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Skeletal remains were found by timber cruisers Thursday morning just outside the boundary of the Headwaters Forest near Elk River, the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office reported.
Tags: ca, Coroner's Office, Elk River, Headwaters, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, King Salmon, Local, Salmon
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Local commercial fishermen say they’re not optimistic about this year’s salmon prospects, even after a federal panel recommended reopening the fishing season along the California coast, with restrictions.
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Even the worst case scenario for North Coast ocean sport fishermen this year appears to be substantially better than last year’s token fishery. At the same time, commercial salmon fishermen — having struggled with several recent years of
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There’s too much water in the Russian River, and not enough in the Eel. Yet Eel River water continues to be diverted to the Russian.
Friends of the Eel River (FOER) is petitioning the State Water Board to help both rivers, and Humboldt County may get involved after comments at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.
Fisheries biologist Pat Higgins said dams need to be removed, and “the time for action is now.”
“We can’t wait for FERC,” Higgins said, referring to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. “We’ve been FERCing around with them for too long.”
The county may get involved in the FOER’s effort, according to Supervisor Jimmy Smith. He said he will bring more information to the Board in a future meeting when the topic can be put on the agenda. The Board was prevented from taking action Tuesday because the issue was raised during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Supervisor Clif Clendenen called for the return of historic flows to the Eel during his 2008 campaign.
Congressman Mike Thompson told KMUD in 2008 that Eel River water wouldn’t be returned “any time soon.” Perhaps he’ll find some enthusiasm in light of recent bad news for both rivers.
For more check out FOER’s press release announcing their petition:
There were over 500,000 salmon in the Eel River Basin before the operation of PG&E’s PVP hydroelectric operations. Last year’s count came in at fewer than 500. And on the Russian River, the threat to endangered salmon and steelhead is equally dire. During the peak spawning months, the diversion of Eel River water into the Russian River creates flows that have been too high for fish in critical reaches of the Russian River; flows which must be reduced by a mandate of NMFS’ Russian River Biological Opinion 2008.
KMUD aired audio from the Supervisors meeting on Tuesday’s 6:00 news, which can be heard in the archives.
Tags: ca, California, CAMP, coast, Eel River, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Jimmy Smith, Mike Thompson, Northern California, PG&E, Salmon, steelhead, UPD
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The host of a parasite that infects and kills thousands of young salmon in the Klamath River appears to have spread with the drought in recent years, researchers say.
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A conservation group is looking to the state to significantly cut back on the diversion of Eel River water to the Russian River in what it says is a last-ditch effort to save crashing salmon and steelhead runs.
Tags: Eel River, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local, PG&E, Salmon, steelhead
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It Looks like The Klamath River could be the hot spot for salmon fishing this coming season.
Tags: California, Eureka, fishing, Humboldt, KIEM, Klamath, Klamath River, Northern California, Salmon
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There is hope for a decent salmon season after several years of crushing closures driven by troubling returns of spawning chinook salmon to the Sacramento and Klamath rivers.
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The forecast of an increased chinook salmon run holds out the promise of a limited commercial salmon fishing season for the first time in three years. The state holds the first meeting in Santa Rosa, followed by meetings in Ontario, Sacramento, Eureka, Monterey and Portland, where a final decision will be made by the federal fishery council.
Tags: California, fishing, fishing season, Humboldt, Northern California, Salmon
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I remember with unusual clarity pulling into Klamath Glen in 2002, where the smell of rotting salmon was as pungent as the attitude of several Yurok elders I found sitting at a picnic table a stone’s throw away from the Klamath River.
Tags: Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Klamath, Klamath River, Local, Salmon, Yurok
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A century-old fight in California and Oregon over water from the Klamath Basin ended Thursday with signed agreements that assure farmers water and power to keep their crops green, and lay out the removal of dams that have blocked salmon from hundreds of miles of spawning grounds.
Tags: California, Klamath, Northern California, Oregon, Salmon
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Agreements to tear out four dams on the Klamath River and rebuild its storied salmon fisheries were signed in Oregon’s Capitol on Thursday, marking a major milestone for tribes, fishermen and farmers who put aside years of conflict to negotiate
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The preseason management schedule for 2010 salmon management has been set. Public Hearings The Council will sponsor season option hearings at the following locations and dates:
Westport, Washington (March 29);
Coos Bay, Oregon (March 29);
Eureka, California (March 30).
Other state-sponsored meetings will be considered at the March 2010 Council meeting.
Tags: California, Eureka, fishing, hearing, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Salmon
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A landmark agreement expected to be signed today that would remove four dams on the Klamath River and begin a series of restoration efforts would be a boost to salmon and other fish, according to a U.
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Bodega Bay fishermen are holding on to a slim hope that there will be a chinook salmon fishing season this year, even though the number of adult fish that returned to the Sacramento River in 2009 was the lowest on record.
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