Coho Salmon

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The return of the coho salmon was encouraging news for fisheries experts and watershed managers. "It shows that these fish can survive for months without spawning, while waiting for the rains to come," Eric Ettlinger, aquatic ecologist for the Marin ...

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Calif. salmon return is encouraging
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The return of the coho salmon was encouraging news for fisheries experts and watershed managers. "It shows that these fish can survive for months without spawning, while waiting for the rains to come," Eric Ettlinger, aquatic ecologist for the Marin ...

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Celebrated Marin County salmon make their return
San Francisco Chronicle
Biologists have observed 377 coho salmon in the Lagunitas watershed this winter and 103 redds, the word used by brainy types in smocks to refer to the clusters of pink eggs that salmon lay in the gravel. It is a remarkable showing, Ettlinger said, ...
Promising winter run of Marin coho brings cautious optimism about recoveryMarin Independent-Journal

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Promising winter run of Marin coho brings cautious optimism about recovery
Marin Independent-Journal
"The fish are all around," Ettlinger said of numerous steelhead trout and a few coho salmon and their fish eggs. After years of low numbers of endangered coho salmon in Marin creeks, Ettlinger observed a small but resurgent number of those fish and ...

Tony Floor's Tackle Box filled with winter chinook and then some
The Seattle Times
First, they have embraced recreational salmon fishing as a priority policy, relative to the wise economic use of harvestable chinook and coho salmon. Most interpret this Canadian policy to mean that the chinook and coho are managed first, for the sport ...

So who's the biggest sucker?
Sonoma Index-Tribune
The DFG recently released adult coho salmon in Salmon Creek to reestablish a coho salmon population. This is the fourth consecutive year adult salmon were released. This year 200 adults were released on two separate occasions in late December 2011 and ...

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Eastern Shore salmon farm proposal morally indefensible
TheChronicleHerald.ca
In British Columbia, a clear connection has been made between salmon farms, sea lice, and declining runs of pink and coho salmon in those rivers where farms have been sited. Sea lice are becoming resistant to available insecticides and the industry is ...

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Conservationists concerned over coho recovery plan; fisheries service ...
Times-Standard
She said the agency is required to create the plan, a set of guidelines for the recovery of coho salmon in Southern Oregon and Northern California, but the implementation is voluntary. The coho salmon was listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1997 ...

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Fisheries restoration grant application period opening soon
Lake County News
Funded projects will be consistent with DFG's Steelhead Restoration and Management Plan for California, DFG's Recovery Strategy for California Coho Salmon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Southern California Steelhead ...

Conservancy purchases 10 acres of salmon habitat
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
Big Beef Creek is one of twenty streams that are intensively monitored by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in a long-term study of coho salmon. The creek's pools provide habitat for coho fingerlings, which spend a year in freshwater before ...

REGIONAL: Fish and Game releases adult coho salmon into Sonoma County Creek
Lake County News
The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) recently released adult coho salmon in Salmon Creek, Sonoma County to reestablish a coho salmon population. This is the fourth consecutive year adult salmon were released, the agency reported.
Conservancy purchases 10 acres of salmon habitatKitsap Peninsula Business Journal

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County tackles coho recovery
Siskiyou Daily News
Siskiyou County has promoted supplementing coho salmon in recent years using the “eyed-egg injection” method. This technique involves procuring partially developed salmon eggs and injecting them into gravel in the streambeds, where they can continue to ...

Martin Slough enhancement project moves forward; salmon on Eureka golf course ...
Times-Standard
Allan said agencies first began discussing the a two-phase fish passage improvement, wetland enhancement and flood reduction project on the south side of Eureka in 2000 when the golf course's manager noticed coho salmon living in the Martin Slough.

Talent's pipe dream
Ashland Daily Tidings
Cheaper TID operating costs, water conservation and better habitat for threatened coho salmon would translate into net gains should the Oak Street and two other Bear Creek diversions disappear as part of an ambitious WISE project to pipe about 200 ...

Valentine's Day 2012: Babblin' Babs Bistro menu
Weekly Volcano
Bristol Bay Coho Salmon- It's not salmon unless Captain Charlie caught it! Lightly seasoned salmon fillet oven slow roast to perfection. Then with a delicate lemon hollandaise sauce draped ever so lightly across the top. Finished with Champ mashed ...

NOAA to hold coho salmon recovery meeting; encourages public input on draft plan
Times-Standard
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is scheduled to hold a public meeting on Tuesday in Bayside to discuss its draft coho salmon recovery plan. The agency is seeking public comment on its draft plan for threatened coho salmon in ...

Outlook good on restoring salmon runs in Elwha River
Peninsula Daily
Last summer, about 600 coho salmon were released into tributaries between the two dams — the Little River and Indian Creek — to shield them from high sediment loads coming down the main stem of the river. “About half of those came back over the lower ...

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Juan de Fuca officials galvanize to battle 'stupid' DFO move
Victoria Times Colonist
One of the most productive coho salmon runs on southern Vancouver Island is likely to be wiped out by a Department of Fisheries and Oceans decision to destroy a dam that was built to conserve salmon. It is not an easy decision, but because of budget ...

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Muir Woods National Monument upgrades
San Francisco Chronicle
Even a handful of steelhead and coho salmon have returned from the Pacific Ocean to spawn at the base of trees more than a thousand years old. But Muir Woods National Monument is an ancient forest with modern problems. The park had 834356 visitors in ...

Juan de Fuca officials galvanize to battle 'stupid' DFO move
Victoria Times Colonist
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist January 28, 2012 3:13 AM One of the most productive coho salmon runs on southern Vancouver Island is likely to be wiped out by a Department of Fisheries and Oceans decision to destroy a dam that was built to conserve ...