The broken promise of salmon hatcheries
Steamboater and North Umpqua Foundation board member Karl Konecny argues that it’s time to give up our addiction to hatcheries and focus on restoring Oregon’s …
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How Not to Count Salmon
Data reporter Irena Hwang thought counting fish to evaluate the hatchery system in the Pacific Northwest sounded like a fun project. That was before she …
Too Many Pinks in the Pacific
There are three times more pink salmon in the ocean than there were about 50 years ago. Nearly three out of every four salmon in …
NH hatcheries to get a boost; environmentalists say that’s a problem
With $55 million in federal relief funds, the state of New Hampshire is preparing to update its fish hatcheries and build two new facilities with …
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon
The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway. The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But …
Ocean Bound Factory Fish
I prefer my steelhead wild. Every year, Idaho Fish and Game raises almost 5 million steelhead in the Magic Valley Region for stocking into Salmon …
ODFW votes to end N. Umpqua summer steelhead hatchery release
Somewhere Frank Moore is smiling. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has decided not to release hatchery summer steelhead smolts into the North Umpqua River …
North Umpqua Summer Steelhead At Risk from Ongoing Hatchery Releases
The North Umpqua should be a wild steelhead gene bank. On January 31, 2022, the North Umpqua Coalition, consisting of The Conservation Angler, Native Fish …
Supplements to Pump Up Those Wimpy Hatchery Steelhead
Inspired by research at Oregon State University that suggests that it may be possible to change rearing methods to produce hatchery steelhead that are more …
This Just In From Planet Bullshit
How about this Einstein? Instead of trying to figure out a way to make hatchery fish more like wild fish convince wildlife managers to take …