: Oregon Live)

The Army Corp is also working up plans to deal with avian preadation of juvenile salmon and steelhead on the Columbia.  LINK (Via: Columbia Basin Bulletin)

Update on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 8:13PM by El Guapo

Plans to resume killing California sea lions that eat endangered salmon at Bonneville Dam are on hold again.

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PacifiCorp Gets Permission to Kill Coho

Klamblog reports on a permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service that will allow PacifiCorp’s Klamath River Dams to continue killing Coho Salmon with impunity in exchange for money. The permit will remain in effect until PacifiCorp’s Klamath River dams come down – subject to another agency review in ten years.

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Best Fishing on the Snake in a Generation

A fish count on the South Fork of the Snake River last fall showed more than 5,177 fish per mile, the second-highest number recorded since the mid-1980s.

The increasing fish counts can be ascribed to good water years and last year’s high water kept some anglers off the water and made fishing difficult when flows finally subsided.

Biologists are also continuing their work to minimize the rainbow trout population which competes with the native cutthroat.

LINK (Via: Backcountry.com:The Goat)

"This decision is a significant victory for salmon”

And steelhead and bull trout and anglers........

A federal court in Portland this week sent three federal agencies back to the drawing board on their review of how Oregon regulates the temperatures of its rivers and streams to protect salmon, steelhead, and bull trout.

LINK (Via: The Columbia Basin Bulletin)