Trapping Pink Salmon in Norway
Custom-built weirs for capture and removal of invasive hatchery pink salmon out of two rivers in Norway.
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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 …
Southeast Alaska commercial salmon harvest 4 times higher than last year
While salmon runs struggle throughout a large portion of their range, not the case in the great state of Alaska. Science is beginning to show …
40,000 pink salmon invade the Tana river
Enormous numbers of invasive pink salmon have spawned in the Norwegian Tana river system. The Tana is regarded as one of the most important spawning …
An out-of-place fish showed up at Lower Granite Dam.
Not so pretty in pink. A pink salmon was captured in the Lower Granite Dam fish trap. It’s one of only a handful of pinks …
70,000 Pink Salmon Caught In Norwegian Rivers
Hatchery pinks are a threat to fragile wild Atlantic populations. The Norwegian Environment Agency has launched a major offensive to get rid of the invasive …
Inland Fisheries Ireland Issues Pacific Pink Salmon Alert
Russian hatchery pinks are showing up in Irish rivers. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), the state agency responsible for the protection and conservation of freshwater fish …
Not So Pretty In Pink
A detailed analysis by Craig Medred of the increasing body of evidence that the massive influx of hatchery pink salmon is crowding out wild salmon …
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in the size of four …
Not So Pretty In Pink
Researchers say voracious pink salmon are thriving at other species expense. Pink salmon are wildly abundant in odd-number years and less abundant in even-number years. They comprise …