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World's Biggest Sockeye Run Shut Down as Wild Pacific Salmon Fight for Survival
Dr. David Suzuki
Sep. 21, 2016 11:28AM EST
Salmon have been swimming in Pacific Northwest waters for at least seven million years.
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For as long as people have lived in the area, salmon have been an important food source and have helped shape cultural identities. But something is happening to Pacific coast salmon.
This year, British Columbia's sockeye salmon run was the lowest in recorded history. Commercial and First Nations fisheries on the world's biggest sockeye run on British Columbia's longest river, the Fraser, closed. Fewer than 900,000 sockeye out of a projected 2.2 million returned to the Fraser to spawn. Areas once teeming with salmon are all but empty.
Salmon define West Coast communities, especially Indigenous ones. The West Coast is a Pacific salmon forest. Today, salmon provide food and contribute to sustainable economies built on fishing and ecotourism. West Coast children learn about the salmon life cycle early in their studies.
Salmon migrations, stretching up to 3,000 kilometers, are among the world's most awe-inspiring. After spending adult lives in the ocean, salmon make the arduous trip up rivers against the current, returning to spawn and die where they hatched. Only one out of every thousand salmon manages to survive and return to its freshwater birthplace.
So what's going wrong? Climate change is amplifying a long list of stressors salmon already face. Sockeye salmon are sensitive to temperature changes, so higher ocean and river temperatures can have serious impacts. Even small degrees of warming can kill them. Low river flows from unusually small snowpacks linked to climate change make a tough journey even harder.
Oceans absorb the brunt of our climate pollution—more than 90 percent of emissions-trapped heat since the 1970s. Most warming takes place near the surface, where salmon travel, with the upper 75 meters warming 0.11 C per decade between 1971 and 2010. Although ocean temperatures have always fluctuated, climate change is lengthening those fluctuations. A giant mass of warmer-than-average water in the Pacific, known as "the blob," made ocean conditions even warmer, with El Niño adding to increased temperatures. Salmon have less food and face new predators migrating north to beat the heat.
Beyond creating poor environmental conditions for salmon, climate change increases disease risks. Warm conditions have led to sea lice outbreaks in farmed and wild salmon, and a heart and muscle inflammatory disease has been found in at least one farm. Scientists researching salmon movement through areas with farms are finding wild fish, especially young ones, with elevated parasite levels. Diseases that cause even slight deficiencies in swimming speed or feeding ability could make these marathon swimmers easy prey.
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Some question whether wild salmon will remain a West Coast food staple. For the first time, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program has advised consumers to avoid buying chinook and coho from four South Coast fisheries. Researchers also predict changing conditions will drive important food fish north by up to 18 kilometers a decade.
Disappearing salmon don't just affect humans but all coastal ecosystems and wildlife. Eighty-two endangered southern resident killer whales depend on chinook salmon to survive. As chinook stocks go down, the likelihood that these whales could become extinct goes up.
Although the federal government has committed to implement recommendations from Justice Bruce Cohen's inquiry into Fraser River sockeye and to follow the Wild Salmon Policy, reversing this dire situation will take widespread concerted and immediate action. A weak provincial climate plan that fails to meet emissions targets and acceptance of new ocean-based fish farm applications won't help wild salmon. We need to move fish farms out of the water and onto land.
Salmon are resilient and have survived ice ages and other challenges over millions of years. They've survived having their streams paved over. They've survived toxins dumped into their environments. The question is, can they—and the ecosystems that depend on them—survive climate change and fish farms and all the other stressors humans are putting on them?
http://www.ecowatch.com/wild-salmon-climate-change-2011395747.html
People tossed a few pet goldfish into a lake, and now they're taking over the ecosystem and growing to massive sizes
By Erin Brodwin
Aug. 17, 2016, 12:09 PM
The goldfish-infested waters of Teller Lake near Boulder, Colorado. Colorado Park and Wildlife
If you've ever dumped a pet goldfish in a nearby body of water and thought your act was harmless, think again.
The seemingly innocent creatures are wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the globe.
In April 2015, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials faced an infestation of 4,000 goldfish in a lake in Boulder County a few years after someone was believed to have dumped a handful of pet goldfish into a nearby lake.
In 2013, wildlife officials in California reported that the fish had begun taking over Lake Tahoe, likely after pet owners had tossed them there.
And for the past 12 years, goldfish populations have been surging in the Vasse River in southwestern Australia, where researchers say the public's well-intentioned disposal practice is a big part of the problem.
Teller Lake has thousands of goldfish. Colorado Parks and Wildlife
The problem is not just that tons of tiny goldfish are in streams where there previously were none — the fish are also growing to massive sizes, in some cases getting as big as 4 pounds, according to Dr. Stephen Beatty, a professor at Murdoch University who has been leading research on how best to address the problem in southwest Australia.
