Labor Day at the Ballard Fish Ladder

Celebrate Wild Salmon

(Via: Headwaters)

Jay, you know those are like unicorns, they don't exist

Tales of 100 pound salmon helped fuel the effort to take down two dams on Washington's Elwah River. The question is, did the Elwah's salmon really grow that big and will they return?

LINK (Via: Peninsula Daily)

Tide turning against Columbia Basin hatcheries?

Federal fish biologists today issued their most thorough evaluation to date of the effects of hatchery fish on wild salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia River Basin, signaling that hatchery funding and production could be cut to better protect wild runs.

LINK (Via: Oregon Live)

SalmonsKin

A collaborative effort between Joanna Mariana Reichhold and Thomas Bang Dunklin, combining poetry and underwater salmon visuals. The clip features all 5 species of wild salmon found in the Pacific Northwest, plus steelhead trout. Geographically, it spans the whole length of the temperate rainforest, from Kodiak, Alaska to the middle fork of the Eel River.

(Via: Way Upstream)

Meet an Unlikely Proponent of Dam Removal

Patagonia is joining Save Our Wild Salmon in urging the Obama Administration to change course and remove the four lower Snake River dams. This has only strengthened collective resolve to protect salmon habitat. As Washington farmer Bryan Jones explains in a recent essay, protecting salmon habitat can be synonymous with protecting family farms and reducing their bottom-line.

Bryan Jones is a 4th generation wheat farmer near Colfax, Washington. He farms 640 acres. He and his fellow farmers rely on barges on the Snake River to move their wheat to market. This is primarily why the dams on the Snake were built.

Jones remembers going down to the Snake before it was dammed.

LINK (Via:The Cleanest Line)