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 …
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Ocean Bound Factory Fish
I prefer my steelhead wild. Every year, Idaho Fish and Game raises almost 5 million steelhead in the Magic Valley Region for stocking into Salmon …
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 …
North Umpqua Summer Steelhead At Risk from Ongoing Hatchery Releases
The North Umpqua should be a wild steelhead gene bank. On January 31, 2022, the North Umpqua Coalition, consisting of The Conservation Angler, Native Fish …
Supplements to Pump Up Those Wimpy Hatchery Steelhead
Inspired by research at Oregon State University that suggests that it may be possible to change rearing methods to produce hatchery steelhead that are more …
This Just In From Planet Bullshit
How about this Einstein? Instead of trying to figure out a way to make hatchery fish more like wild fish convince wildlife managers to take …
Messing with Nature
Scientists looking for evidence that climate-caused ocean acidification is harming North Pacific salmon have instead discovered something else – a threat to wild fish from …
Will reviving B.C.’s declining salmon stocks require a rethink of hatcheries?
A “rethink” of hatcheries should not include “better hatchery solutions?” Maybe it’s time we just gave wild fish a chance to do what they do …
Another Bacterial Outbreak Wreaks Havoc at the Hot Creek Trout Hatchery
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has detected a bacterial outbreak at its Hot Creek Trout Hatchery in Mono County – the second …
Flawed Rescue?
Hatchery & wild co-exist? Scientists studying salmon in the estuaries at the mouth of the Columbia River are warning that hatcheries intended to boost …