He and his team members regularly found goldfish weighing about 2 pounds, they told Australian radio station 720 ABC Perth.
In Lake Tahoe, US Forest Service fish biologists reported being well acquainted with the supersized fish, which often weighed several pounds and measured between 4 and 8 inches.
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In each case, local dumping appears to play a serious role.
"Perhaps they were kids' pets where the family have been moving house and their parents, not wanting to take the aquarium, have dumped them in the local wetlands," Beatty told 720 ABC Perth.
Since the goldfish are a nonnative species in these area, wildlife officials are concerned that they are threatening the natural aquatic ecosystem.
"It's a bad thing — it's a really bad thing," Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Jennifer Churchill told Fox 31 News last year. "They'll start eating up everything that the native fish and the amphibians and the birds are here to eat, and so that can have a really negative effect down the road — and this can kill this fishery in a few years."
But questions about how the populations grew to such massive proportions were still boggling scientists.
A paper that Beatty and his team published August 12 in the journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish found that goldfish, who were assumed to be pretty limited in terms of how far they could travel, can actually travel long distances to feed and forage, Mashable reported.
The researchers also found evidence that the fish are migrating to nearby wetlands and reproducing, which further fuels their population growth.
"Just letting go of a pet, no matter how innocuous you think it is in your aquarium or how pretty it is, can potentially cause a lot of damage," Beatty told Mashable.
http://www.businessinsider.com/giant-goldfish-problem-in-australia-and-colorado-2016-8
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This is how I spent Sat. Night... Hybrid Bass (and Crappie) fishing with my daughter. It was so dark and moonless the video doesn't show a lot... wait for the surprise at the end...
Then I had to clean all these fish... Oh well, freezer is stocked again, and we had a fish fry Sunday night...
THE FISH WERE HUNGRY... all these fish from 10:00 p.m. to 2 a.m. when we got the limit..
14-foot tiger shark he caught and released from a beach in Australia
Thoughts ?? Should he be fined ??
http://www.grindtv.com/fishing/fisherman-embroiled-controversy-photos-huge-tiger-shark/#AZ7m4fGrt8qsjTm3.97
The International Game Fish Association world record stands at 427 pounds.
That fish was also caught off Cabo San Lucas, in 2012.
Only a handful of yellowfin weighing 400 pounds have ever been caught on rod-and-reel.
http://www.grindtv.com/fishing/massive-tuna-a-potential-world-record-anglers-costly-mistake/#YuQXPgPycs395KXm.99
Exclusive Photos of the First Ever Great White Shark Caught from a Florida Beach
by Zach Miller
2 days ago
Florida fishermen make a historic great white capture on beach in Florida.
Gabriel Smeby and Derrick Keeny were bundled up on an undisclosed Florida beach, doing what they and their Dark Side Sharkers crew have been doing for decades between them, shark fishing. But on this chilly, early March night, they had no idea that they would be entering the history books of land-based shark fishing.
After deploying three rods with their bait of choice for the night (bonito) via kayak, about 300 yards from the shoreline of the beach, Gabe, Derrick and the rest of the crew bundled up and began the long, tedious waiting game that is land-based shark fishing. They were there for the duration of the night, no matter how cold, miserable, or boring it got.
After an oddly silent night, and patiently waiting for the better part of seven hours, Derrick’s 80 wide rod tip started to bounce a bit. Whatever was gnawing at his bonito on the other end was acting very strange. It was picking up and dropping the bait repeatedly while staying inside a relatively small area. They immediately thought that it was “the curse of the nurse,” better known as a nurse shark for all you non-sharkers. But once they had confidence that the fish playing with their bonito way out off the beach in the cold, quiet night air had finally taken the entire bait, Derrick reeled tight on his line, engaging the circle hook into the unknown assailant’s mouth. The battle had finally begun…
Derrick watched as a tremendous amount of line began disappearing off the spool of his reel. They immediately knew that they did not have the lethargic nurse shark hooked that they originally believed. A long slow, steady run made the fish mad, while the crew sat idlely by wondering what they may have hooked. A big bull shark? A tiger maybe? Possibly even a large hammerhead? Their minds were wandering through the forest of possibilities that presented themself during this particular battle, but before they could put their minds at ease, they had to stop it first.
After about 15 minutes of non-stop pulling, the mystery fish had finally tired out a bit, allowing them to begin gaining all the line they lost back onto the reel. Little by little, the spool began filling back up with all the line that was lost, and there was a sense of relief amongst the crew as they knew their chances of landing this beast had dramatically increased with the gaining of line.
