Rainer
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So far nothing. I keep checking but it looks like it is stuck at the Natural Resources committee .Got text? I’m struggling to find it.
But by the title, this feels like a kiss to “make it all better”, when the “ouchie” is a sucking chest wound. Just ban the crap already- trawling has wrecked every marine ecosystem and fishery it has ever touched, including Atlantic Cod on George’s Bank.
Pretty cool stuffMost of these sockeye are heading for the Canadian side of the Okanogan/Okanagan River, thanks to reintroductions and fish passage work earlier this century.
Hopefully they don’t get cooked in the river on the way upstream
I was there last week. Was the most salmon I have ever seen coming through at one time. They were stacked up behind the fish counter window because all of them couldn't fit through the small slot fast enough. Quite a few Chinook coming through then too.
Outstanding! I guided in Bristol bay for 20 years, there were a few days 250,000 sockeye came up the river. I can't begin to imagine the potential numbers the Columbia could produce. I'm certainly excited with the effort on the Columbia.That's cool to see it in person. I checked this out a week ago and the number of sockeye coming through then at once was crazy.
The incident occurred June 24 at Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine, the Yukon’s largest and newest gold mine. A landslide at the site’s heap leach pad, where the company uses cyanide to extract gold from ore, ripped through a containment barrier.
The failure released some 2,000,000 metric tons of material, including hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of cyanide solution, into the environment. About 10 days later, high levels of cyanide, which is toxic to fish, were detected in a creek downstream, though more recent samples showed safer levels, according to the Yukon government.
Wow that’s the first time I have seen that table with the marine mammals included.
Good to hear. Any kings?Firsthand report on the sockeye numbers in the Kenai River: unbelievable. Limits in under an hour if you just wanted whatever was on the end of your line. If you only wanted the largest bucks it could take a bit longer, but easily doable.
I wish. Heard of one being caught and released from the shore but that’s it. The status of those Kings is truly a heartbreaking deal.Good to hear. Any kings?
It’s almost as if midwater species that eat plankton are doing well and bottom-oriented species that eat bait and have high vulnerability as trawling bycatch are doing poorly.I wish. Heard of one being caught and released from the shore but that’s it. The status of those Kings is truly a heartbreaking deal.
It’s almost as if midwater species that eat plankton are doing well and bottom-oriented species that eat bait and have high vulnerability as trawling bycatch are doing poorly.
That article is pretty misleading. Yes there is an issue on the Okanogan, which could partially be solved by removing the Eolan dam, but it's also just the nature of the beast, the geograph (and geology) that created prime habitat for sockeye, these large inland lakes connected to low gradient rivers, is the same geography and geology that creates the hot water. I get pretty sick of crying wolf when the sockeye trend is so obviously heading in the right direction.This isn't great, but thought I would share on this thread. Sorry if there is a paywall. The headline pretty much covers it. A huge run of sockeye salmon waiting on the weather to enter spawning tributaries.
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Record sockeye salmon run on Columbia now threatened by hot water
Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may never make it their last miles home.www.spokesman.com