News Summary October 17, 2017 Today's Main Story: Fish Traps Were Banned, but Some Now Say ‘‘It’s the Future” for Columbia River Salmon Today's opening headline reports that more than eight decades after their demise, fish traps are getting a fresh look from researchers convinced they offer a more sustainable way to catch Columbia River salmon. These traps are formed by nets attached to pilings that gently guide the fish into a kind of underwater corral. Wild fish protected under the federal Endangered Species Act can be released to resume their upstream journey, while their more abundant hatchery brethren are sent to the processors. The Wild Fish Conservancy received permission to operate a two-year fish trap experiment funded largely by state and federal grants.
Read more about it here. In other news, Alaska commercial salmon fishermen across the state have had a “banner year,” according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) which released a preliminary harvest summary that estimates fishermen caught 224.6 million wild salmon this year and earned $678.8 million selling the fish to processors.
Learn more about this year's harvest here. In North Carolina, shrimp is the second largest ...
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News Summary October 17, 2017
Today's Main Story: Fish Traps Were Banned, but Some Now Say ‘‘It’s the Future” for Columbia River Salmon
Today's opening headline reports that more than eight decades after their demise, fish traps are getting a fresh look from researchers convinced they offer a more sustainable way to catch Columbia River salmon. These traps are formed by nets attached to pilings that gently guide the fish into a kind of underwater corral. Wild fish protected under the federal Endangered Species Act can be released to resume their upstream journey, while their more abundant hatchery brethren are sent to the processors. The Wild Fish Conservancy received permission to operate a two-year fish trap experiment funded largely by state and federal grants. Read more about it here.
In other news, Alaska commercial salmon fishermen across the state have had a “banner year,” according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) which released a preliminary harvest summary that estimates fishermen caught 224.6 million wild salmon this year and earned $678.8 million selling the fish to processors. Learn more about this year's harvest here.
In North Carolina, shrimp is the second largest ...
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