About 45 minutes had elapsed when they saw the swivel attached to their leader rise out of the dark wash, and they knew the fish was right there in front of them. The rest of the crew rushed the surf with flashlights to try to spot and identify the beast they had been battling, when a dorsal broke the surface.
“DUSKY!” Someone yelled (which is very rare shark to see near the beach these days). But then the tail rose about six feet behind the dorsal, and nobody was sure what they were looking at anymore.
The crew rushed the surf to grab the leader, with Derrick still up on the beach working the rod, wondering what was happening in the wash.
“WHITE! IT’S A WHITE!” The crew began to yell up the beach toward Derrick. “A WHITE?! A GREAT WHITE?!” Derrick yelled as he de-harnessed and ran down the beach with the camera.
Indeed it was, the rarest of sharks, and the Dark Side Sharkers had just caught one, the only one to EVER be caught from shore in Florida. The shark at the end of Derrick’s line was one of only four known to have been landed from the beach in the entire United States.
The crew began working quickly to remove the circle hook from the corner of its mouth while somebody in the background kept snapping photos as fast as they could while they were working on prepping the shark for release in the wash zone. While they worked on removing the hook, one of the crew members got a NOAA shark tag and tagged the shark right underneath its dorsal (as per code), making it the only great white shark ever tagged from a beach.
In what seemed like an eternity, but in reality was only a minute and a half, they were pushing the juvenile male great white back out into deeper water, walking with it up until they got to about waist deep water, to make sure he swam off safely.
Circle hook in sharks mouth
Inserting NOAA tag
Derrick, Gabe and the rest of the crew began to lose their minds as the fish swam away, trying to register what had just happened to them on this fateful night. They have been around the sport for a long time, and they knew the significance of this catch, and its place in shark fishing history, as well as how valuable an encounter like this is in the science community.
Releasing the shark
Great white shark sightings have been on the rise in recent years, especially in the state of Florida, which lends credence to the fact that worldwide conservation attempts to protect great white stocks may indeed be working. And with tens of thousands of baits fished by land-based shark fisherman in the state of Florida each year alone, this is the first confirmed great white capture that has ever occurred.
It really goes to show that if you have baits soaking in the water, you never know what you are going to catch. After all, the ocean doesn’t have any fences.
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/first-ever-great-white-shark-caught-florida-beach-exclusive-pics/
Effort to keep Asian carp from Great Lakes appears stymied
By JOHN FLESHER
Dec 16, 1:46 PM (ET)
In this June 13, 2012 file photo, Asian carp, jolted by an electric current from a research boat, jump from the Illinois River near Havana, Ill. A years-long effort to find a strategy to keep the invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes appears to be coming up empty. An advisory panel considering options is scheduled to go out of business Thursday, still deadlocked. (AP Photo/John Flesher, File)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — When scientists discovered six years ago that aggressive Asian carp had made their way up the Mississippi River's tributaries toward the Chicago area, the Obama administration and alarmed state officials pledged swift action to head off an invasion they feared could devastate fishing and boating on the vital Great Lakes.
Since then, federal agencies have spent more than $300 million on stopgap measures, including placing electric barriers on one likely route, a shipping canal that leads to Lake Michigan. But as the carp get closer_some are within 80 miles of the lake— the quest for a surefire deterrent seems to be coming up empty.
An advisory panel that has debated solutions for several years is scheduled to hold what may be its final meeting Thursday, with no sign of a consensus plan, several members said in interviews.
Even if talks continue, chances are growing that the carp will arrive before anything conclusive is done to stop them. At their recent pace, the first young carp could reach Lake Michigan within two years, although a number of obstacles could slow them considerably.
"It's one of the things that keep me up at night," said U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat whose state borders four of the five Great Lakes. "Asian carp could devastate our Great Lakes and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on them."
The most effective measure proposed — blocking waterways that connect the Mississippi River watershed with Lake Michigan — is favored by a majority of the eight Great Lakes states but widely unpopular in two of them, Illinois and Indiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it could cost up to $18 billion, a figure supporters contend is exaggerated.
Separating the watersheds would disrupt shipping on rivers and canals in the Chicago area, where barges annually haul an estimated $29 billion worth of coal, chemicals and other freight. The added delays would shift more cargo to already-packed highways and railroads, said Benjamin Brockschmidt of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.
Also, scientists acknowledge that even if the waterways are blocked, Asian carp eventually might reach the Great Lakes anyway— for example, from careless anglers dumping bait buckets — and that their effect on other fish is still speculative.
"Severing a critical part of the nation's water transportation network is too high a price to pay for a solution that is not guaranteed to stop the spread of invasive species," said Tom Allegretti, president of American Waterways Operators, which represents barge and tugboat companies.
