Calif. salmon population declines
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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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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.
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By Patricia Barclay, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 26--The ultimate elitist campaign, an effort by chefs to lobby for tearing out the lower Snake River dams, has hit. Somehow, they think this will let them continue to serve wild Alaska salmon, mostly in San Francisco and Seattle.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ California is on the verge of blazing a new environmental path with the toughest restrictions in the nation on exotic clams, crabs and other nonnative aquatic species that harm river and bay environments, threaten water supplies and clog water pipes.
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After encouraging gains in the 1990s, populations of loggerhead sea turtles are now dropping, primarily because of commercial fishing, according to a federal review.
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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.
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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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The number of loggerhead turtle nests was substantially lower in 2007 than in past years, according to preliminary numbers from scientists statewide.
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They are puny, peculiar and strictly part-time &#151; the plants and animals that populate shallow ponds across California and southern Oregon, coming to life each winter and disappearing in summer. But with development drying up these vernal pools, they're also endangered.
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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 report comes as the federal government and the aquaculture industry are pushing hard for a major...
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By Denis Cuff, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 19--SOS to California boaters: Watch for a stowaway shellfish that could wreak havoc to the state's environment and economy if you let it sneak aboard.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 3--For a pip-squeak of a fish, Delta smelt are becoming a whale of a threat to California's water supply.
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As saltwater game fishing continues to slow in northern waters, the most exciting development in years is the continuing Atlantic salmon season, the first one since 1999 in the last wild salmon waters in the northeast -- Maine's Penobscot River. In the seven years of the closed salmon fishery, the Atlantics have returned little by little to about 70 percent ...
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Populations of the hamster-like American pika continue to decline in the West and global warming is partly to blame, a new study says.
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The number of visitors to nature-oriented national parks has been on the decline.
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Last year, Maine's lobstermen reported a 14 percent decline in catches. This year, the outlook could be worse.
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WASHINGTON, March 12  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is making drastic reductions and redeployments of staff in the National Wildlife Refuge System throughout the Pacific region.