Salmon are back, but they're not taking the bait
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As saltwater game fishing continues to slow in northern waters, the most exciting development in years is the continuing Atlantic salmon season, the first one since 1999 in the last wild salmon waters in the northeast -- Maine's Penobscot River. In the seven years of the closed salmon fishery, the Atlantics have returned little by little to about 70 percent ...
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By Kevin Klott, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 16--RUSSIAN RIVER -- This Kenai Peninsula fishery is the honey hole for red salmon this weekend -- and by Monday it should be even sweeter.
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It's not a long season, there are plenty of restrictions and fishermen can't keep their catch.  But starting this morning, anglers will once more be angling for sea-run Atlantic salmon in Maine.
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By Wesley Loy, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 12--Seafood companies will be making fewer fish sticks and less imitation crab from Alaska catches next season due to a cut in the Bering Sea walleye pollock catch limit.
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Grotech Capital Group Inc.  is getting back into the fish business.
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All those recreational anglers who dangle bait off US coasts are catching a much bigger share of fish -- especially some threatened species -- than commonly thought, researchers report in a new study.
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By Deirdre Fleming Staff Writer  Fishermen out on the state's most treasured salmon and trout rivers this week may see a crew of fishermen from Japan - fishing for keepers, as well as great film footage.
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By Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 25--LOS BANOS -- A farm road runs through the shriveled San Joaquin River where chinook salmon are supposed to swim in seven years.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 15--STOCKTON -- Levees channeling water through the web-like Delta are nothing like the riverbanks of old, where salmon swam in the shade of native cottonwoods and tangled brush crowded the shores.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Dec. 17--In the waning hours of a lame-duck session, Congress rose to the occasion by adopting legislation that promises stronger protections for the nation's vulnerable fish stocks -- without capsizing the commercial fishing industries.
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Biologists, smarting from research showing that they may have been protecting the wrong fish for decades, are regrouping in their efforts to restore a rare type of trout to Colorado waters.
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By Mark Yuasa, Seattle Times  Feb. 15--The good times for saltwater salmon fishing continue in open areas of Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands.   The Roche Harbor Salmon Derby last Friday and Saturday generated some of the best catches the derby has seen in the past four years.
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By Eric Sharp, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 23--The other day, a fisheries scientist was marveling at how pink salmon, after being landlocked in the Great Lakes for only 50 years, have evolved to a three-year life cycle, while pinks in their original Pacific Ocean homeland live only two years.
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By Bob Lamb, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 14--Ice fishing has been put on hold due to warm temperatures and treacherous ice conditions. Ice fishermen were out in full force through last weekend, but the recent warming trend has eroded ice.
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A report into fish stocks in the seas around Europe is expected to say there has been a slight recovery.
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The tides of Atlantic salmon that flooded many European and North American rivers last year may signal efforts to restore the fish are working, activists say.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Maine's Atlantic Salmon Commission moved a step closer Thursday to reopening the Penobscot River to salmon anglers this spring.