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Groups celebrate stream restoration
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Government and nonprofit groups gathered on Prince of Wales Island recently to celebrate a pair of restoration projects. The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited and the U.S. Forest Service worked together on the Harris River and Fubar Creek. Both were damaged by logging in past decades. Randy [ READ MORE... ]
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Kenai Peninsula divided over halibut plan
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KENAI, Alaska - Kenai Peninsula commercial fishermen and sport anglers have often had disputes about who should have the right to catch salmon. These days, the focus is on another valuable fish, halibut. A dispute over a federal plan to protect the halibut population has pitted commercial fishing [ READ MORE... ]
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Bodega Bay radar used for salmon but detected tsunami
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A high-frequency radar station at Bodega Bay is part of a California coastal network that was able to detect the tsunami in March as it approached from Japan, the first such use of radar technology. Scientists said the radar network is not yet part of the West Coast tsunami warning system, but [ READ MORE... ]
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Elwha River hatchery to hurt recovery, critics say
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You might think Elwha River recovery is going to be a simple matter of taking two dams out of a largely pristine watershed, beginning next month, and letting nature take its course. But you would be wrong. The fish-restoration plan for the Elwha includes planting hatchery fish in the middle and [ READ MORE... ]
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Trout Fishing in a Climate-Changed America
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As difficult as it is to predict precisely how the planet will warm over the next century or so, it is even harder to refine predictions of how those changes will affect specific species. That’s because warmer temperatures alone are not the only driver of what happens to, say, four varieties of [ READ MORE... ]
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Idaho man catches cutthroat trout with an extra mouth
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crazy!! check this out! Read more: http://tdn.com/lifestyles/article_23d1df56-d4f5-11e0-8016-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1X8F7VFfN
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Complicated seabird problem at mouth of Columbia, Eating more fish after relocation
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It's been a dozen years since the federal government moved thousands of black-capped squawking seabirds here to reduce their diet of endangered fish. Things haven't exactly gone as planned. The hope in relocating the world's largest colony of Caspian terns to this sandy mound near the river's mouth [ READ MORE... ]
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Salmon In The River Thames: The Result Of Restoration Or Recolonization?
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There are some new fish in town, and researchers want to know where they came from. The fish are Atlantic salmon (Salmosalar L.), and the town is London—or, more accurately, weirs located in the River Thames at the boundaries of London. It’s hard to find salmon in the Thames these days, and it’s [ READ MORE... ]
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Protect Bristol Bay's Salmon From Toxic Mine Waste, Petition
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Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed supports the world's largest remaining wild salmon fishery. Year after year, the salmon return to Bristol Bay in astounding numbers, like no other place on earth. A massive gold and copper mine -- the Pebble Mine -- is proposed for development at the headwaters of [ READ MORE... ]
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