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Return of salmon to San Joaquin River comes at cost

Marek Warszawski The Fresno Bee

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 4:15pm

FRESNO, Calif. -- Few people, if any, know the San Joaquin River as well as Louis Moosios.

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Big summer for salmon off Washington coast

Mark Yuasa The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, August 29, 2011 - 3:03pm

SEATTLE -- This summer's coastal salmon fishery will go down as one for the memory books with kings up to 50 pounds.

"On Sunday we had two kings that weighed 46-plus pounds (cleaned and gutted), and I lost count of the number between 35 and 45 pounds, but I know there was a pile of them caught," said Mark Cedergreen, the president of the Westport Charterboat Association.

Among those relishing a crowning moment off Westport was Kevin Lanier, vice president of the Sno-King Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers in Edmonds and his father Danny Stovall of Fairburn, Ga. Lanier fished about 18 miles off the mouth of Grays Harbor in 330 feet of water when they hooked multiple big kings Sunday.

"According to the tape it weighed 53 pounds (44-inch length by 31.5-inch girth)," Lanier said. "We put it on the scale at Westport and it weighed 47 pounds, 10 ounces, and we got another that weighed 38 pounds."

Stovall was trolling with a downrigger using a whole herring with a Fish Flash, at a depth of 50 feet.

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Scientists: Idaho's Snake River dams must be breached

Eric Barker, The Lewiston Morning Tribune McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 11:01am

BOISE, Idaho -- The Western Division of the American Fisheries Society said Monday the lower Snake River dams must be breached if wild runs of salmon and steelhead are to be saved and restored to fishable numbers.

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Scientists say removing Klamath River dams may not help salmon

Bettina Boxell, Los Angeles Times McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Monday, June 27, 2011 - 9:39am

A $1.4 billion project to remove four hydroelectric dams and restore habitat to return Chinook salmon to the upper reaches of the Klamath River amounts to an experiment with no guarantee of success, an independent science review has concluded.

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Millions needed to return salmon to California river

Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee

Last updated Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 3:11pm

FRESNO, Calif. -- Reviving chinook salmon on the San Joaquin River will cost more than $20 million -- which may sound like a lot of money for 40,000 fish. But this rare project will take years of work, scientists say.

Three-quarters of those fish will be spring-run salmon, a threatened species already in danger of extinction in California. In the San Joaquin, the fish will have to survive in the southernmost salmon fishery on the continent -- where the water sometime gets a little too warm for them.

Scientists say they haven't found similar reintroductions of the threatened spring-run salmon in a river like the San Joaquin, which had been dry in places for more than a half century. Federal officials need to breed a resilient fish for this river.

In February, federal officials began revealing details of the project that will include a $14.5 million hatchery near Friant Dam and more than $7 million to operate it for a decade.

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