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Salmon News

* Most Recent News, Articles, and Reports* Pat Higgins, Consulting Fisheries Biologist Patrick Higgins is consulting fisheries biologist and watershed scientist with an office in Arcata, California since 1989. See Videos, reports and photos of the Eel River. Eel River Fall Chinook Monitoring Project Final 2010 Report This is a large file, be patient. The salmon puzzle - John Driscoll/The Times-Standard Posted: 04/19/2010 There are dozens of pieces to a salmon season. For a salmon season to be good, however, those things must fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and not work their way apart over the summer. Read the Complete Article Big chinook run on the Eel River this year; more fish will likely be seen at Van Arsdale station than in decades - John Driscoll/The Times-Standard Posted: 11/19/2010 The largest number of chinook salmon counted at the Van Arsdale Fisheries Station since records began being kept in the 1940s is 1,754. This year, already, biologists have counted 1,600 -- and the run is probably not at its peak ... Read the Complete Article Desperately seeking salmon to count: Divers aim to get a picture of how Eel River diversion affects fish John Driscoll/The Times-Standard Posted: 10/02/2010 Divers scoured holes on the lower Eel River on Friday looking to get an estimate of how many salmon and steelhead have moved in from the ocean so far ... Read the Complete Article Thompson joins group urging protection from genetically engineered salmon The Times-Standard Posted: 09/30/2010 Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, has joined a group of 23 members of Congress in asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt the approval process of AquaBounty genetically engineered (GE) salmon ... Read the Complete Article Fresh fish: Salmon take turn for the better on Freshwater Creek John Driscoll/The Times-Standard Posted: 12/13/2010 After several years of steady declines, Freshwater Creek's salmon appear to be on the upswing ... Read the Complete Article Panel weighs possibilities for Chinook salmon; group will inform U.S. Interior secretary on Klamath dam removal John Driscoll/The Times-Standard Posted: 01/11/2011 A panel of experts that will advise the U.S. Interior secretary on the potential removal of four dams on the Klamath River gathered Monday in Eureka to investigate how the massive project might benefit Chinook salmon ...Read the Complete Article Fishing the North Coast:Below average salmon return expected on the Klamath Wind should let up for the weekend Kenny Priest/For the Times-Standard Posted: 07/22/2010 More than 110,000 fall Chinook salmon, the largest and most prized of the salmon species, are expected back to the Klamath River in 2010, according to Sara Borok, an Associate Fisheries Biologist for the Klamath River. While that sounds like a lot, it falls slightly below the yearly average ... Read The Complete Article Fish fix permanent for Freshwater Creek; structure allows young salmon to migrate up and down stream during summer John Driscoll/The Times-Standard Posted: 07/03/2010 A one-of-a-kind fish ladder for young salmon and steelhead is complete and operating in tandem with a swimming hole on Freshwater Creek that's been popular for nearly 100 years ... Read the Complete Article Mattole coho on the brink: Groups, agencies to meet on what can be done to spare salmon John Driscoll/The Times-Standard Posted: 06/21/2010 Coho salmon in Southern Humboldt County's Mattole River are at a breaking point ... Read the Complete Article Miscellaneous Links to Articles Volunteers, DFG return Coho to Salmon Creek SALMON CREEK - Up until a few days ago the last time anybody spotted salmon in Salmon Creek was back in the mid 1990’s, when the fish finally succumbed to habitat destruction and drought....... CLICK HERE TO READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE Salmon Struggling in Hot Mattole by John Driscoll - Times Standard 08/14/2007 Salmon Decision Leaves Protections by John Driscoll - Times Standare 08/16/2007 Salmon In the Classroom Program 2005 - Teacher Participant List Books about Salmon and Watersheds (mostly for kids) Bibliography of Websites about Salmon and Watersheds Study Cites Risks of Eating Farmed Salmon

Endangered Species

Salmon hanging in the balance by John Driscoll - Times Standard Suit could follow any delisting of marbled murrelet New count method may remove seabird from U.S. protection Population Numbers May Doom Salmon By JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press Writer - Tuesday, September 6, 2005 A Legal Challenge Seeks Protection for Murrelet and Salmon Schwarzenegger Administration Sued for Taking End-Run for Maxxam

Water News

Click Here to visit the Coastal Watershed Program Website. The Coastal Watershed Planning and Assessment Program (CWPAP) is a Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) program conducting fishery-based watershed assessments along the length of the California coast. The Molecule Called Water Potter Valley could snag water-sharing plan Sonoma County Water Agency wants to buy dam on Eel that feeds Russian River Proposed Watershed-wide Waste Discharge Requirements for the Elk River and Freshwater Creek Watersheds. Trinity, Klamath get Big Bucks.

Van Duzen News

The New River Center in Fortuna Van Duzen Project article from Eel River Reporter Fall 2006 Meetings, Agendas, and Minutes Eyes off the Van Duzen? (Times Standard)02/04/2005 The Sacrifice Zone: The Van Duzen Watershed is paying the price for the Headwaters deal. Award winning article by Keith Easthouse, Northcoast Journal, January, 2003. FOVD goes to Sacramento Keypoints and Requests WQ Summary and Legislative Requests Establishing an Alliance

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Views of the River

Michael Guerriero Photo by Mona Krupski It was a beautiful day, with blue sky and our goal was to paddle a pair of sea kayaks on this 12 mile reach to the Eel River, then the 3 miles of Fortuna. . . . Click Here to read the rest of the story