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Are gill nets decimating Klamath and Trinity salmon runs?

Posted by: Maven on November 8, 2009 at 6:34 am

gill netFrom redding.com, website of the Record Searchlight:

“Leonard “Spam” Ferris has stretched a gill net into the waters of the Trinity River near his home on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation for about 50 years.

After starting as his grandpa’s helper when he was 7 years old, Ferris, now 57, says he catches as many as 700 salmon a year using gill nets. So far this year, he’s caught 400 and expects to keep filling his smokehouse.

“It’s a late run so they are still coming,” he said.

While Ferris, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, said he hasn’t seen more gill nets this year along the river through the reservation than in a typical year, upstream salmon guides charge that an increase in tribal gill nets is decimating the fish’s fall run.

“We are just not seeing the fish we should be seeing,” said Steve Huber, 43, a fishing guide in Weaverville. …”

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November 8, 2009 · Filed Under Northern California

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