Fish Escapes Halved - but Salmon Farms Have 'Long Way to Go'
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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.
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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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With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.
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By Julia Fields  THE Scottish salmon industry is failing to capitalise on booming consumer demand for its product, according to an industry leader.
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North Sea cod stocks are improving but scientists say catches still need to be cut to stop overexploitation.
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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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At a time when resource conservation is at the forefront, the days of eating 200 pounds of meat a year may also be on the way out.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 21--It's easy to sympathize with fishermen on Hatteras Island and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast who lament a pending rule that would limit catches of snowy grouper, a lucrative fish, and a few other species.
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The European Commission has suggested there should be a cut in catches for most waters. Yet the survival of stocks comes in conflict with sustaining the livelihoods of Europe's fishermen
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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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Fishing is steady although the number of anglers going out has been down somewhat. Walleye can still be taken most anywhere, but you have to work for it.  Dropping water levels have led to unusable ramps.
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After missing the final month of this past season and the American League Division Series, Tim Salmon will be sidelined quite a bit longer.
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Parasites that breed in fish farms kill so many passing juvenile wild salmon that they threaten the survival of fish populations in some rivers and streams, Canadian researchers say.
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A Royal Commission warns species are at risk unless steps are taken to close up to a third of UK fishing grounds.
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  The tragedy of four fallen fishermen has become a rallying cry for politicians hoping to reform marine regulations they say threaten the lives of men at sea with too-restrictive limits on the number of days boats may head out.
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SCOTLANDâS beleaguered white-fish fleet was last night facing another end-of-year battle for economic survival in the face of a European Commission demand for trawling to be outlawed in more than 10,000 square miles of the North Sea and west-coast waters
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 8--SOLDOTNA -- Anglers will find fewer places to fish and young salmon will find fewer places to hide here this year because of a roiling crush of ice and water that scoured the Kenai River's banks two weeks ago.