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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It's not a long season, there are plenty of restrictions and fishermen can't keep their catch.  But starting this morning, anglers will once more be angling for sea-run Atlantic salmon in Maine.
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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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Calls to increase catch quotas for depleted fish stocks, such as cod, are deeply misguided.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S - A company with ties to a fish hatchery on PEI is seeking approval to put genetically modified salmon on Canadian dinner tables.
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By TERRI THEODORE  VANCOUVER (CP) - Canadian environmentalists and aboriginal people have travelled to Norway to accuse one of the world's largest seafood companies of being more careful about the way it farms fish at home than it does in Canada.
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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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Conservationists say the survival of Mongolia's fabled taimen salmon may depend on an unusual ecotourism venture involving Western anglers.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep. 23--NACHES -- It's no easy job to keep tiny fish out of irrigation ditches and on their migratory path to the ocean.   Especially when small salmon really like slower moving waterways that offer plentiful bugs and hiding places.
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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 1--Rural villagers from Southwest Alaska launched a passionate  debate in Juneau on Wednesday over sweeping new legislation to protect salmon  and restrict mining in their region.
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PLANS to fight a disease threatening more than 2000 salmon fishing jobs were unveiled last week.  The parasite Gyrodactylus Salaris affects Atlantic salmon and has devastated stocks in Scandinavia. To date, no cases have been found in Scotland.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN and ALEX NUSSBAUM, STAFF WRITERS  Seventy percent of the state's waters  including crucial sources of drinking water such as the Oradell and Wanaque reservoirs  fail to meet federal pollution standards.
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A record run of chinook salmon is expected for California's Klamath River basin this year, prompting a federal fishery panel on Friday to suggest that restrictions on the West Coast salmon fishing fleet be eased for the 2007 season.
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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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The number of chinook salmon returning to California's Central Valley has reached a near-record low, pointing to an "unprecedented collapse" that could lead to severe restrictions on West Coast salmon fishing this year, according to federal fishery regulators.
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Millions of casual US anglers are having are larger than appreciated impact on sea fish stocks, scientists claim.
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NISQUALLY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Wash. - A 15-year plan would restore salt marshes and mudflats for migrating salmon at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, more than 100 years after the farmland was drained and diked.