TU opposes proposal that would place hatchery trout in Pa. wild waters
The Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited has taken a stand against a proposed regulation for 12 wild trout waterways.. Lenny Lichvar, president of the Pennsylvania Council …
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Not So Pretty In Pink
According to new research, pink salmon hatchery programs have been so successful they are harming other species. Scientists from Vancouver Island, Alaska, and Washington State …
Hatchery salmon smothering wild salmon?
Scientists studying warming in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest have stumbled on a new way in which the state’s massive aquaculture industry could be harming wild …
Debate about state’s salmon, steelhead hatcheries rages on
In 2022, tribes released more than 39 million salmon from hatcheries, rearing ponds, marine net pens, and incubation facilities across Washington state. Only a tiny fraction …
Release of captive-bred native fish negatively impacts ecosystems
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that large-scale fish releases negatively impact ecosystems as a whole, while offering …
Trapping Pink Salmon in Norway
Custom-built weirs for capture and removal of invasive hatchery pink salmon out of two rivers in Norway.
Too Many Pinks in the Pacific
There are three times more pink salmon in the ocean than there were about 50 years ago. Nearly three out of every four salmon in …
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon
The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway. The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But …
ODFW votes to end N. Umpqua summer steelhead hatchery release
Somewhere Frank Moore is smiling. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has decided not to release hatchery summer steelhead smolts into the North Umpqua River …
Disappearance of Hatchery Steelhead Solved !
Washington State hatchery managers have reported that nearly 250,000 young steelhead fish set for release into the Snake River later this year are missing …