I’d just finished another hallway conversation wherein I defended myself, the rest of you louts, and our beloved pastime. I was fumbling for the file to notch my “gunbutt” with another eco-radical kill, when I was brought up short…
It was innocent piece, really - but it cited a statistic that fascinated me:
Each year, more [...]

It sure looks like migratory fish are the new growth industry for the legal profession, another lawsuit filed here in California seeks the elimination of two aging dams on the Yuba River.
The Daguerre Point (1906) and Englebright (1941) dams just upstream of Marysville, they no longer produce power, water, or serve as a flood barrier [...]

Think again.
This isn’t one of those silly hijackers requiring you to dance around with a bottle of 409 hoping the neighbors don’t notice, this sure ain’t something you can point a finger at and bemoan it’s presence - no, this is something much better, with big sharp teeth that abducts terriers and small children.
“Frankenfish”, aka, [...]

Nothing brings the problem home more than surveying the debris field that is the high water mark. The Little Stinking has been a torrent over the last couple of weeks, and I amble out there periodically to keep tabs on it. Usually I have a garbage sack in tow, as each new high in [...]

I got my question answered and it wasn’t the screenwriter’s what done it, just a run-of-the-mill Legal type wrote the script. This time they might’ve driven a wedge in the farming community and garnered fishermen some unlikely allies, something they’ll soon regret.
The “Water Wars” continue unabated, and last weeks suit of the State of [...]

Nothing like clever lawyers and a wealthy client to add convoluted logic to an untenable position.
The large farm interests in southern California lost the last round of law suits and were forced to make do with less - less water pumped south to irrigate desert, and less to make the lush lawns of Los [...]

I can’t imagine any two words with worse repercussions, but “unprecedented collapse” would have to rank right up there. Statistics on the 2007 winter Chinook estimates this year’s run has dwindled to only 90,000 fish.
These are the fish returning to California and Oregon waterways, likely to curtail fishing in more ways than just slim [...]

Nothing like a rainy weekend to catch up on all those tasks held in abeyance. The lack of fish available since the creek was blown out in early January, reminded me of my need to learn more of the lifecycle of the common carp.
It’s a big mystery, one day the creek has them available, [...]

We keep hearing how the most dangerous occupation is Alaskan crab fisherman, I browse a lot of fishing news  and I’m starting to wonder about that statistic.
English trawlers have pulled in two WWII torpedoes recently, a third recovered in Australia, and yesterday the fourth was trawled up off of the Spanish coast. The “pucker [...]

New information released today suggest efforts to revive the delta fisheries have largely failed. The Sacramento Bee reports that this years trawl by the Department of Fish and Game, shows record low numbers of smelt, American Shad, and Sacramento Splittail, with two others, delta smelt and striped bass at near record lows.

The article suggests that [...]