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Copper River Salmon

The annual airlift of Copper River Salmon to a Whole Paycheck location near you has begun! Via: BWTF LINK

CNN Headline T-shirts

CNN is selling t-shirts with their headlines on them.  LINK to this shirt.

 

LINK to the store.

UPDATE: The headlines can be manipulated.

   

What's next, teaching them to coat themselves in batter and hop inside a fryer?

Call them Pavlov's fish: Scientists are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by swimming into a net when they hear a tone that signals feeding time.

If it works, the system could eventually allow black sea bass to be released into the open ocean, where they would grow to market size, then swim into an underwater cage to be harvested when they hear the signal.  LINK

Holy Sid Fishous!

Snakeheads invading the UK?  Via: Swim at Your Own Risk LINK

A river sacrificed - In Washington, helping one fish has meant harming another

Forced by a federal court decision to develop a way to manage water that would help Yakima River spring chinook recover, fish biologists invented the system called "flip-flop," which alternates flows in the Yakima and Naches rivers to serve both farming and fish. And for a while, it seemed to work: Farmers got their water in the key late-summer and early-fall dry periods, and the spring chinook rebounded, albeit modestly.

Unfortunately the strategy had a negative impact on native steelhead and new research suggests the flip-flop may also take an unexpected toll on the Yakima spring chinook, the very fish it was designed to protect. 

Via: High Country News  LINK

Drink Like a Fish

Filled up with sake, the carp at first turned belly-up on the surface of the water. But they soon recovered and swam off.

Via: Mainichi Daily News LINK

4-Year-Old Snags Whopper With Barbie Fishing Pole

Four-year-old Phoebe Swann reeled in a 40-inch, 50-pound fish, but what’s even better is she used her tiny pink Barbie fishing rod and a red plastic worm to snag it.

With a little help from her dad, after half an hour of reeling, she finally got the giant fish out of the water.

Via: Swim at Your Own Risk LINK

The Great Escape

                         
Trout leap to freedom in incredible escape from pond through eight-inch pipe. Andy Dufrense unavailable for comment.

Via: The Daily Mail LINK

Update on Delta Fish Stranding - It's Not Good

State and federal officials on Monday said they were investigating the death of thousands of game fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta after a federal agency drained the water around a protected island during a levee repair.

Masses of fish could be seen floating in shallow water on Prospect Island, a 1,253-acre plot next to Sacramento's Deep Water Ship Channel that is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.  LINK

The video - VIA: CBS 13 LINK

Bureau of Reclamation Strands Thousands of Fish on Delta Island

Striped bass make up the vast majority of the fish stranded on the island but endangered and threatened species including Delta smelt, salmon and steelhead will also perish unless a fish rescue is conducted.  LINK

Call the following numbers and urge the federal and state governments to do something about saving the fish:

Bureau of Reclamation, Public Affairs Office, 916-978-5100

Richard B. Rogers, California Fish and Game Commission, 916-653-4899

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 916-445-2841   

Siamese Pike

I would way rather see a shark swimming next to me than one of these conjoined fish.  VIA Backcountry.com (and Chum Chugger - Josh Tarr) LINK

Chum Being Sued!

"Nobody's going to be happy," he said. "We recognize that there's this niche marketing, but we want to have the best economic outcome for the industry as a whole." via Seattle PI LINK

Fish billionaire in plea to save wild salmon

 

The largest shareholder of Marine Harvest, the world's largest seafood company, says their fish farms are responsible for the decline of wild salmon and trout populations. LINK

Marine Harvest Canada operates 49 marine "tenures" in the waters off Vancouver Island and the mainland. LINK

Better LEDs From Salmon Sperm

An expert in light-emitting diode technology has discovered you can enhance LEDs by using biological membranes to slow down electrons, getting them to emit more photons. According to the expert, salmon sperm, a waste product of the fishing industry, is the cheapest source of LED enhancing DNA. LINK Via: Backcountry The Goat

Don't Go Noodling for Catfish in the Guangdong Reservoir!

It's a 3 meter long man-eating catfish whose head alone is 1 meter wide! After cutting up the catfish people were surprised to find the remains of a man inside!  LINK

Asian Catfish Migrates Hundreds of Miles, Rivals Salmon

Despite their reputation as pond-dwelling scum suckers, some catfish may be as well traveled as salmon.

