What do you do when you implement special “artificials-only, one-fish limit” regulations and they produce a 135% increase in trout populations?
If you’re the moronic easily influenced folks in charge of fisheries at the Prarie River in Wisconsin, your course is clear; you lift the regulations on a critical five-mile section of river (more than 30 […]

Via the Aquafornia blog:
To help prevent the spread of invasive mussels that can impact the fishery and damage water conveyance systems, all boats entering Crowley Lake this year will be thoroughly inspected, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) recently announced. Boats showing signs of contamination with invasive mussels, or found to contain […]

The McCloud Watershed Council held a community meeting over the proposed Nestle plant, and while the town’s still clearly divided over the project, even the proponents have got to be kicking themselves over the lopsided contract.
After all, Nestle’s getting the water for about 1/4000 the cost paid by a similar plant in Ohio, and you […]

It’s been too long since we visited with our good, good friends at multinational predator Nestle Corporation.

Then again, I doubt they’ve missed us much, being as they’ve been busy making all the "World’s Worst Corporation" lists (’#10 with a bullet), suing small towns in Maine into oblivion, trying to illegally obtain new water […]

The Milltown Dam breaching was followed live on the Internet via a Web cam.

With partial closure of the West Coast’s commercial and sport chinook salmon seasons already a fact and a full closure of the season not far behind, the media are sitting up and taking notice.
The economic impacts will surely be huge — big enough to garner attention from around the globe. I thought a quick roundup […]

Commercial and sport fishing seasons for salmon on the West Coast are being closed completely due to the dismal Sacramento chinook runs experienced during the fall of 2007.

Via the astute Aquafornia blog, we learn there may be some hope in the battle against Zebra/Quagga mussels (recently found in Western and California lakes):
In 2007, MOI was selected by the New York State Museum (NYSM) as the commercial partner for a microbial biopesticide that combats the invasive creatures [ed: Zebra and Quagga mussels].
The technology […]

From the Bangor Daily News:
A roughly 4-mile stretch of the Penobscot near Bangor will be open to catch-and-release Atlantic salmon fishing annually from May 1 to May 31 under new rules approved Thursday. This spring’s opening day will mark the first time springtime fishing for sea-run salmon has been allowed on any Maine rivers since […]

The news for the Sacramento River Chinook salmon fishery is grim. “How grim?” you ask?
This grim:
The grim reality of a collapsing salmon fishery will hit home over the next week as fishing interests, tribal representatives and conservation groups from three Western states hash out plans to protect the fish and, if possible, save their livelihoods.
“Could […]

Looks like Orvis has fallen for the matching funds restoration model, and who can blame them? (Joe Flyfisher (not his real name) donates $50; Orvis and Fish & Wildlife Fund each match that amount, so Joe’s impact on the project is tripled. Good, eh?)
It was a big hit when they exceeded their goals by raising […]

Ted Williams touches on an issue I’ve long wondered about; why are so many environmental groups blind to fish issues?
You’ll find support for fisheries popping up in extreme circumstances (salmon runs collapsing, etc), but by and large, fishermen and fisheries groups (like CalTrout and TU) are on their own, or living an uneasy partnership […]