Tag: fish
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Wildlife competing with people for priority in plans for Colorado River’s future
Humpback Chub. (Photo: Arizona Game & Fish Department) LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Setting the course for a Colorado River with less water is an enormous challenge that’s not likely to satisfy everyone. And climate change has created a collision course with wildlife. The river isn’t just managed to accommodate people. Governments are also responsible for…
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Stormwater biofiltration increases coho salmon hatchling survival
A new study finds that the green stormwater practice bioretention filtration can help protect coho salmon hatchlings from the lethal toxicity of runoff exposure. A relatively simple, inexpensive method of filtering urban stormwater runoff dramatically boosted survival of newly hatched coho salmon in an experimental study, according to a press release from Washington State University (WSU). The…
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A tiny fish returns to Mississippi after vanishing 50 years ago
Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP The 2.5-inch-long Pearl Darter was listed by the federal government as a threatened species in 2017. Along a 400-mile river that runs from Mississippi into Louisiana, there are big hopes for a tiny fish. The Pearl Darter has once again returned to its name-sake waterway, Pearl River, not far from…
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Federal grants will replace water tunnels beneath roads that are harmful to fish
FILE – Melissa Erkel, a fish passage biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, looks at a culvert along the north fork of Newaukum Creek near Enumclaw, Wash., June 22, 2015. The Biden administration, on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, was announcing nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry…
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EPA accepts civil rights complaint by Tribes, environmental justice groups against State Water Board
Photo: The Run4Salmon prayer journey by the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, one of the complainants in the civil rights complaint against the State Water Resources Control Board, concluded on Aug. 5 with this closing ceremony at Muir Beach. Photo by Dan Bacher. Washington, D.C. — On August 8, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a decision accepting for investigation a…
