Garden and Gun just dropped a nifty fly piece about a run into the Everglades – read it (free) here.
A great reminder about why it’s worth the seemingly endless battle to restore normal flows to the Everglades.
Image via the linked article.
Jess has just had an article drop in the Australian Fly Life magazine covering her recent visit Down Under and chasing big fish in Tasmanian stillwaters; it’s subscription only (print and digital) – details here.
From a 9 Dec 2020 Wild Fish Conservancy PR –
December 9, 2020 — A publication released today in BioScience suggests that a return to historical Indigenous fishing practices and systems of salmon management may be key to revitalizing struggling Pacific Salmon fisheries across the North Pacific.
The article, titled Indigenous Systems of Management for Culturally and Ecologically Resilient Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) Fisheries, is authored by a collection of accomplished Indigenous leaders and fisheries scientists from the United States and Canada. Wild Fish Conservancy is proud to announce its own Adrian Tuohy serves as one of the paper’s co-authors.
In the paper, the authors document how Indigenous communities of the North Pacific sustainably harvested salmon for thousands of years by fishing in or near rivers with low-impact selective fishing tools like fish traps, weirs, wheels, reef nets, and dip nets. After the arrival of European settlers, traditional Indigenous fisheries and governance systems were suppressed, giving way to the mostly unsustainable mixed-stock commercial fishing practices of today that commonly occur in the ocean with non-selective tools such as gill nets.
“As they’re currently built, mixed-stock salmon fisheries are undermining the biodiversity needed for Pacific salmon to thrive,” says Dr. Atlas, lead author of the publication and Scientist with the Portland-based Wild Salmon Center. “Luckily, we have hundreds of examples, going back thousands of years, of better ways to fish. These techniques can deliver better results for all communities…”
The In the Loop team mistakenly sent out a link to their previous issue 26 last week; here’s their actual Issue 27 for your Monday reading pleasure…
The Utah Stream Access Coalition is holding their annual fundraising auction right now to keep up the good fight in Utah (with implications for access rights nation-wide). It closes on the 19th, so get on it today…
Unseasonably warm weather this past week, coupled with being stranded at home working on a training block for a new project, had me firing the grill more than I’d originally planned for the second week of December.
Our compadre Chef Libby in Austin mentioned in passing last week a tacos al pastor recipe she and her team had served at a recent event, topped with this Quick Grilled Pineapple Habanero Salsa, which I’ve posted this morning over on the Older Bolder Life.
Having never met a fruit salsa that we didn’t like, we’ve cobbled this simple recipe together a couple of times recently; my lovely wife and Libby like it best with jalapeños and cilantro for the herb component, though I prefer the fruity, hell-fire heat of the habaneros. Try it both ways and see what your clan prefers.
This would be a nifty addition to your next holiday turkey dinner….
Cheers.
The In the Loop team dropped Issue No. 27 during the night; read it here, and don’t miss the piece from Tarquin Millington-Drake on Iceland…
