PACIFIC OCEAN SALMON GENE MAPPING:
"In their study, the OSU scientists found that about 5 percent of the fish caught off the Oregon coast originated from the Klamath basin. About two of every three fish caught during the research - which included testing in June, July, August and September - came from California. Most of the others were from Oregon's rivers, primarily the Columbia and its tributaries, with the exception of a small percentage of fish from British Columbia and Alaska."
It's pretty clear that if the Sacramento River is going to start permanently having trouble kicking out chinook, the West Coast trollers are history. This is the second year in a row of no troll fishery. The third year in a row of drought in California. California Governors won't be looking to save Oregon trollers so much as big agricultural campaign contributors in their home state.
Although a symptom of the problem with the lack of salmon is most folk don't know the difference between a troller and a trawler. Huge difference. In a nut-shell, trollers keep the king salmon they catch and then sell them, whereas the trawlers dump theirs over the side dead. It gets better: the trawlers in the OR/WA whiting fishery and the bottom trawl fishery are allowed to keep dumping kings and the trollers have to sit in port idle since there isn't enough for both.
In Alaska, the trawlers catch much more chinook than the trollers, and again, dump them all overboard. The runs of these beautiful big salmon are so hammered by the trawlers that the few returning aren't enough for the Western Alaska Natives and the Canadian Yukon Natives to get traditional winter food.
"In their study, the OSU scientists found that about 5 percent of the fish caught off the Oregon coast originated from the Klamath basin. About two of every three fish caught during the research - which included testing in June, July, August and September - came from California. Most of the others were from Oregon's rivers, primarily the Columbia and its tributaries, with the exception of a small percentage of fish from British Columbia and Alaska."
It's pretty clear that if the Sacramento River is going to start permanently having trouble kicking out chinook, the West Coast trollers are history. This is the second year in a row of no troll fishery. The third year in a row of drought in California. California Governors won't be looking to save Oregon trollers so much as big agricultural campaign contributors in their home state.
Although a symptom of the problem with the lack of salmon is most folk don't know the difference between a troller and a trawler. Huge difference. In a nut-shell, trollers keep the king salmon they catch and then sell them, whereas the trawlers dump theirs over the side dead. It gets better: the trawlers in the OR/WA whiting fishery and the bottom trawl fishery are allowed to keep dumping kings and the trollers have to sit in port idle since there isn't enough for both.
In Alaska, the trawlers catch much more chinook than the trollers, and again, dump them all overboard. The runs of these beautiful big salmon are so hammered by the trawlers that the few returning aren't enough for the Western Alaska Natives and the Canadian Yukon Natives to get traditional winter food.
posted by Alaskacafe at 7:52 AM
