The importance of biological diversity has received increased attention over the last decades and, as the Year of Biodiversity ended at the passing of 2010 to 2011, the UN declared this decade (2011 – 2020) the decade of biodiversity. Focus on biological diversity goes beyond merely protecting and conserving species from extinction. Rather the focus is …
Category Archive: California
Mar 22
Promising California salmon forecast for 2011
In 2010, the Great Salmon Tour visited California to talk with fishermen and women of the California small boat commercial fishery. That year, after two years with the salmon fishery being closed, a token salmon fishery was allowed. With salmon fishery being the bread and butter of the small fishing communities along the California coast, …
Mar 10
Catch Shares
When I traveled to California last summer to talk with local small boat salmon fishermen, one of the issues that was continuously raised was the implementation of the catch share program. To put it bluntly, it was not very popular. One of the issues raised was that it worked against small boat salmon (and other …
Aug 17
Day 33, a day with salmon fishermen, California
Beautiful weather in San Francisco, sunny and warm. Spent the day at the Fisherman’s Wharf on a fishing boat talking with Larry Collins and his wife about salmon fishing, fishing in general, and the state of affairs here in California with the salmon fishery being closed the last few years. Larry and his wife have …
Aug 13
Day 29, a day with FWS in The Delta, California
Left early morning to join the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a day on the Sacramento River, California, during one of their frequent trawls in their long-running monitoring of salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The purpose was to experience the monitoring trawl first hand and to go on a quest to see if …