Environmental groups and the region's fishing and boating industries, which generate $23 billion annually on the lakes, are most worried about two varieties of Asian carp: bighead and silver, which weigh dozens of pounds and gorge on the same tiny plant and animal life that feeds the lakes' other fish. Scientists are still measuring their impact in rivers, but under worst-case scenarios, the large carp could leave popular sport fish to go hungry and suffer population drop-offs. Asian carp are edible but bony, and most Great Lakes fish connoisseurs regard them as a poor substitute for the walleye and whitefish.
Additionally, silver carp are notorious for springing from the water when startled, sometimes ramming boaters with bone-cracking force — a hazard that some fear could damage the Great Lakes' tourism industry.
Several carp species were imported from Asia in the early 1970s to cleanse algae from fish farms and sewage treatment ponds in the South. They escaped during flooding and have migrated up the Mississippi and its tributaries, including the Illinois River, which leads to a network of Chicago-area rivers and canals and Lake Michigan.
Carp DNA was detected in those waters in 2009, spurring calls for urgent action.
This fall, crews discovered two small silver carp farther up the Illinois River than ever before. It meant the leading edge of the juvenile population had advanced 66 miles since January — to within 77 miles of Lake Michigan.
"We'd not seen that kind of movement in the last four or five years," said Charles Wooley, deputy Midwestern regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "And all of a sudden, boom."
The juveniles have a better chance of slipping past the electric barriers alive than the larger adults.
Even if the carp get through, scientists say, it could take years to establish breeding populations, and it's doubtful they would spread completely across the Great Lakes, although they could overrun shore areas and tributary rivers where popular species like perch and trout breed and people enjoy water sports.
One proposal with broad support is opening another line of defense at a lock-and-dam near Joliet, Illinois, about 10 miles south of the electric barriers, which could buy more time. Already, a 2-mile-long earthen dam has been built near Fort Wayne, Indiana, to cut off another possible invasion route through the Maumee River into Lake Erie.
Yet the Corps of Engineers says a study of what technologies to deploy near Joliet — underwater noisemakers, carbon dioxide bubble screens, hot-water chambers — won't be completed until early 2019.
"It's not like building a levee or dredging a river," said Jeff Heath, the study manager. "No one has done it before."
The delays are stoking frustration among those fearing the worst from a carp invasion.
"We've been taking this slow march," Stabenow said, "when it needs to be much more of a sprint."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151216/us--asian_carp-great_lakes-47c1c925d8.html
looked like a PERMIT to me...a sick one, funny video, ty
Massive striped bass caught in Missouri sets state record
FoxNews.com
Published May 26, 2015
Lawrence Dillman said he fought the nearly 50-inch striped bass for over 45 minutes at Bulls Shoals Lake, which sits on the state’s border with Arkansas. (Missouri Department of Conservation)
A Missouri fisherman last week pulled in the largest striped bass ever recorded on a "pole and line" in the state, with the fish weighing in at 65.2 pounds.
Lawrence Dillman said he fought the nearly 50-inch monster for more than 45 minutes at Bulls Shoals Lake, which sits on the state's southern border with Arkansas. When the fish eventually came close enough to touch, he "bear hugged the fish and got out of the water on to the bank."
He caught the fish on a 20-pound test line and used a chub minnow for bait.
The previous state record for a fish caught on a "pole and line" weighed in at 60.9 pounds, and was caught in 2011 on the same lake. The Missouri Department of Conservation pointed out that striped bass are most common on the Atlantic Coast, but have been stocked in reservoirs across the U.S.
"Once the fish was on the line, I knew I had a decent one, but I didn't at all think it was a striped bass," Dillman told the department. "I thought it was a spoonbill or something else. But when I got him to the bank I knew I had something amazing."
Dillman's catch was verified at a nearby hatchery and is currently being mounted at a Bass Pro Shop in Springfield.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/05/26/massive-striped-caught-in-missouri-sets-state-record/
Monster Goliath Grouper Caught with Handline from a Dock in Florida [VIDEO]
By: Zach Miller
Feb 18, 2015
Yet another interesting goliath story has surfaced from south Florida, but this one is a bit different.
What happens when you show up to a public boat ramp with a fresh jack, tow strap, and a hook? Apparently you handline a 400-pound goliath grouper and drag them up onto the boat ramp.
It’s not that handlining for goliaths has not been done before, but to have one of that size hanging around the local boat ramp is pretty odd.
When you handline fish, you get a completely different perspective on how much pressure you can really put on them. The young angler in the video isn’t of the largest proportion, but he handily whips the massive grouper in a straight up and down tug-of-war quite easily.
With conventional tackle it would be a much different story. It really begs the question of how big of a fish can you really stop on a handline, like “The Old Man and the Sea.”
Does anybody have old man Santiago’s phone number?
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