In the News...
The "In the News" section covers recent news on conservation related matters as well as significant other announcements related to the fly fishing world.
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May 3, 2021
California Trout
It takes a long time to remove four large dams from a river. To simplify more than 20 years of effort risks glossing over fish kills, cultural injustices to tribal nations, water shut offs, lawsuits, hours spent in windowless hotel conference rooms, stacks of reports and data and corporate indifference...
But in November 2020, the moment arrived when PacifiCorp (and its owner Berkshire Hathaway) agreed to the full terms of dam removal on the Klamath River—the largest dam removal project in United States history.
May 3, 2021
San Francisco Chronicle/Kurtis Alexander
Millions of young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the Central Valley will be trucked to San Francisco Bay and other coastal sites for release, because the rivers they’d normally travel to get to the ocean are drying up, state and federal officials said Wednesday.
The ambitious trucking program, a response to the state’s escalating drought, is intended to maximize survival of the hatchery fish that prop up California’s fall-run of chinook — the mainstay of the state’s commercial and recreational salmon industries.
May 3, 2021
The Seattle Times/By Kim Chipman
Bloomberg
At OBI Seafoods, a sprawling operation with outposts throughout Alaska, there’s all sorts of extra machinery for workers to master. At Whole Foods Market, there are new guidelines for purchasing salmon from wholesalers. And at Ivar’s, a fixture on Seattle’s waterfront for eight decades, the chef is sending back skimpy salmon delivered to his kitchen.
May 3, 2021
National Fish Habitat Partnership
On Monday, April 26, 2021 the National Fish Habitat Board approved the following conservation priorities for fiscal year (FY) 2022, during the April meeting of the Board.
Conservation Priorities for FY22
1) Protect intact healthy waters
2) Restore hydrologic conditions for fish
3) Reconnect fragmented fish habitats
4) Restore water quality
5) Coordination and operational support for FHPs to make on-the-ground progress within program appropriations