Elliott Bay To Reopen For Chinook
Washington salmon managers announce that Elliott Bay will open for another long, extended weekend of salmon fishing, thanks to in-season info that shows enough Chinook are returning to support more days on the water for anglers on the Seattle waterfront.
‘Sound The Alarm’ – Tuna Fishing’s Back
“Sound the alarm: tuna are back close to our coast again and in big, big numbers.”
So writes Jeff Holmes in a fishing report fresh from the Pacific off Westport, where he and a crew of old hands and albacore virgins slayed 53 earlier this week.
Federal Judge Faults NMFS’s SE AK Biop Hatchery Mitigation
A US District Court judge has found that the National Marine Fisheries Service screwed up when it authorized a Southeast Alaska salmon fishing plan that leaned on unclear hatchery production increases at that time to mitigate the take of Chinook that almost entirely return to Washington, Oregon and elsewhere and provide forage for ESA-listed southern resident killer whales.