There's a green-and-purple oddball that tends to be more popular with biologists than fishermen

The Columbia River has 13 runs of threatened salmon. There's a long history of fishing in the basin for Chinook, coho, sockeye, bull trout, steelhead – 12 of the listed runs. Lucky number 13? Chum salmon.

Saving the unloved chum salmon (Via:KLCC Eugene)

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The 36-year-old said: 'Cage diving with great white sharks is thrilling. Standing on top of the cage as these huge fish swim around eyeballing you, makes it doubly so.'

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Tagged yellowfin recaptured after 11 years

This fish was at large for nine years, packed on about 174 pounds and was recaptured close to 4,000 miles from where it was initially tagged.

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The Ball Cutter fish tears off the testicles of unwitting anglers and swimmers

Jeremy Wade spent weeks fishing in remote Papua New Guinea after locals told him how a mysterious beast was castrating young men in the area's waters. He finally caught the perpetrator: the Pacu fish, known locally as The Ball Cutter.

This episode airs next week.

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Top ten other slang names for the Pacu.

The Nads Gnasher

The Cojones Clipper

The Sack Surgeon

The Man Tonsil Tearer

The Bullocks Remover

The Stones Stealer

The Hanging Brain Harrasser

The Manjiggles Mangler

The Package Pilferer

The Marbles Murderer

Rot Roe!

Montana officials are holding up shipments of tens of thousands of trout eggs from a federal fish hatchery to other states, as Gov. Brian Schweitzer seeks to pressure the Interior Department into changing the way it manages bison.

Officials say the eggs will have to be destroyed if they're not shipped by Jan. 2.

LINK (Via: The Huffington Post)

May we suggest a Pinot with that Redwood Forest?

From the Friends of the Gualala River.

In northern California, near the town of Annapolis in Sonoma County, there is a redwood forest that has been trying to replenish itself after taking a huge hit from logging in the past century. If, starting now, we prevent further environmental damage and allow the forest the time it needs to repair itself, it will recover.  Through these redwoods runs the Gualala River; it contains endangered salmon, a vital part of the area’s ecosystem. 

Two wineries, Artesa Napa Winery and Premier Pacific Vineyards, are proposing to clear-cut over 1,900 acres of these redwoods to be replaced by their vineyards.

In addition to its environmental significance, this area also holds great spiritual and cultural significance to a tribe of Native Americans, the Kashia Pomo, who still live there and regard it as a blessed place where their ancestors lived.  

This area under threat is home to more than 50 rare and sensitive plant and animal species, and salmon are struggling to survive.  If the proposals of these vineyards succeed, pressure for further development will increase, the salmon face extinction and the entire ecosystem will suffer a blow too catastrophic to recover from.

Add your name to the petition opposing the destruction of Redwood Forests.

Clear Cutting for vineyards is nothing new.