Voracious striper population growing in provincial salmon pools
Wild salmon advocates are sounding the alarm as an exploding striped bass population is being felt in prime New Brunswick salmon pools. Schools of the …
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Salmon’s Upstream Battle As The Last True Wild Food
“Salmon is the last real wild food. It’s one of our last connections to our ancestral identity as hunter gatherers. If wild salmon is suddenly …
Casting for the bulls: fishing for Idaho’s bull trout
They’re big, they’re hard-fighting, and they’re one of Idaho’s most overlooked trophy fishing opportunities, but many anglers are still confused whether they can target bull …
Plan to put wastewater into Maryland trout streams raises heated debate
Trout are among the most highly prized of freshwater fish; their presence in a stream is a sign that the water is clean, cold and …
Lamprey Surge on the Eel River
Swimming by the thousands up the Eel River this year, Pacific lamprey are literally climbing the wall of a dam near Potter Valley in Mendocino …
Steelhead numbers even lower than predicted for Columbia, Snake rivers
The news about this year’s steelhead run up the Columbia and Snake rivers isn’t getting any better. The count over the Bonneville Dam is so …
Helicopters to drop 350,000 trout into Oregon’s high mountain lakes
The term ‘flying fish’ will take on new meaning this week at Oregon’s high mountain lakes. Officials are planning to drop more than 350,000 fingerling …
DEQ chief delays ruling on Grayling fish hatchery expansion
The director of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality is delaying a decision on whether a controversial fish farming operation can substantially boost production of rainbow …
Supporting the Monarch of Inshore Species
Much of the book on roosterfish biology has yet to be written. Many of the fundamental roosterfish questions of interest to anglers have only been …
Rare Colorado Trout Rescued During Wildfire
A rescue mission performed during a raging wildfire last year may have saved a rare Colorado trout. The first batch of semen and eggs have …