A call to arms for wildlife managers.(My Turn: PEST MANAGEMENT...

Pest Control;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......backgrounds and training, however. Most wildlife managers have a background in trapping or...school of the great outdoors. Many wildlife managers come from construction backgrounds...but also the makeup of buildings. Wildlife managers often are called on to do many minor...

COMMERCE SECRETARY DETERMINES SOCKEYE SALMON DISASTER AFFECTING PUGET...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 14, 2008 ;     235 words ......fisheries resource disaster in the sockeye salmon fisheries in Puget Sound and the northern...have been hurt by drastic declines in sockeye salmon runs and harvests that are so important...resource disaster in the Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery. A similar determination was...

NOAA ANNOUNCES UP TO $2 MILLION FOR SOCKEYE SALMON DISASTER AFFECTING...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 18, 2008 ;     248 words ......commercial fishery failure in Fraser River sockeye salmon. "The assistance we are announcing...have been hurt by drastic declines in sockeye salmon runs and harvests that are so important...resource disaster in the Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery. A similar determination was...

Running hog wild Packs of feral pigs sow problems for farmers, wildlife...

Rocky Mountain News;  June 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ......swaths of private land, off-limits to wildlife managers, wallowing in the muddy trickles...infestation that long ago overwhelmed wildlife managers across the Southeast and Texas, where...are stuff of legend - and concern. Wildlife managers in South Carolina are scrambling...

SCIENTISTS SAY WHALES DIDN'T HURT FISHING SOCKEYE SALMON CATCH HALF AMOUNT...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  September 27, 1998 ;     167 words ......appear to be blameless in the recent sockeye salmon disasters that have struck southwestern...Fisheries Service. This summer's harvest of sockeye salmon from Bristol Bay was about 10 million...at 1,500, despite widely fluctuating sockeye salmon runs during the past 40 years, ...

HOLE OF THE WEEK

Boise Weekly;  July 27, 2005 ;     309 words ......lakes in the Stanley Basin where sockeye salmon return to spawn. None of Idaho's famous redfish, or sockeye salmon, returned to Redfish Lake in 1997...they are the only population of sockeye salmon in the Snake River drainage. They...

SAVING THE SOCKEYE SALMON

The Boston Globe;  March 28, 1998 ;     297 words ......settlement that will enhance conservation of the threatened sockeye salmon and establish fair standards for both fleets. Achieving...parties from fishing rights on that basis. Under those terms, sockeye salmon were restricted to Canadian fishers and limited to 120,000...

Wildlife managers aren't hunting extremists

The Boston Globe;  September 14, 1998 ;     213 words ......extremists." It is staffed by professional biologists and wildlife managers whose expertise has created one of the most biologically...would not have such natural richness without them. Our wildlife managers do not advocate inhumane hunting or trapping practices...

Running hog wild Packs of feral pigs sow problems for farmers, wildlife...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  June 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ......swaths of private land, off-limits to wildlife managers, wallowing in the muddy trickles...infestation that long ago overwhelmed wildlife managers across the Southeast and Texas, where...are stuff of legend - and concern. Wildlife managers in South Carolina are scrambling...

ALL DRAINAGES OF BAY OF PILLARS OPENED TO SOCKEYE FISHING

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 6, 2007 ;     223 words ......rescinded the closure of the harvest of sockeye salmon in drainages flowing into the Bay of...initiated to protect the health of the sockeye salmon resource and for the continuation of...There is consensus that the stock of sockeye salmon is healthy and the closure to non-federally...

What's Happening -- "Roboduck" Is History; Cougar Plans on Hold --...

Yakima Herald-Republic;  August 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ...a Sockeye Salmon? -- Bird Alert: Hawks Like to Dine...15. Can You Tell a Chinook From a Sockeye Salmon? That's the question to which anglers...is 24 inches or more in length. A sockeye salmon, however, is considered an adult...

CANADIAN FISHERS HEAD FOR SOCKEYE CATCH

United Press International;  August 19, 1998 ;     277 words ......it had discovred about one million sockeye salmon heading toward the Fraser River. The...imposed new restrictions on Canadian sockeye salmon fishing. The restrictions were based...earlier estimates of a lower-than- normal sockeye salmon run. Commercial fishermen began preparing...

Building Their Own Beds

Natural History;  May 1, 2008 ;     199 words ...When a female sockeye salmon is ready to spawn, she finds a spot in stream gravel and sets about...into account. (Geophysical Research Letters) -S.R. [Sidebar] Female sockeye salmon swim in the Skeena River watershed, British Columbia.

The ones that got away. (sockeye salmon disappear from British Columbia's...

The Economist (US);  November 12, 1994 ;     497 words ......embarrassed blush, pink as a spawning Pacific salmon. About 3m sockeye salmon disappeared from this summer's spawning runs on the Fraser...Salmon spend most of their adult lives (of four years, for sockeye salmon) in the ocean, then return to their native rivers to spawn...

SOCKEYE SEASON OPENS ON COLUMBIA RIVER

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 20, 2008 ;     253 words ......unexpected opportunity to take home a sockeye salmon when the summer chinook fishing season...much higher than average counts of sockeye salmon passing Bonneville Dam, Oregon and...decided today to allow retention of sockeye salmon during upcoming summer chinook fisheries...