Some mistakes you don't get to "do-over." Wiping out a unique fish, the Menhaden, the keystone species of America's Atlantic and Gulf fisheries, amounts to ecocide. Listen to the podcast here
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The contest is open to all public, private and home school students in the United States in grades K-12. Grade categories: K—4, 5—8 and 9—12. Via ilovesalmon.org LINK
How many times a year can you paddle a river and do good for the world at the same time? Where else can you treasure hunt for discarded lawn chairs and end up with keys to a BMW, or that mis-matched pair of flip-flops you’ve always wanted? And how many times can you remember sitting in an eddy when a scuba diver pops up next to you clutching a garbage bag plump with aluminum cans with a smile on his face?
We can’t think of too many experiences in life quite like this one… CLACKAMAS RIVER CLEAN UP
If you've not seen it yet, do so. In HD, the Discovery Chanel's Series: Planet Earth is the next best socially acceptable thing to a Peter North montage. I've had HD for two years now and can't believe I've waited this long before watching this series. On Sunday, April 8th, Discovery will unveil its Shallow Seas episode. Set your Tivo. You won't be disappointed.
I guess I'll take it black next time. Via Seattle PI LINK
...join forces to protect the Bristol Bay watershed from industrial mineral development. VIA Flyfish.com LINK
This from the same administration that brought you the Clear Skies and Healthy Forest initiatives.
Citing new safety assurances, the Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its objections to a plan to treat and dispose of chemical weapon wastewater at a DuPont Co. plant along the Delaware River
Via CNN LINK
Greenpeace activists will shift their focus to protest against pirate
fishing off Africa's west coast following two months battling Japanese
whalers, the group said on Wednesday. LINK
This is your fish on drugs
Our pharmaceutical drugs are turning up in the environment and in animals.
VIA Discover LINK
Big news here in the Pacific NW.
The outcry from anglers regarding the blatant over fishing by the Makah tribe and how WDOFW allowed it to happen has gotten the attention of some of the state's politicians.
The Makah are also the tribe pushing for annual whaling permits and who were in the news back in 1999 for hunting a Grey Whale.
The ancestral heritage argument for whaling and fishing rights pale in the ancestral glow of casinos, firework stands and tax free smoke shops.
One of our goals is to highlight the assault on endangered fish populations and their habitat. We will also highlight the network of groups that do the heavy lifting when it comes to preserving that habitat and those vulnerable fish. If you're a fisherman and your level of environmental activism ends at your TU membership card you should dedicate some fishing time getting involved in preserving what remains of endangered fisheries.
San Francisco - Legal fights over water in the West are as common as summer rains are rare. But a flurry of cases in California is attracting intense attention from scholars and state officials who see them as an extraordinary assault by agricultural interests on protections for endangered fish and other wildlife.
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