Salmon Fishing USA

From redding.com, website of the Record Searchlight: “Fall’s chinook salmon run on Battle Creek could produce even fewer fish than the dismal returns that last year blocked commercial salmon fishing. As of Oct. 12, federal scientists had counted about 5,800 salmon caught on video by cameras submerged in the creek, said Jim Smith, project leader at the [...]

During a biologist survey, a Department of Fish and Game employee found a 51 inch Chinook Salmon on Battle Creek in California.

A fifty-one inch long Chinook salmon, found dead during a salmon survey in Battle Creek, California, is probably a record for the state of California say Department biologists. A picture shows Fisheries biologist Doug Killam holding the massive fish.

What has happened to all of our Chinook salmon? The beast pictured above looks as though he may have swallowed them all.But seriously, the recent discovery of this dead fish in Battle Creek in Tehama County was significant enough for the Department of Fish and Game to issue a news release Wednesday afternoon, describing it as

So far only about 12,000 fall-run Chinook salmon have swum from the Sacramento River up Battle Creek - on which Coleman National Fish Hatchery sits near Anderson - said Jim Smith, a project leader for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Red Bluff.