Salmon Fishing USA

From Earthjustice: “A broad coalition of fishing, environmental groups and tribes filed papers in federal court today defending California’s native salmon. The groups oppose legal efforts by commercial water users and large agricultural interests to overturn federal protections for salmon and other species. On June 4, 2009, the National Marine Fisheries Service released an 800-page plan (biological [...]

I can't wait till Lou Dobbs gets hold of this story . Beth Sanderson, of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center here in Seattle, just released the results of a study into the effect of invasive species on native salmon. The results are not good. [Sanderson's team constructed an] explicit database that identified the presence of invasive species in roughly 1800-square-kilometer, hydrologically connected areas throughout Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. The number of invasive species in each are

Most of California's native salmon, steelhead and trout species face extinction this century without quick action to provide proper habitats. The SF Chronicle has reported 20 of 31 species of prized fish are in sharp decline, including the Sacramento River winter run of Chinook salmon, coastal Coho salmon and the Sierra Nevada golden trout.