Catfish lands small angler!

"Plucky" angler Robert Godi's massive 250 lb. 2 oz. wels catfish is likely the world's largest ever caught.

LINK (Via: Mail Online)

Burbot, a native Great Lakes fish species, are slimy, big-mouthed bottom feeders.

“That’s why they call them lawyers,” said Martin Stapanian, a research ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Lake Erie Biological Station.

LINK  (Via: The Great Lakes Echo)

The Kenai is closed for Kings

Lousy returns have forced the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to order an emergency closure of the Kenai for king salmon fishing through the rest of June and into July.

LINK (via: The Alaska Dispatch)

EPA gives pesticide deadline to protect salmon and steelhead

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given pesticides manufacturers a deadline of May 13th to agree to new restrictions on applying three farm pesticides that pose a threat to Pacific salmon and steelhead. If the companies don't comply by May 13th, the EPA will take legal action.

The EPA action comes 18 months after NOAA Fisheries Service found that the pesticides threaten the survival of 27 species of salmon and steelhead in the West. Anti-pesticide groups had initially sued EPA over the issue in 2001. The chemicals have been found by federal biologists to interfere with a salmon and steelhead's sense of smell, making it harder for them to find food, avoid predators and return to native waters to spawn. 

LINK  (Via:Business Week)

Man jailed for weighting fish

A suburban Dallas man must serve 15 days in jail after admitting to stuffing a lead weight into a bass he caught during a fishing tournament.

He was also upset that tournament officials were going to cut the fish open to see what was inside.

"They were going to slaughter my fish," he said

LINK (Via:The Dallas News)

Fraternity Brothers Wanted

Hazing of double-crested cormorants that eat juvenile salmon and steelhead on their migration to the Pacific will begin next week in the Nehalem and Tillamook estuaries. 

LINK (Via:The Statesman's Journal)

Wildlife officials began hazing sea lions Friday to move them away from Willamette Falls fishing areas.

LINK (Via:West Linn Tidings)