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To Help Fish, You Need to Know Where They Are

April 17, 2017
Mark Walker

At the Council’s April meeting, research fisheries biologists Michael Young and Dan Isaak from the USDA Forest Service shared first-year results from an environmental DNA inventory of bull trout, the target of the most extensive effort to date to map

Fish Head Bounty

March 24, 2017
John Harrison

Northern pike, a voracious predator, are continuing to invade Lake Roosevelt, imperiling other fish species. There is a $10 per fish bounty to get them out of the lake.

Fish Forecast: 'Not Very Good'

March 15, 2017
John Harrison

2017 is predicted to be another poor year for Columbia River salmon and steelhead runs, but they've been worse in the past.

Water for Fish, Farms, and People

March 14, 2017
John Harrison

Water transactions are helping fish and boosting local economies across the West, and the Columbia River Basin provides an example of success.

Fish Tools

March 13, 2017
John Harrison

The Council and its partners are developing online information tools to help show progress toward recovery goals for fish in the Columbia River Basin.

Sea Lion Fish Feast

March 01, 2017
John Harrison

The number of salmon and steelhead consumed by sea lions at Bonneville Dam last year, more than 9,500 fish, was the second-largest since observations and monitoring began in 2002, according to a report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During their annual spring foray into the Columbia River, sea lions also killed lamprey and sturgeon.

Lamprey Rescue

February 16, 2017
John Harrison

A 400-million-year-old species, Pacific lamprey, has cultural and environmental significance in the Columbia River Basin, where upriver populations have declined over time, in some rivers to zero. But research, artificial propagation, and dam-passage improvements for adult lamprey show promise of rebuilding the species.

Mussel Strategy

January 23, 2017
John Harrison

Non-native, invasive freshwater mussels pose "a grave threat to the waters and economic resources" of the state, Governor Steve Bullock said last fall, and now the state has a plan to respond quickly if and when the invaders take hold.

Fish And Wildlife Project Cost Savings

January 18, 2017
John Harrison

Cost savings in existing fish and wildlife projects could be shifted to higher-priority projects including scientific research, habitat evaluations, and projects addressing sturgeon and lamprey without adding money to the program.

Mussel Alert

December 16, 2016
John Harrison

Zebra and quagga mussel larvae discovered in several Montana water bodies in November prompted a defensive action to keep the damaging species from invading other Northwest water bodies. Federal money is on the way to help the fight.

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