Salmon Farmers’ ads more full of crap than seabed beneath their pens

DC Reid offers up a thorough analysis of these ads that were run just before the Harper Government announced new fish farm regulations.

LINK (via: Common Sense Canadian)

Alaskans fear environmental threats from mines in northwest B.C.

British Columbia's ambition of opening new mines in the province's north has raised fears in neighbouring Alaska where environmental and aboriginal groups say the industry's unchecked development threatens their salmon and tourism industries.

LINK (via:CBC News)

Plastic fish are coming to save salmon

Photo: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

In a bid to find out the kind of struggles fish that live near hydroelectric power plants face, scientists have designed "sensor fish" — plastic tubes filled with technology that can measure the stresses and strains put on salmon swimming through dam machinery.

LINK (via: The Verge)

Saving salmon with bird poop

(via: King 5)

No Preventative Trinity River Water Releases This Year

The federal Bureau of Reclamation has informed stakeholders along the Klamath and Trinity rivers that this year it will abandon its practice of releasing extra Trinity River water in August to prevent a repeat of the 2002 Klamath Fish Kill.

LINK (via: The Lost Coast Outpost)

Elwha dams: Will bringing down NW dams really help salmon?

While tearing down deadbeat dams is a step in the right direction, bigger questions may loom over the future of salmon.

LINK (via:Crosscut)