More fish giving goodness from Patagonia

Patagonia recently announced a gift of $20,000 to the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition in recognition of their 20 years uniting people for salmon, rivers, and jobs.

From Save Our Wild Salmon:

For 14 years, Patagonia, its stores and its people have supported our work to save that wild salmon and steelhead that Northwest communities and watersheds depend on - with mobilization, publicity, creative design, product donations, event sponsorship, training, contact with three administrations, seven Congresses, and seven governors - as well as linking us into their own conservation initiatives and championing us to fellow businesses.  And funding,usually at the times we most needed it.

Save Our Wild Salmon executive director Pat Ford thanks Patagonia for their many years of support in this Cleanest Line post.

Patagonia also recently announced a $10,000 grant for the Wild Steelhead Coalition in recognition of their efforts to restore the return of wild steelhead to the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

Oregon asks to kill salmon-eating birds

First sea lions, now double-crested comorants.

LINK (via: The East Oregonian)

The Legacy of Lonesome Larry

Sockeye entered the Columbia River this week, beginning a 900-mile migration that very nearly ended 20 years ago.

Only four Snake River sockeye made their way through eight dams and past nets and predators in 1992, a year after the fish that makes its home in Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley was listed as endangered. Only one male completed the final climb up the Snake and Salmon rivers to a weir on Redfish Lake Creek.....Lonesome Larry.

Lonesome Larry became the symbol of the entire Snake and Columbia salmon restoration program.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/05/19/2123092/the-legacy-oflonesome-larry.html#storylink=cpy

LINK (via: The Idaho Statesman)

One was seen riding a shipping barge through the locks at the dam

At least three, and maybe four, sea lions have managed to find their way above Bonneville Dam, the lowermost hydro project on the Columbia River (146 river miles from the Pacific).

LINK (via: Columbia Basin Bulletin)

Riddle me this...who takes more salmon on the Columbia, sea lions or fisherman?

LINK (via: Oregon Live)

BC Salmon Farm Forced to Cull 560,000 fish

Atlantic salmon farms around Vancouver Island have begun testing and formed a special outbreak management team after an IHN virus outbreak at one farm led to a site quarantine and the cull of more than half a million fish.

IHN usually kills a fish within a week of exposure and can kill up to 100 percent of an infected population.

LINK (via: The Winnepeg Free Press)

Here is what happened when the IHN virus made it's way into Chilean hatcheries.

Growing risks from hatchery fish

Further confirmation that hatchery fish suck.

A newly published collection of more than 20 studies by leading university scientists and government fishery researchers in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Russia and Japan provides mounting evidence that salmon raised in man-made hatcheries can harm wild salmon through competition for food and habitat.

LINK (via: Phys.Org)