West coast salmon recovery

Bambistew said:
A start to save king salmon would be to stop killing them in the ocean by the 10s of thousands and dumping them overboard as by-catch. As you eluded to, we can have the best habitat and no fish in it... The trawl fishery in the Bering Sea kills more salmon dumps them overboard, than are harvested in Alaska by other means. Same goes for many other species. Its sickening... They dump nearly and equal value of fish over as they keep. All so we can eat those cheap McFish sandwiches.
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Bumping this for anyone who is not tracking
 
Damn. Although that video is dramatized by music and Attenborough, that’s f’in crazy. Especially the bycatch part. Needs to be a better way.
 
R.K. said:
As much as you hate to see the video, maybe this will finally help it get some visibility and help move a ban further along. Needed to be banned 50 years ago, but I’ll settle for banning it now.
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I agree! We need some memes with Ronald McDonald at the helm and the Golden Arches holding the nets open.
 
Irrelevant said:

I wanted to throw this out there and see what people think about this new study. The conclusion is that while we can readily identify part of the freshwater ecosystem that salmon use that are in poor condition, we can't show that improving them actually leads to salmon restoration. Salmon (this study was looking at chinook) are declining everywhere, including basins with relatively pristine habitat. The millions upon millions spent to, say, place logs in rivers, isn't going to offset to worsening ocean conditions. The real take away for me was that we need to spend more effort evaluating things that actually restore salmon populations and not things that we think restore salmon, or that just feel good.
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How do you know which is which, until you study both?
 
I seen a lot on the American River above Sacramento last winter, heard rumors of it getting salmon re-opened in California 🤙🏽
 
Ok, fine. There is a parasite problem that affects Kings on the longest spawning stream in Alaska. Doesent explain the dramatic loss of king salmon stock for every system north of Valdez. Just about every river system north of there to the Yukon was either shut down or greatly restricted for Kings. Most of those rivers are relatively short.
The kings have been abundant in the Yukon historically, certainly were when I was a kid, Chum were the mainstay of the communities along the river. They are almost non existent now. Reading that com fish paid for the study without mentioning the by catch is telling.
 
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