Winter weather 'confuses salmon'
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BBC NI environment correspondent Martin Cassidy on warm weather affecting salmon.
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By JOHN HOLYOKE  Bright and early on Friday morning, anglers will begin wading the Penobscot River, fly rods in hand, during the first Atlantic salmon season since 1999.  The river, finally, is open ... at least on a limited, experimental basis.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 15--STOCKTON -- Levees channeling water through the web-like Delta are nothing like the riverbanks of old, where salmon swam in the shade of native cottonwoods and tangled brush crowded the shores.
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By Gareth Purnell  THE area's pools have fished remarkably well following the snow and the freeze.  For instance, I've always thought of Barston Lakes as a great summer water where sport drops off in winter because it's so shallow.
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By T.C. Mitchell, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  May 30--Cook Inlet fishermen started harvesting salmon Monday, but as of Tuesday morning the catch totals weren't clear.   Wind and rain apparently slowed the fishing.
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By Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 25--LOS BANOS -- A farm road runs through the shriveled San Joaquin River where chinook salmon are supposed to swim in seven years.
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By Allen Thomas, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 8--Fall chinook salmon fishing in the lower Columbia River is likely to close next week.   Washington and Oregon officials will meet by telephone at 2:30 p.m.
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The forecasters who predicted this summer's rain expect one of the coldest winters on record - but the Met Office is not so sure.
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By Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times  Sep. 14--Less than a week ago, everyone was worried about the coho salmon  runs being a no-show in Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.   My, how so much has changed in such a short time.
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By Tom Koenninger, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 7--ABOARD ESSAYONS -- A winter mix of rain and snow slashed across the deck of this ponderous ship as she moved downstream on the Columbia River, barely a whisper faster than the current.
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Winter will be warmer than normal in the U.S. Western and Plains states and colder than usual in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, but the return of El Nino is making it hard for forecasters to hazard a guess for much of the country, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
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Two contradictory developments always occur as we get into autumn, the water cooling and winds often brisk across the choppy seas -- the fishing improves at the same time fishermen disappear. The first wave of dwindling anglers occurs after Labor Day when the vacationers return from their seaside rentals, and as September deepens more boats return to their cradles for ...
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High blood pressure may be more difficult to control in winter than in summer, research suggests.
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By DAVID ROSS HIGHLAND CORRESPONDENT  SCOTLAND'S fish farming industry has been accused of playing Russian roulette with wild salmon after one company said it wanted to expand production by more than 500per cent.
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By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Dec. 10--Biologists have found a surprise in Amon Creek, the small stream that runs through south Richland.   The creek is dotted with redds, or gravel beds where salmon have laid their eggs.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 17--If you're one of those Southcentral Alaska anglers wondering if the 2007 salmon season got off to a slow start, rest assured it's not just in your head.   Or at least, not all of it.
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By JOHN ROSS  THE number of salmon escaping from Scottish fish farms has halved in the past four years, an industry body will be told today.   The number of escapes has fallen from 310,000 in 2002, when statutory reporting began, to 157,000 in 2006.