The following documents, research papers and information links are provided to help educate all of us on what are the problems we have created that have gotten us to where we are today. Basically at the edge of the cliff, losing our valuable non-renewable resources. We all have to take personally responsibility for the current status of our Fishery. It is not their fault, it is our fault and we need to fix it. If you have any information you would like to add, send me a link with your comments and I will add it. Even if your position is in support of the current policies. Photo: Scott with a Springer that was attacked by a Sea Lion. Tide Water - Trask River.
American River Fish Kill 2002
http://www.fishsniffer.com/dbachere/040813amerfishkill.html
This is a well written article that discusses the fish loss in the American River that is a tributary of the Sacramento. In the Klamath fish kill of September 2002, when 68,000 salmon died because of low, warm water conditions on the lower river, is considered the largest of its kind in U.S. history. However, another "hidden fish kill" that took place on the American River in the fall of 2001, 2002 and 2003 is now vying for this dubious distinction. Healy blames the abnormally high pre-spawning mortality to lethally warm water conditions on the river. "When you get a large run that encounters warm water conditions, a large proportion of the fish will be wiped out," said Healy.
NOAA Says Collapse of Runs a Mystery
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041108C.shtml
PFMC Executive Director Don McIsaac and NOAA Fisheries claim the cause of the Central Valley salmon collapse is a "mystery." How do you say COVER YOUR A$$. These good old boys have allowed over harvesting, water diversions and raoing the forrest and they call it a Mystery? Ya gotta read this one!!!
Pacific Fishery Management Council
http://www.pcouncil.org/
Well I have heard of Bureaucracy but never really investigated them until now. The Pacific Fishery Management Council is one of eight regional fishery management councils established by the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 for the purpose of managing fisheries 3-200 miles offshore of the United States of America coastline. The Pacific Council is responsible for fisheries off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.
Gill Nets Kill
http://gillnetskill.blogspot.com/2008/02/open-letter-to-odfw-commissioners.html
Dear Commissioners, I testified at your Feb. 8 sport/commercial allocation hearing. I am the old guy who led off by saying his father was part of the successful movement to remove gill nets from Oregon waters in the first half of the last century. I also said I joined the Pacific Northwest Coastal Conservation Association out of frustration after years of writing to politicians and bureaucrats to get something done about the number of fish gill netters kill and waste on the Columbia.
