| Salmon Swim Freely in the Klamath River | |
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Source: Associated Press |
10/7/2024 |
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Credit: AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus |
For the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — just days after the largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed.
Researchers determined that Chinook salmon began migrating Oct. 3 into previously inaccessible habitat above the site of the former Iron Gate dam, one of four towering dams demolished as part of a national movement to let rivers return to their natural flow and to restore ecosystems for fish and other wildlife. |
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“It’s been over one hundred years since a wild salmon last swam through this reach of the Klamath River,” said Damon Goodman, a regional director for the nonprofit conservation group California Trout. “I am incredibly humbled to witness this moment and share this news, standing on the shoulders of decades of work by our Tribal partners, as the salmon return home." |
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| Canadas sanction of 4 Passamaquoddy fishermen heats dispute over tribal fishing rights |
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Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP |
The dispute over tribal fishing rights in Passamaquoddy Bay is again heating up, with four Passamaquoddy fishermen from Sipayik facing charges for lobstering in Canadian waters, the Canadian fisheries minister voicing support for Indigenous fishing rights and lobster fishermen from southwest New Brunswick holding a protest in St. Andrews over alleged lack of enforcement of Canadian fishing laws along the boundary with the U.S. and calling for the resignation of the fisheries minister. |
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Similar incidents in which Sipayik fishermen, who maintain a right to fish in their traditional territory, have been charged for violating Canadian fishing laws have occurred during the past decade. |
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thenewstribune 10/17/2024 |
A group of fishermen rescued a fish from a surprising and excruciatingly painful situation during a recent outing in Oklahoma. Cody Shirk, owner of Chasin’ Tail Guide Service, had taken some regular clients to catch paddlefish on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees on Oct. 5, when they encountered the long-suffering fish, he told McClatchy News in a phone interview.
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| Lac Coulonge [45.9, -76.8] |
| Echoing River [55.4, -91.4] |
| French River [46.1, -80.0] |
| George Lake [46.0, -81.4] |
| Georgian Bay [44.7, -79.7] |
| Upper Raft Lake [45.5, -79.1] |
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| Pakeshkag Lake [46.0, -80.5] |
| Cat Tail River [51.0, -88.2] |
| Iskut River [56.8, -130.5] |
| Dart Lake [48.4, -90.8] |
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