Action Alert: Oregon's Coastal Wild Fish In Jeopardy

A very important Action Alert from Native Fish Society.

Oregon’s coastal wild salmon, steelhead, and cutthroat trout need your help. These fish are an important part of the unique heritage of Oregon, but their future is at risk from a new ODFW Coastal Management Plan (CMP), which fails to adequately employ the best-available science to address habitat, harvest, and hatchery pressures facing these coastal salmonids.

There is still time to remedy this plan. ODFW is accepting public comments on the draft CMP until February 10, 2014.

Native Fish Society is asking all pf us who care about wild fish to send comments to ODFW prior to the dedline, and they've made it easy for you to do so through the link below to their Action Alert Page. It only takes a few seconds and it could have a huge impact on the future of Oregon's coastal wild fish.

TAKE ACTION - Send your comments today!

New form of idiocy surfaces on the Rogue

Oregon State Police are reporting that there are some dipshits on the Rogue catching wild steelhead, clipping their adipose, then releasing them so the next person to catch the fish can keep it as a hatchery fish.

It's not just happening on the Rogue.

While somewhat isolated now on the Rogue, the practice has been more pronounced on the nearby Umpqua River, where no wild steelhead can be kept.

Jail time and heavy fines await anyone caught clipping wild steelhead.

LINK (Via: The Mail Tribune)