Comments on: Salmon Season Sunk http://facescafish.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/salmon-season-sunk/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:27:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: buittykilky http://facescafish.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/salmon-season-sunk/#comment-67 buittykilky Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:27:54 +0000 http://facescafish.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-67 Hey everyone just wanna say hello and introduce myself! Hey everyone just wanna say hello and introduce myself!

]]> By: J http://facescafish.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/salmon-season-sunk/#comment-54 J Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:46:25 +0000 http://facescafish.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-54 Hello Lori: I have referred to your post about the struggling fishing community on my blog, http://localnomad.wordpress.com/ thanks, Jean Hello Lori:

I have referred to your post about the struggling fishing community on my blog, http://localnomad.wordpress.com/

thanks,

Jean

]]> By: Ernie Koepf http://facescafish.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/salmon-season-sunk/#comment-10 Ernie Koepf Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:28:04 +0000 http://facescafish.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-10 Throughout the 1980's, 90's and up until 2004, the California salmon industry sustained record catches of troll caught salmon, despite numerous droughts and El Nino events. After the severe drought and El Nino of 1976-77, the directors of PCFFA recognized the need to address poor river water conditions in the CV and seek a way to improve the returns of hatchery released fish. First, a means to fund this effort was neccesary and the Salmon Enhancement Stamp was born. Next came a new method of hatchery release; the fry were raised to smolts and placed in trucks for release West of the Delta into acclimaton pens and further released from there to their journey to the Golden Gate and beyond. This increased the returns to hatcheries dramatically, 250%-1100%. The level of ocean abundance increased by threefold. The California Fisheries Foundation, through grants from Delta and salmon enhancement funds, carried out this work. Then, in 2004 and 2005, the California Fisheries Foundation (a non profit doing salmon, steelhead and bass restoration work) did not apply for grants and the practice of off-site release into acclimation pens missed two consecutive years. The result was a dramatic decline in ocean abundance and in-river returns. Now, in the spring of 2008, CFF and the DFG has released a record number of smolts into pens west of the Delta; 20 million fish headed for the open ocean this year. It will be three years before they return to the CV system, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Clearly, the DFG now recognizes the importance of by-passing the Delta as a component part of the hatchery system. I hope. Ernie Koepf Throughout the 1980’s, 90’s and up until 2004, the California salmon industry sustained record catches of troll caught salmon, despite numerous droughts and El Nino events. After the severe drought and El Nino of 1976-77, the directors of PCFFA recognized the need to address poor river water conditions in the CV and seek a way to improve the returns of hatchery released fish. First, a means to fund this effort was neccesary and the Salmon Enhancement Stamp was born. Next came a new method of hatchery release; the fry were raised to smolts and placed in trucks for release West of the Delta into acclimaton pens and further released from there to their journey to the Golden Gate and beyond. This increased the returns to hatcheries dramatically, 250%-1100%. The level of ocean abundance increased by threefold. The California Fisheries Foundation, through grants from Delta and salmon enhancement funds, carried out this work.

Then, in 2004 and 2005, the California Fisheries Foundation (a non profit doing salmon, steelhead and bass restoration work) did not apply for grants and the practice of off-site release into acclimation pens missed two consecutive years. The result was a dramatic decline in ocean abundance and in-river returns. Now, in the spring of 2008, CFF and the DFG has released a record number of smolts into pens west of the Delta; 20 million fish headed for the open ocean this year. It will be three years before they return to the CV system, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Clearly, the DFG now recognizes the importance of by-passing the Delta as a component part of the hatchery system. I hope.

Ernie Koepf

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