Salmon

There’s an interesting salmon-focused piece up on BBC Travel covering the longstanding dispute over who actually controls the Dixon Entrance off the Alaskan coast; salmon fishers happen to be at the very core of the dispute today. Full details at the link, image via the BBC at the linked article.

Atlantic Salmon Reserve – Fly Fishing Russia from Fly Fishing Nation on Vimeo. The Atlantic Salmon Reserve (ASR) is the world’s first conservation area for Atlantic Salmon, Sea Trout, Wild Brown Trout and Arctic Char. The primary aim is to sustain and develop the fantastic Salmon and Trout fishing within this area, whilst preserving and […]

The full film from Patagonia; it’s an hour and change long, but a critical, eye-opening look at wild salmon. Of course it should be noted the film is not without meaningful and fact-based criticism – let’s hope the film sparks discussions that actually lead to durable, and effective, change.

Salmonology – Conservation of a Salmon River from BrothersOnTheFly on Vimeo.

Coldwater Connection from Wild Salmon Center on Vimeo.

SALMON FISHING || YOKANGA RUSSIA from Thomas & Thomas on Vimeo.

Kudos are due the Pacific Salmon Foundation (specifically their Salmon Watersheds Program) for pulling together the research to create their Pacific Salmon Explorer site. They’ve drilled down in an impressively granular fashion, looking at three key salmon producing regions in BC (the NASS, the Skeena, and the Central Coast) and built an interactive tool to […]

Once Salmon, Always Salmon from fiskebloggen.com on Vimeo. Teaser for an interesting kickstarter project.

Recognizing that it’s not necessarily in fashion to actually call attention to successes in the conservation arena (kinda hard to proclaim the sky is falling when something, anything, gets better), but kudos are due the Oregon managers, the team from the Native Fish Society, and other parties involved in beginning to turn the tide for […]

Yokanga Lodge – Kola Peninsula from The Fly Shop on Vimeo. Wow, does this look fun…

There’s been a flutter of attention lately in the fly fishing world about the Stand for Salmon Initiative which will be voted on this November in Alaska. In part, the current discussion was prompted in part by the sharing of this article (pic above) – Salmon Systems Are Out of Balance – in the Anchorage Daily […]