Washington Governor Jay Inslee formed the Orca Task Force in early 2018 as it became clear that the Southern Resident Killer Whale pod of Orcas whose home waters includes marine areas from the Columbia River to the Fraser River in British Columbia are starving because their main food source, chinook salmon, have declined to levels … Continue reading Help Save Orcas! Urgent Action Needed
On October 9, 2018, The Conservation Angler and four other conservation groups sent notice to Idaho officials of our intent to file an ESA Take lawsuit to protect wild Snake River Steelhead. TCA along with Wild Fish Conservancy, Friends of the Clearwater, Snake River Waterkeeper and Idaho Rivers United sent notice to Idaho Governor Butch … Continue reading Wild Fish Conservation Organizations Intend to Sue Idaho for Unauthorized Steelhead Fishing
In what may be a precedent-setting action on August 24th, Oregon and Washington "closed the Columbia to steelhead fishing" (their words) as the initially optimistic 2018 forecast for upriver summer steelhead of 182,400 summer steelhead was revised sharply down to 110,300 fish (a 40% reduction in the forecast), reduced again on August 28 to 96,500 … Continue reading 2018 Columbia River Summer – Fall Migration Update: September 30, 2018
The family Salmonidae has a long history. It may go back 100 million years. Forty million years ago the earliest confirmed Salmonidae, a fish resembling a modern grayling, left its bones in lake sediments in British Columbia. Fifteen million years ago a six-foot stream-dwelling salmon with large curved breeding teeth known as the sabre tooth … Continue reading Wild Pacific Salmon: A Threatened Legacy
PERSPECTIVE Snake River Salmon and Steelhead Abundance The following links to graphs produced by Idaho Fish and Game track the run size of hatchery and wild salmon and steelhead passage above Lower Granit Dam, comparing it to recovery goal for these threatened species from the 1950s to 2017. The spring and summer chinook were protected through the … Continue reading 2018 Conservation and Science Report Five
On August 3, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission directed the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department (ODFW) to implementing protective angling regulations that provided a migratory sanctuary for wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River and in the lower mile of the Deschutes River. The Deschutes River plume creates a cold water refuge for … Continue reading Columbia River 2018 Wild Steelhead Migration Update
On August 3, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission directed the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department (ODFW) to implementing protective angling regulations that provided a migratory sanctuary for wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River and in the lower mile of the Deschutes River. The Deschutes River plume creates a cold water refuge for wild salmon and … Continue reading The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission Created Deschutes-Columbia River Cold Water Sanctuary Protecting Columbia River Salmon and Wild Steelhead
The Conservation Angler, a wild fish conservation organization, applauds the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission, and supports the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department (ODFW) in implementing protective angling regulations that will provide a migratory sanctuary for wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River and the very lower mile of the Deschutes River. The Deschutes River plume creates … Continue reading The Conservation Angler Supports Commission Action Creating Deschutes-Columbia River Cold Water Sanctuary Protecting Columbia River Salmon and Wild Steelhead
On August 3, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission directed the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department (ODFW) to implementing protective angling regulations that provided a migratory sanctuary for wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River and in the lower mile of the Deschutes River. The Deschutes River plume creates a cold water refuge for … Continue reading The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission Created Deschutes-Columbia River Cold Water Sanctuary Protecting Columbia River Salmon and Wild Steelhead
Washington's response to this problem is to increase chinook hatchery production in Puget Sound - exactly one of the major factors that has led to decline of Puget Sound chinook. The immediate solution is to reduce ocean and marine harvest of chinook in the commercial and sport fisheries. Read the full story from The Seattle Times. … Continue reading Struggling orcas heavily rely on urban chinook from Seattle-area rivers, new analysis shows