Via: National Geographic News  LINK

Some Posts Just Write Themselves

                                       Greeback Cutthroat

                                Coorado Rivewr Cutthroat


A 20-year government effort to restore the population of an endangered native trout in Colorado has made little progress because biologists have been stocking some of the waterways with the wrong fish, a new study says.  LINk

It's raining trout in Colorado

The state Division of Wildlife is stocking hundreds of lakes with 325,000 fingerling trout dropped from modified Cessna 185 airplanes. Via: 9 Mews  LINK

Salmon making your lips numb?

Unscrupulous vendors in Thailand have been selling meat of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years, a doctor said Thursday. Via: MSNBC LINK

Fish Flying

Using a helicopter, more than 300,000 rainbow, cutthroat and brook trout were air-dropped into more than 450 lakes in the Cascade Range.  Via:The Statesman Journal LINK

Otters free trout from fish farm

Otters released tens of thousands of fingerling trout from a Scottish fish farm, upsetting fishery officials who fear the fugitives threaten wild salmon.  LINK

Record setting temps in New Brunswick are killing salmon in the Miramichi

Salmon in New Brunswick's Miramichi River were floating instead of jumping this week, leaving fishermen concerned over salmon stocks.  Via CBC News  LINK

The sewage first drained into Hershey Run, a tributary of White Clay Creek, Miller said

 

LINK

Florida Photo Opp Fines

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is going to crack down on the handling of fish on the states prohibited list as well as fish that are caught out of season or have no justification for being brought aboard for a measurement.

"Identifiable individuals who have posted pictures of inappropriately handled Goliaths on various Web forums and Web pages may be contacted by law enforcement officers and investigators to educate them on the agency's conservation philosophy," the memo reads. "Officers will pursue criminal prosecution in egregious cases following an education period."

Via: TC Palm LINK

Catch-Release Angling Injures Fish

A new study has determined what a lot of us already know, catch and release can be fatal if the fish is not handled with care.

Catch and release fishing seems like a win win-situation, with recreational anglers experiencing the thrill of a catch, while their prey can, in theory, swim safely away. But that's not always the case, according to a new study that found fish, including sharks, may suffer so much trauma during the event that they could die shortly thereafter.

Although the findings apply to sharks and other fish, Danylchuk and her team focused on bonefish, a tropical fish whose wariness and speed make it a sought-after target among recreational anglers.

Their recommendations

Broadhurst and Danylchuk also recommend that catch and release fishermen should minimize air exposure, use landing nets without knotted mesh, use barbless hooks to help expedite hook removal, and avoid sunscreen and bug repellent on hands, since Danylchuk said, "these can affect the slime coating on fish."

Trophy fish photos are still possible, she said, but fishermen must take care.

"Make sure to get your shot all set up before taking the fish out of the water," she advised. "When you do take the fish out of the water, try holding your breath. When you need to breathe, the fish probably does too and it's time to put it back in the water."

Thanks to Josh for the tip. Via: Discovery News LINK

 

Somtimes Farmed Fish is Preferable to the Wild Variety

Baghdad restaurateurs have been reassuring their customers that their fish are from farms rather than the Tigris.
Via: World Blog MSNBC  LINK

Heading to Yellowstone?

A heat wave has warmed the Firehole River to as much as 82 degrees, killing hundreds of rainbow and brown trout.

Meanwhile, park officials enacted voluntary fishing closures at several areas because of the stress that warm water places on fish.  Via: Desert News  LINK

Fish get bill of rights

Right to arm bears still on hold. Via: Times Online   LINK

Fishing Pressure Subsiding?

A five-year survey of outdoor recreation finds a sharp drop in the number of Americans who cast a rod and reel—and a lesser decline in hunting. But that doesn’t mean we’re spending less time with animals in nature. VIA NEWSWEEK LINK

"Popular whale shark dies mysteriously"

So they put the largest member of the shark family (which eats more plankton a year than volume of water this fishbowl holds) in a fish tank, and they're scratching their heads in confusion?  LINK

Record Colorado Lake Trout