Colorado's wild rainbow trout story could have a fairy tale ending

Much like the mythological unicorn, though, Colorado's rainbow trout pulled a disappearing act about 20 years ago. The black magic known as whirling disease decimated the state's rainbow trout population, reducing it to less than 1 percent of the total trout population in former strongholds such as the Colorado River in the mid-1990s.

With fish hatcheries and rivers statewide soon testing positive for the parasite responsible for whirling disease, the outlook grew increasingly grim. But the tumultuous story may have finally found its fairy-tale ending.

LINK (via: The Denver Post)

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

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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)

Chinook salmon swim 46 miles upstream in a day

Some adult spring and summer chinook detected at Bonneville Dam were detected at the Dalles Dam the very next day, a distance of 46 miles.

LINK (via: The Spokesman Review)

Genetically Engineered Salmon Poses Higher Risks than FDA Claims

New evidence casts further doubt on the safety of genetically modified salmon, which no government in the world has approved for human consumption.

LINK (via:telesur)

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)