Scientists: Salmon Hatchery Policy Flawed
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The proposed new federal policy for salmon hatcheries is based on a flawed reading of the Endangered Species Act, hindering efforts to restore wild salmon runs with hatchery fish, scientists say.
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The discovery of intersex fish --   males with some female characteristics, including some carrying   eggs -- in Washington's Potomac River is raising concerns about   pollution from chemicals that can affect hormones.
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It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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Fishermen are famed for overstating the size of their catches, but science has found an instance in which they may have underestimated their prowess: an unexpectedly big toll on saltwater fish populations.
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A decision by the UK's leading organic body to license salmon farms sparks concerns its standards are slipping.
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The Bush administration Tuesday proposed large cuts in federally designated areas in the Northwest and California meant to aid the recovery of threatened or endangered salmon. Protection would focus instead on rivers where the fish now thrive.
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Intensive farming of salmon for American dinner plates is threatening some wild salmon populations with imminent extinction, according to the most detailed study ever done of the contentious issue. The study comes as the federal government and aquaculture industry are pushing hard for a major...
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Mar. 3--Fall-run chinook salmon that make a home in the Sacramento River and its tributaries fell last year to their lowest numbers since 1992, according to estimates by the Pacific Fishery Management Council.
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Don't count on freezing eggs to offset a ticking biological&#13;&#10;clock just yet
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By JOHN ROSS  WILD fish groups have attacked the chief executive of the salmon farming trade body over "selective and disingenuous" use of figures relating to fish farm escapes.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By JOHN FLESHER TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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Today in Anchorage, Alaska, international researchers will convene to discuss the use of the latest advances in genetic analysis technology to address the conservation and management of wild salmon in the Pacific Ocean.
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A new test could help scientists determine more quickly whether chinook salmon in the Klamath River are infected with a potentially deadly parasite.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 8--Even a nonprofit fish conservation organization apparently is not immune to the growing problem of metal thievery.
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 4--SOLDOTNA -- Backers of a proposed Kenai River gillnet fishery for Ninilchik residents ran into a thick web of opposition this weekend during the first meetings of a consensus-building group of fishermen.
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A proposed change in how the federal government measures water for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta has environmental groups alarmed and California officials concerned about potential harm to wildlife habitat.