Tag: fisheries
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Pacific Fishery Management Council considering closures to protect deep-sea habitats
MBARI’s ROV, Ventana being deployed at the proposed restoration and research site, Sur Ridge. (Brian Phan – Herald Correspondent) Deep-sea coral restoration and research sites are being proposed to protect deep-sea habitats from bottom fishing gear in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. “Throughout the world, we’ve been damaging deep-sea corals even before people really even…
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Tribes guard the Klamath River’s fish, water and lands as restoration begins at last
Photo: Doreen Ashley (left) and Gloria Mattz (right), fish technicians at the Yurok Fisheries Program, do all they can to help the fish of the Klamath River. Joel Angel Juarez/The Republic Queen Gensaw skylarked around and between her parents, Oscar and Georgianna, at the Yurok Tribe’s boat ramp at Requa, or Rek-woi, the “mouth of…
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AG ALERT: Farmers, tribes weigh in on river flows for salmon
Farmers, ranchers, tribal members and others who rely on water from the Scott River and Shasta River watersheds turned out last week to offer insights to state officials considering an emergency regulation to set minimum flows on the tributaries. The gathering at an informational workshop on Oct. 6 in Sacramento came in response to a…
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Russian-Eel River stakeholders effort to find path forward without defunct power plant
Newly formed Russian River Water Forum will consider alternatives without hydroelectric plant that shunted Eel River water into the Russian River. Photo: Water from the Eel River collects at Van Arsdale Reservoir and flows over Cape Horn Dam. A percentage of the water is redirected through a diversion tunnel to the Potter Valley Powerhouse and…
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California could have avoided salmon season shutdown. Did we learn nothing last time?
Photo: Fishing boats docked in Bodega Bay on Mar. 3, 2023. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters In summary The salmon population crash of 2008 felt like an anomaly in an otherwise productive fishery in California. Fifteen years later, the West Coast is right back where it started. Have we learned nothing in 15 years?…
