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they impacted? To what do they attribute the
Klamath River fish concerns? We share with
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Fishy definitions,
compiled by Julie Smithson, 11/15/06. For anyone hoping
to make sense of scientific reports or fishery data,
this information is essential. Smithson defines terms
like 'Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), Fish and Wildlife
Coordination Act, Habitat Effectiveness Index (HEI), etc
to help us understand technical reports. Thank you
Julie. |
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FULL NAS report:
Delayed upwelling alters nearshore coastal ocean ecosystems in the
northern California currents, Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science March 2007.
HERE for summary,
"We
devote a large amount of our resources for salmon recovery to
in-stream habitat restoration ... but should also be focusing some
resources on learning more about the oceanic conditions that
effect salmon population health as well." |
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Emails about the book
The Great Salmon Hoax by James
Buchal have been circulating in the
midst of Klamath dam destruction
schemes. Dams, mismanagement,
Endangered Species Act, ..."This
book is written to begin debunking
these myths and provide a
comprehensive summary of the best
available scientific evidence on the
prospects for salmon recovery. It
also tells the many stories of how
these myths arose, who is promoting
them, and how the promoters have
overcome both science and law.
Myth #1: Columbia Basin Salmon Are
in Danger of Extinction." |
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Fishing Report Lower Klamath - "The mouth of the Klamath has been sanding in and opening two to three times per week according to Mike Coopman of Mike Coopman's Guide Service. "There's still fresh fish entering the river and I would expect more to show with the big tides. With the mouth opening and closing, we should see some good surges of fish this weekend. I was on the river last Saturday and the fishing was still good. We had 10 solid hookups, landing fish to 35-pounds," Coopman said." The Times-Standard 10/27/11
San Diego Superior Court Upholds California Fish and Game Commission Regulations Pertaining to Marine Protected Areas, Rejects Arguments of Coastside Fishing Club, Somach Simmons and Dunn 10/25/11
Klamath River fishing report, Redding Record Searchlight, posted to KBC 10/12/11. "KLAMATH RIVER, Iron Gate Dam — "The river in the upper Klamath is stuffed with salmon..." 10/10/11. KBC NOTE: According to the Klamath River Tribes, government agencies, and environmental groups, the dams and algae and farmers and miners made the salmon almost extinct so we need to demolish 4 hydropower dams and downsize agriculture and they already ended gold mining because of that lie.
Columbia Basin Bulletin 9/16/11: Sea Lion removal, record salmon runs on Snake, strong Chinook and Coho, etc
Fishing for
wild coho opens Sept. 15 on coast, Statesman Journal, posted
to KBC 9/15/11. (KBC Note: $Millions have been spent on
"endangered" coho habitat, land and water acquisitions, ...)
Klamath River, Understanding Fall Chinook Salmon Allocations, by Ronnie M. Pierce 1998.
Columbia Basin Bulletin 3/4/11. ESA-Listed Steller Sea Lions Munching Away On Non-Listed White Sturgeon, States Seek Delisting Of Steller Sea Lions, "In 2002 the total EDPS population was estimated to number from 46,000 to 58,000. Much of the turnaround resulted from the near elimination of predator control kills and commercial harvest. A 2007 study concludes that the “population is now probably as high as it has been in the past century...”
Supes seek salmon solution – in Yakima,
by Ric Costales, Siskiyou Daily News 3/2/11
Costly
Regulations Threaten Jobs and Access to Fishing,
PR
Newswire, posted to KBC 3/2/11
Historical salmon fisheries in the Pacific
Northwest, by Dr. Gierak 2/16/11, VIDEO.
"...it is clear that with the
introduction of dams on the Klamath river,
commercial salmon production has increased
significantly based on the historical
numbers."
Is Obama Swimming
Upstream With Campaign Against Salmon Bureaucracy?
Fox News, posted to KBC 2/5/11. "Joseph
Bogaard, of Save Our Wild Salmon, admits there is overlap and wasted funding.
Efforts to save salmon runs have cost the country $10 billion over the last 20
years. And yet, salmon runs still fluctuate wildly from year to year. 'We
are making decisions that are ineffective," Bogaard said "We're spending
billions of dollars on
programs
that aren't working, we're not restoring our salmon, and as a result we don't
have healthy, fishable populations.' " "
Obama's long-range plan is still to spend nearly $10 billion on salmon
protection over the next decade." Save Our Wild Salmon is the group
advocating removing dams on the Snake and
Columbia...board member
Glen Spain (and
voting member in the KBRA)
Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Bulletin,
posted to KBC 2/6/11 (wild vs hatchery, steelhead, sea lions eating sturgeon,
water rights changes, ...)
