Fishermen lament plunge in Scottish wild salmon catch
In the shimmering rapids of the River Spey that cuts through the Scottish Highlands, Ian Gordon casts his line with a languid swish and waits …
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Wild, Native Brook Trout and Why They Are So Ecologically Important
Poets sing of them. Anglers covet them. The fact that they still survive at all in this stressed-out twenty-first century world all across their Appalachian …
First Drone Video of Orcas Hunting and Killing a Great White Shark
Incredible drone footage from Discovery’s “Shark Week” programming depicts three orcas hunting and killing a 9-foot great white shark. The orca bites the shark around …
Bull trout recovery fight flows back to Ninth Circuit
This week a Ninth Circuit panel took up Montana conservation groups’ six-year battle with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over what the groups say …
AI-enabled fish gate filters invasive salmon out of Norwegian waterways
After being introduced to Russia’s White Sea in the 1950s, non-native Pacific salmon have since spread along Norway’s coastline and into its rivers. In an …
Roadway Runoff Known to Kill Coho also Affects Steelhead, Chinook Salmon
Stormwater runoff containing a toxic compound from automobile tires that washes into streams is lethal to protected coho salmon, Pacific steelhead, and Chinook salmon, according …
Feds decide against classifying Snake River spring Chinook as ‘endangered’
Federal fisheries managers found that wild salmon and steelhead from the Snake and Columbia rivers are threatened by climate change like never before, and that …
Wild North Umpqua summer steelhead returns showing improvement
Some good news from Oregon. According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, numbers of wild summer steelhead returning to the North Umpqua River …
US Protections for Idaho Salmon, Steelhead Are Here to Stay
A five-year review by U.S. officials has determined that Endangered Species Act protections for ocean-going salmon and steelhead that reproduce in the Snake River and …
Saving the legendary landlocked salmon of Sebago Lake
While Arctic char are considered by most to be Maine’s rarest native freshwater salmonid, landlocked salmon are rarer. They are eclipsed only by endangered sea-run …