Pacific Northwest Wild Salmon News Watch from August 23 to August 29, 2014

Years of hard work repairing the city’s river soul has let salmon return in record quantities

By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun COLUMNIST August 24, 2014

QUINSAM RIVER — The ominous shadow cast by an eagle in search of a thermal glides across the sun-dappled pool on this clear, ambling little tributary of the Campbell River.

Odd Grydeland, , FishfarmingXpert, August 27, 2014

Canada: With millions of wild salmon swimming down the coast of British Columbia, government scientists must consider the wellbeing of hundreds of individual stocks when determining harvest numbers.

 

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By Peter Meiszner,  Global News, August 25, 2014

WATCH: Commercial gillnetters are taking full advantage of a 24 hour sockeye salmon opening in the province...The latest numbers from DFO estimate seven million sockeye running the Fraser...It’s one of the best years for the number of fish returning in the Fraser. The last banner year was four years ago when about 30 million sockeye returned.  The fish returning now are part of that four year cycle.

Penticton and South Okanagan News, by Roy Wood  Aug 27, 2014

...In the largest return since records began in 1938, over 600,000 of the prized food fish have moved from the Pacific Ocean into the Columbia River system to begin their spawning cycle.

Canadian Tourism Commission, August 27, 2014

Millions of sockeye salmon are set to return to the Adams River this fall, creating an incredible, colourful natural spectacle.

 

By DAVE GALLAGHER, THE BELLINGHAM HERALD, August 24, 2014

In a development that has left local fishermen scratching their heads, it appears an unusually warm section of ocean water is helping send nearly the entire sockeye salmon run into Canadian fishing waters this season...in recent weeks about 99 percent of the sockeye salmon has gone through the Johnstone Strait around the northern part of Vancouver Island into Canadian waters.

 

The Associated Press, August 28, 2014

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Unusually warm water off the Washington coast is sending the vast majority of the sockeye salmon run to Canadian waters, leaving Puget Sound fishermen with nearly empty nets. According to data from the Pacific Salmon Commission, nearly 2.9 million sockeye salmon have been caught in Canadian waters, while only about 98,000 have been netted in Washington through Aug. 19. That means 99 percent of sockeye salmon have gone through the Johnstone Strait around the northern part of Vancouver Island into Canadian waters.

 

 'Real' anglers stay away when sockeye running on Fraser

by  Paul J. Henderson - Chilliwack Times, posted Aug 27, 2014

One of the great ironies of recreational sockeye fishing in the Fraser River is that in a season of large returns such as this year’s, many “real” anglers stay away...“It’s not sport fishing,” says local recreational fisherman Matthew Hawkins who does equipment reviews and fishing podcasts with his partner Ryan Enns on their website, fishingguys.ca. “We call it a meat harvest.”

 

by  Ralph Shaw - Comox Valley Record, Aug 27, 2014

It is not uncommon to see our streams very low in terms of stream flow, but this summer has more than the usual threats to our returning salmon stocks and the little salmon that must make it through the summer to reach smolt stage for next year.

 

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