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Wildlife officials haze, kill sea lions feasting on endangered salmon in ...
Los Angeles Times
The sea lions represent a massive headache each year as chinook salmon begin arriving at the Bonneville Dam east of Portland, congregating in large numbers ...

Sport fishing should not be regulated
Juneau Empire
Those subsisting for sockeye salmon in Taku River only get the crumbs left over after the fish pass by the commercial fleet. About 1525000 sockeye were ...

National Parks Traveler (blog)
Yellowstone, Cutthroats and Me: A Fishing Guide's Autobiography
National Parks Traveler (blog)
Dick now believes that these two were the “bucket biologists” who transferred lake trout from Lewis Lake in the park to Yellowstone Lake, setting off what ...

In brief for Washington on March 5, 2010
Capital Press (subscription)
... Service announced last week it again is withdrawing its proposal to list as threatened the Southwest Washington-Columbia River coastal cutthroat trout. ...

Conservation group challenges PG&E, seeks more water for Eel River
Times-Standard
But NMFS has also concluded that flows in the much smaller Russian River, boosted by water from the Eel, are too high to support salmon and steelhead there. ...
In brief for California on March 5, 2010Capital Press (subscription)

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Wine grapes and salmon at odds
Daily Democrat
But now that growth has run up against federal protections for coho salmon, an endangered species that once filled the streams and rivers along California's ...

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Modesto Bee
Salmon season to undergo scrutiny
Contra Costa Times
There is hope for a decent salmon season after several years of crushing closures driven by troubling returns of spawning chinook salmon to the Sacramento ...
Quickest way to save salmon: Limit their predatorsModesto Bee

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Trout plants stopped for many area lakes
San Bernardino Sun
Native steelhead rainbow trout became a major issue for planted waters in Southern California. The critically endangered fish is nearly extinct throughout ...

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Feds fault fish plan
Appeal-Democrat
Additionally, some parts of the plan would negatively affect the fall-run Chinook salmon, a fish also considered threatened, according to the Fisheries ...

Loss of Bull Trout Warning For Idaho River Wildlife
Fox12Idaho
Those are strong words, but the issue is clear -- the loss of bull trout is a problem. How to save the fish isn't as clear. Activists gathered in front of ...
Groups to rally for bull trout protectionsSeattle Times

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OregonLive.com
New report cautiously optimistic on Sacramento River salmon
Sacramento Bee
A report released Wednesday suggests better times may be ahead for the Sacramento River's fall-run chinook salmon. ...
Salmon numbers dive lowerChico News & Review
Feds project better salmon returns for 2010The Register-Guard

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As river rises, so does momentum for settlement to remove four Klamath dams
Times-Standard
This creates the slack-water environment along the edges where coho salmon thrive when they are young. But will there be any coho salmon by 2020, ...
Deal proposes Klamath River dams' removalOregon Daily Emerald
Landmark Klamath River restoration and dam removal agreements signedIndian Country Today

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KATU
Salmon numbers dive lower
Chico News & Review
Numbers of fall chinook salmon adults returning to the Sacramento River are lower than scientists originally thought. Data released recently by the Pacific ...
Fall run of Chinook salmon looks promising, report showsFresno Bee
Outdoors blog (updated 2/25)The Columbian
Correction: Disappearing SalmonSan Luis Obispo Tribune
Seattle Times
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Oregon Klamath Basin deal a boon for farmers, fish
The Durango Herald
The next year, the Bush administration restored water to the farms, but with the river low and warm, tens of thousands of chinook salmon died of disease ...
As river rises, so does momentum for settlement to remove four Klamath damsTimes-Standard

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Deal proposes Klamath River dams' removal
Oregon Daily Emerald
This prevents the fish from swimming upstream to spawn and has endangered several species, including Coho salmon. Though the plan's proponents are excited ...

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Endless cycle of Fraser salmon inquiries
Victoria Times Colonist
... ColonistFebruary 24, 2010 Justice Bruce Cohen is all lawyered up and ready to embark on his quest for millions of missing Fraser River sockeye salmon. ...

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Water plan may harm cities, fish
Contra Costa Times
The most valuable of those fish are fall-run chinook salmon, until recently the backbone of the state's commercial salmon fishery. ...

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Smith/Vandermeer: Mich., don't over-react about carp in the lakes
Lansing State Journal
This ecosystem is now dominated by introduced species such as sea lamprey, alewife, brown trout, steelhead, coho, Chinook, and pink salmon, and round goby, ...

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$7.5 million to replace useless fish ladder in Santa Paula Creek
Ventura County Star
Just 10 years ago, millions were spent to build this fish ladder along Santa Paula Creek so steelhead could get up the river. ...

Olympic Park hopes to expand
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Maynes said last week that the purchase would increase protection of sockeye salmon habitat at Umbrella Creek. The park is hearing public comment on the ...

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