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Salmon one of nature’s endangered

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 26, 2008 at 5:40 am

From the Appeal-Democrat:

It was a giant among salmon, three times the size of its peers — an 85-pounder that turned up in the upper Sacramento River, believed the largest in three decades. But the reason for the fish’s girth had a darker layer — a population crash that has led to severely restricting fishing on West Coast shores and rivers. “It had its last year basically free because there was no commercial fishery,” said Doug Killam, a state Department of Fish and Game researcher in Tehama County.

The giant salmon discovered in late October, 20 miles south of Red Bluff, was one of a much-thinned field in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, where record low counts of chinook salmon have shrunk the Mid-Valley’s angling season and started to threaten the businesses and tourism linked to it.

“The preliminary results are that they’re similar to last year’s returns — which were dismal,” said Scott Barrow, a senior Fish and Game biologist in Sacramento.

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November 26, 2008 · Filed Under Salmon

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