WASHINGTON ADOPTS NEW MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR WILD STEELHEAD
A new steelhead management plan designed to protect and rebuild wild stocks throughout the state won approval by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission at a public meeting in Olympia March 8.
View ArticleIDAHO HOPING FOR EXPANDED SALMON FISHING THIS YEAR
It is still too early to set salmon seasons, but Idaho's Fish and Game Commission anticipates opening some stretches of river that haven't seen a salmon season in 30 years if the forecast return of...
View ArticleRESEARCHERS SAY UNEXPECTED NUTRIENT FOUND KEY TO OCEAN FUNCTION
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered what could be a new, limiting nutrient in the world's oceans.
View ArticleFORECAST SHOWS 2008 BASIN RUNOFF NEARLY ASSURED OF BEING NORMAL OR HIGHER
There were a few drier-than-average areas in February, but precipitation fell where it counts most to assure, or nearly so, that the Columbia/Snake river basin will be provided a normal water supply...
View ArticleNOAA ACCEPTS PETITION FOR LISTING COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN SMELT
The NOAA Fisheries Service announced this week that it is formally accepting a petition from the Cowlitz Indian Tribe to list eulachon (smelt) populations in Washington, Oregon and California for...
View ArticleCOUNCIL WORKS ON NEW PROCESS TO SELECT F&W PROJECTS FOR BPA FUNDING
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council could as soon as next month trigger a new, multi-phased fish and wildlife project selection process that would stretch into the winter of 2011.
View ArticleSTATES GET SET FOR SEA LION TRAPPING; ZOOS, AQUARIUMS SHOW INTEREST
The trapping of California sea lions below Bonneville Dam is set to begin in the coming weeks with some of the animals, potentially, lethally removed and others finding their way to zoos and aquariums.
View ArticleCBB SHORTS:
CBB SHORTS: Marine Reserve Comments; Steelhead on Umatilla; Okanogan Steelhead Closure; Proposed Rockfish Listings; Stellar Sea Lion Protection in Alaska
View ArticleUSFWS PACIFIC REGION STATES GET $12.3 MILLION IN ESA GRANTS
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne this week announced more than $57.9 million in grants to 23 states and one territory -- including $12.3 million to states in the Pacific Region -- to support...
View ArticleIDAHO FISH AND GAME NAMES NEW FISHERIES CHIEF
Ed Schriever of Lewiston, who has worked for Idaho Fish and Game for more than 24 years, all of it in fisheries -- some in hatcheries and most in management -- has been named IDFG'S new fisheries chief.
View ArticleSCIENCE PANEL REVIEWS BIOP DOCUMENTS UNDERPINNING RECOVERY PLANNING
Three technical documents that underpin NOAA Fisheries' developing Columbia/Snake river hydro system BiOp and recovery planning are scientifically sound, for the most part, but in need of some shoring...
View ArticleGREGOIRE SIGNS LAKE ROOSEVELT WATER DELIVERY LEGISLATION
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation this week that will release the largest delivery of new water to towns and farms in the Columbia Basin, and for endangered salmon, in three decades.
View ArticleNEW SURFACE PASSAGE SPILLWAY WEIRS TO BE TESTED AT JOHN DAY DAM
The ongoing effort to explore the benefits of surface passage for juvenile fish at federal dams takes two steps forward this spring with the operation of new "spillway weirs" at both John Day Dam on...
View ArticleTESTS SHOW HIGH LEVELS OF PCB IN BASS NEAR BONNEVILLE DAM
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this week announced the results of tests that show high concentrations of contamination in smallmouth bass in the...
View ArticleCORMORANTS NOW CHAMPION CONSUMERS OF COLUMBIA JUVENILE SALMONIDS
Caspian terns winging their way to the Columbia River estuary will find their prized nesting habitat downsized this year by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in an attempt to encourage some of the...
View ArticlePFMC MEETING TO SET FISHERIES; SEEKS TASK FORCE ON CAUSES FOR DECLINE
The Pacific Fishery Management Council will decide during its April 7-12 meeting in Seattle how it wants West Coast salmon fisheries managed this year off the Oregon, Washington and California coasts.
View ArticleLOW WEST COAST SALMON RETURNS; WHY THE VARIATIONS?
Anticipated record low returns of chinook salmon to the Sacramento and Klamath rivers, and expected low Oregon coastal coho and chinook and Columbia River coho returns, will likely leave California and...
View ArticleTRIBES, COUNCIL LAUD SEA LION DECISION; HUMANE SOCIETY MULLS OPTIONS
Fish advocates say a plan to lethally remove California sea lions from base of the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam is a reasoned approach for reducing the predatory marine mammals' impacts on returning...
View ArticleFEDS APPROVE PLAN TO REMOVE UP TO 85 SEA LIONS IN COLUMBIA RIVER
With federal approvals in hand, the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho are scurrying to complete details of a plan to pluck California sea lions from their Columbia River salmon gravy train as...
View ArticleODESSA SUBAREA REPORT RELEASED; INCLUDES COLUMBIA DIVERSION OPTION
The Bureau of Reclamation has announced the availability of the Odessa Subarea Special Study, which investigates replacing current groundwater use in the Odessa Ground Water Management Subarea with...
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