Study predicts which salmon will
spawn, Genetics play role in deciding which fish will live to
reproduce, H&N 1/14/11
Columbia Basin Bulletin, including:
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Alaska Salmon Harvest 11th Largest Since
Statehood; Best Value In 18 Years
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BPA Proposes 8.5 Percent Wholesale Power Rate
Hike Beginning Oct.1 2011; Final Decision In
July,
CBB,
posted to KBC
11/26/10
Salmon facing new threat, "the
number of salmon in the North Pacific having
doubled in the past 50 years,
scientists are increasingly concerned there may
not be enough food to support them, and changing
ocean conditions could make it even worse," H&N,
11/26/10
Proposed marine reserve sites now posted
online, ODFW, posted to KBC 11/23/10
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Appeals Court Rejects Lethal Removal Of
Salmon-Eating Sea Lions; Remands Issue Back
To NMFS, Columbia Basin Bulletin
11/23/10
Latest Forecast Predicts
Spring Chinook Return At 340,000 Fish; Second Best On
Record, Columbia Basin Bulletin 5/21/10
Suckers being moved from (Tulelake) refuge to
(Klamath) lake, H&N 5/13/10. "...We
think most, if not all, of these (fish) originated in
Upper Klamath Lake, so we’re just putting them back
where they came from...”
Columbia Basin Bulletin
2/26/10, "Sea Lions Snacking On Sturgeon, Last
Year's Huge Fall Chinook Jack Return Brings
Predictions Of Big Run This Year, Higher Return
Of Sacramento River Fall Chinook, Revise Critical
Habitat For Bull Trout, Northwest Tribes Receive $1.3
Million..."
Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife
Bulletin, posted to KBC 1/10/10 * 'Early Bird' Basin Water Supply
Forecast For Spring, Summer Shows Below Average * Mid-Columbia Coho Restoration Program Showing Fish Returns
'Beyond Expectation' * Refined Forecasts Show 2010 Could See Record Return Of Wild
Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook * Increased Efforts To Reduce Bird Predation At Mid-Columbia
Dams Help Achieve Fish Survival Standards
Columbia Basin Bulletin, 12/11/09, including:
* Harvest Managers For 2010 Predict Largest Spring
Chinook Return On Record
* 2009 Fall Chinook Redd Counts In Snake River's Hells Canyon
Marks Another Record
Rebuilding the North Coast salmon run, Napa Valley
Register, posted 11/30/09. "Prosecute
illegal gill-netters and gill-netting techniques through the
enforcement of applicable federal and state laws. Currently,
Hoopa gill-netters are dropping nets that extend bank to bank,
which makes it virtually impossible for salmon to make it past
the nets. Also, I believe this tribe is fishing with gill nets
during the day and have continued to fish with gill nets after
their fish quota has been achieved. These practices are
illegal according to federal and state law and the Hoopa
Tribal Fishing Code."
Are gill nets decimating Klamath and Trinity salmon runs?,
Redding Record Searchlight 11/8/09. "Ferris,
now 57, says he catches as many as 700 salmon a year using
gill nets....
the Yurok and the Hoopa Valley tribes - report that they've
hauled in almost 28,000 fish, close to this year's
allotment, Huber and other guides said very few salmon are
making it past the tribal waters and into areas where they
can catch them...20,000
pounds of salmon - about 2,000 fish worth $60,000 - from the
Trinity caught by members of the Hoopa Valley Tribe ended up
for sale at the San Francisco fish market..."
"That is our river," Fletcher (Yurok) said. "Those are our
fish..."
Columbia Basin Bulletin posted to KBC 11/1/09
My
Opinion: Coho in the Klamath River.
This report has been made by history research writer and
former and half-century resident of the Klamath River, Karuk
tribal member James
A. Waddell, in 2009
Coho returning
to Columbia in big numbers,
Capital Press 10/26/09. "About
700,000 coho were projected to return to the river system this
year -- at least 200,000 more than last year...They say ocean
conditions are mostly responsible."
Huge coho run will
help feed Oregon’s hungry, ODFG, posted to KBC 10/28/09
Fishermen contest plans for Calif. ocean reserves, Capital
Press, posted to KBC 10/28/09
No surprise:
Salmon most expensive endangered species, Oregonian,
posted to KBC 10/18/09.
"...the total spent on the 13 salmon and
steelhead species in the Columbia Basin since 1978 exceeds $12
billion."
