More salmon but more of them are of hatchery origin
The proportion of hatchery versus wild Pacific salmon has risen to 1 in 5 with an overall production of 5 billion smolts produced annually, up from just 500 million in 1970. There are problems which stem from this. For imperiled salmon, the competition and genetic […]
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For many years biologists have known that hatchery fish effect the fitness of wild fish through competition and interbreeding. Hatchery fish don’t have the selective pressures that wild fish do so are less fit to survive in the wild. Because of this, when hatchery fish breed […]
Continue Reading →U.S. District Court Judge James A. Redden tells Federal Government to come up with backup plan to breach dams.
Judge faults gov’t plan to save Pacific NW salmon
Associated Press
The four dams on the lower Snake River, Lower Granite Dam, Little Goose Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, and Ice Harbor Dam, were originally […]
Continue Reading →This will certainly take down the great bears and orca–
The irony is that B.C. did not dam its salmon streams like the United States did.
Silent Fall. Posted By: Chris Genovali. B.C.’s vanishing wild salmon means trouble for all. Monday Magazine.
. . . more Saving Wild Salmon, in […]
Continue Reading →4 tribes agree to settlement on restoring salmon runs. By Hal Bernton. Seattle Times. Environmentalists: Agreements won’t save salmon. Deals reached with Idaho and Northwest tribes provide funding for habitat work. By Greg Stahl. Idaho Mountain Express. Related, the presidential candidates on dams and salmon. Candidates not ready to take sides on […]
Continue Reading →Salmon Farming May Doom Wild Populations, Study Says. By Juliet Eilperin and Marc Kaufman. Washington Post Staff Writers.
Salmon farms spread disease and sea lice among wild populations.
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