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Salmon disappearance could bring fishing ban
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The stunning collapse of one of the West Coast's biggest wild salmon runs has prompted even cash-strapped fishermen to call for an unprecedented shutdown of salmon fishing off the coasts of California and Oregon.
"There's likely no fish, so what are you going to be fishing for?" asked Duncan MacLean, a fisherman from Half Moon Bay. "I have no problem sitting out to rebuild this resource if that's what's necessary."
The Pacific Fishery Management Council meets in Seattle this week and will likely vote to impose the most severe restrictions ever on West Coast salmon fishing to protect California's dwindling chinook stocks.
The Sacramento River chinook run is usually one of the most productive on the Pacific Coast, providing the bulk of the salmon caught by sport and commercial trollers off California and Oregon.
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Well, richard583 was way ahead on this one......I can't find his orginal post. There is a huge decline in the salmon population for sure.
They should take the warning labels off of everything and let stupidity sort itself out.
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West Coast Salmon Fishing Banned
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Wild salmon from the American West Coast are off the menu for now, as federal authorities have decided to prohibit salmon fishing for all of California and most of Oregon in order to aid recovery of the Chinook salmon populations. Salmon fishing in Alaska, where populations remain relatively stable, will not be affected. The ban will mean fewer fish and higher prices on restaurant menus.
For millennia, hundreds of thousands of Chinook salmon have returned to San Francisco Bay each year, heading for the Sacramento River Delta and its tributaries to spawn. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), whose National Marine Fisheries stewards the nation's living marine resources, five years ago some 872,700 salmon swam through the Delta.
This year, scientists estimate that fewer than 60,000 adult Chinook, far less than what is needed to sustain the population, will return. In addition, Coho salmon stocks off Washington and northern Oregon are also far below normal. The ban means that all commercial and recreational salmon fishing off the coast of California and southern Oregon will be suspended until populations recover.
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http://www.winespectator.com...Features/0,1197,4372,00.html
Well we saw this one coming. I meant to post this a few days ago and didn't have time.
This will effect a lot of people in the Northwest.
They should take the warning labels off of everything and let stupidity sort itself out.
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