NW Fishletter #267,
October 12, 2009
Analysis: Dam Breaching Made Simple
BiOp Plaintiffs File Same Old Complaints
Plaintiffs Want Docs From NOAA's 'Secret'
Science Panel
Juvenile Steelhead Survival Soars In
Hydro System
Huge Jack Count For Fall Run In The Snake
700 Sockeye Make It All The Way To
Redfish Lake
New Klamath Settlement Targets BuRec As
Likely Removal Entity
Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife
Bulletin, 10/16/09 including:
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Snake River Wild
Steelhead Return Breaks Record; Fall Chinook Jacks Four Times
Previous Record
* Fall Fish Returns Strong, Catch Rates High; Sport Coho Catch
Second Highest On Record
California
panel adds new marine sanctuary zone, Sacramento Bee
8/7/09. "The new preserves cover 153 square miles of ocean
between Half Moon Bay and Mendocino. Starting Jan. 1, fishing
will be permanently banned or restricted in the zones...The
Department of Fish and Game estimates "adequate" law
enforcement in the statewide preserve network would cost $27
million in the first year and $17 million annually thereafter.
It has nowhere near that level of funding." A Comment:
"We are adding
sanctuary zones to protect fish, but we are releasing 40K
prisoners on the general population of California to prey on
them."
Klamath’s fall run of chinook promising; Numbers slightly up
from recent years, Triplicate, posted to KBC 8/6/09.
"...a report...estimated the number of
2-year-old Klamath-spawned chinook in the ocean at about
500,000. “We are predicting 131,000 to 139,000 3-year-olds in
the Klamath,” "... this is a slightly higher run than normal.”
“We have a record level allocation for this season on the
Klamath. The in-river sport fishery has been allocated 30,800
fish and the tribes have been allocated 30,900.”
Forecast: Record
700,000 Coho Headed For Columbia, Strong Summer Steelhead, Fall
Chinook Run, CBB
July 24, 2009
Recreation
Report: Make plans for ocean coho fishing trip,
East
Oregonian 6/25/09. "SALEM
- The 2009 season managers have set the largest ocean coho quota
since 1992."
Commission approves coastal coho, fall chinook seasons,
ODFW 6/5/09
Sea Lions Avoid
Traps In Favor Of Dam's Concrete Pad; Stellers Taking More
Salmon, CBB May 8,
2009
Fall-run Chinook lags; coho run will be huge, Statesman
Journal, posted to KBC 4/12/09
PFMC
Again Recommends Closing Most Salmon Fishing Off California,
Southern Oregon Coast,
CBB 4/10/09
Ocean salmon seasons on brink of big changes, Oregonian,
posted to KBC 3/30/09. "Anglers
are looking forward to one of the best (predicted, anyway)
offshore salmon seasons in the memories of many; certainly the
best of this century...wait a minute...this millenium! At a
minimum, there appear to be enough coho salmon available to
fish through much, maybe most, of the summer."
Humane Society Arguments Open
Briefing In Appeals Court Sea Lion Removal Case,
CBB 3/27/09
Siskiyou Supervisors Trash Fishing and Cal Trout, by
Felice Pace, response by Marcia Armstrong, Siskiyou
County Supervisor 3/21/09
Appeals Court Upholds NOAA's
Hatchery vs. Wild ESA Salmon Listing Policies,
CBB, posted to KBC 3/21/09.
Ocean
'Indicators' Help Develop Forecasts For Columbia River Salmon
Returns, CBB, posted to KBC 3/21/09. "The June 2008
trawls for chinook were 'the best that we've seen,' "
Ocean
Conditions, Lack Of Biodiversity Likely Caused Sacramento
River Chinook Collapse, CBB posted to KBC 3/21/09 3/20/09
Council
invites comment on options for 2009 ocean salmon seasons,
Ore. Dept of Fish and Wildlife 3/20/09. "In
meetings last week, the PFMC announced the strongest hatchery
coho abundance forecast since 2001, raising prospects of a
banner year for sport fishermen along the coast."
Pacific
Fishery Management Council releases salmon abundance forecasts
for 2009 fishing season, posted to KBC 3/13/09
(States Begin Trapping Salmon-Eating Sea Lions, CB Bulletin
3/13/09
Oregon) coho fishing holds promise; Chinook fishing likely to
be nil, Umpqua Post 3/10/09
Judge Denies Stay Request To
Halt Lethal Sea Lion Removal Below Bonneville Dam,
CB Bulletin 1/30/09
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