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Alaska's salmon catch hits record lows

Biologists are at a loss to explain why this summer's catch of Alaskan salmon was so low. The 1997 catch was roughly a third the size of the 1996 catch, the lowest catch in 19 years, causing an economic disaster for many fishing communities in the Bristol Bay area.

Alaska shuts down Bristol Bay fishing
Anchorage Daily News (Alaska)

The mystery of the missing fish
Anchorage Daily News (Alaska)

Alaska fishing starts to sink
ocregister.com (Orange County, Calif.)

Weak salmon runs devastate economy
Anchorage Daily News (Alaska)

Federal declaration clears way for aid to fishing villages
Anchorage Daily News (Alaska)

Resident warily consider rebuilding a salmon run
Anchorage Daily News (Alaska)




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Saving the salmon
Salmon
(Art Wolfe, 1991)
Wildlife officials in the Pacific Northwest have for years been struggling with a perplexing environmental dilemma: how to protect Pacific salmon. Plans to help protect the fish include the tearing down of dams that prevent salmon from reaching their inland spawning grounds in Idaho and Montana, and the reduction of salmon fishing on the Pacific Coast. Both plans would have serious economic repercussions in the region. By 1999, the National Marine Fisheries Service is required to put forth its final plan to protect salmon runs.


 From NewsWorks

Do endangered salmon equal endangered dams?
The Seattle Times Extra

Residents oppose plan to tear down dams to help fish
Virtually Northwest (Spokane, Wash.)

Poll: Salmon is Oregon's top environmental concern
Oregon Live (Portland, Ore.)

Governors oppose giving up water to save salmon
Oregon Live (Portland, Ore.)

Washington State official proposes bold recovery idea: Catch fewer fish
The Seattle Times Extra

Terry McDermott: An upstream battle
The Seattle Times Extra

Where does salmon protection money go?
The Seattle Times Extra

Fish ladder crisis hits consumers in the wallet
Virtually Northwest (Spokane, Wash.)

Campaign opposes barging salmon around dams
Virtually Northwest (Spokane, Wash.)

Salmon recovery backfiring, lawmakers told
Virtually Northwest (Spokane, Wash.)

Editorial: Saving the Columbia Salmon
The Seattle Times Extra

Editorial: The vagaries of salmon science
The Seattle Times Extra


 From the Web

Restoration: A Quarterly Newsletter
Oregon Sea Grant/ Oregon State University

Save Our Wild Salmon
SOS Coalition

Salmon and Steelhead Program
Idaho Rivers United

Salmon Facts
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife

Report on the state of wild fish in Oregon
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife