Via the Wild Steelhead Coalition – After years of work, research and negotiation, the Puget Sound Steelhead Advisory Group (PSSAG) has released their anticipated report “Quicksilver: Restoring Puget Sound Steelhead & Fisheries.” This portfolio of recommendations is intended to chart a new path forward for monitoring and recovering the steelhead rivers of Puget Sound. WSC […]
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Yet another narrative detailing the stunning collapse of PNW steelhead in Washington state despite the decades of hand-wringing, hatchery hijinks, and endless studies conducted by the enlightened leadership in the region. Read the piece in the Steelheader’s Journal by Wild Steelhead Coalition board members Rich Simms and Greg Fitz.
A nifty piece on the Elwha that TU dropped on Friday; from the posting on youtube – Less than six years ago, the second of two dams on the Elwha River, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, was taken out to provide access for fish to the upper river located in the Olympic National Park. Since then, […]
#SAVETHESEASON STEELHEAD STOKE FILM FOR A CAUSE! from Waist Deep Media on Vimeo.
A nice short read on shooting heads for winter steelhead from EWA in Seattle.
Another couple of cautionary tales from a state who stakes claim to ostensibly some of the best and brightest in business, management of natural resources, community development and management, and woke progressivism. The Chehalis Closed to all Fishing on the 16th Due to Low Steelhead Returns Read the full closure notice here; yet more evidence […]
The good folks at Emerald Water Anglers have a short and to the point piece up on their blog talking about high water steelhead on the OP. Image per the linked article.
Join those at Our Sound, Our Salmon as they call for enhanced scrutiny of Cooke Aquaculture’s planned conversion of their net pen operation to raise genetically altered steelhead in Puget Sound. Cooke’s salmon operation was a critically bad idea in the first place, their proposed dalliance with genetically modified steelhead in the Sound even more […]
There’s an interesting read over on the Wild Steelhead Coalition blog – The Clearwater Closure: A New Direction is Needed for Snake River Steelhead – posted a few weeks back. Wether you agree or disagree with all the tenets of their argument, what’s painfully clear is that management of steelhead in the PNW (Idaho of […]
Desert Steel from Tellis Katsogiannos on Vimeo.
The state of Washington has published a simple online survey to help gauge the public’s thoughts regarding possible breach of the four principle Snake River Dams as the Columbia River Systems Operations EIS is being crafted by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the BPA. Throw your two cents in […]
