Why Do Salmon Migrate

Salmon- large popular game fish, liked for their pink flesh, live in sea but come to freshwater to spawn.

Now days times have changed. You can no longer enjoy the things you once could. It has become dangerous to waterski or to even enjoy a boat ride down the river due to the Asian carp. These fish are startled easily by boats, and small watercraft. They can jump ten to twelve feet out of the water causing damage to boats and injuring humans. I have heard of people getting cuts from the fins, black eyes, concussions, broken noses and jaws, and even knocked unconscious from this species of fish. Not only are these Asian Carp causing physical damage, they are wreaking havoc on the ecological system. The main concern from the Asian Carp is the dangerous effects that it is bringing to our ecosystem. As an avid fisherman, this is of great concern to me. This will not only affect me as a fisherman, but also possibly hunters, bird watchers, boaters, even jet skiers and water skiers are

With this one billion dollars, several influential tribes and states were given the opportunity to fight back. Some of the ideas put into place were, new fish hatcheries, seal lion non-lethal hazing, kelt reconditioning, evaluation and restoration projects, and conservation easements and land acquisitions. The most important of these being the fish hatcheries and the kelt reconditioning projects. The hatcheries create a whole new population of salmon that can rejuvenate and integrate with the wild salmon, while returning to the ocean as adults. The Kelt recondition project takes the middle ground out of the equation for the salmon. Groups of fisherman take the salmon from the ocean and bring them to the spawning grounds, avoiding the dams and other wildlife all together. All projects benefit the salmon and their population is slowly

Dams have arguably put the largest strain on the Chinook salmon. In Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest alone, over 55% of historical spawning habitat has been blocked off by dams (Harrison, 2008) Damn also cause rivers to slow down which in turn causes them to become warmer. This makes for a less ideal habitat for the salmon, and more ideal circumstances for the predators of the salmon. The slowing of a river can also be cause for disease( U.S.F.W.S). Also only about 1% of present

A massive threat to Alaskan salmon is the pebble mine. At the beginning of the Nushagak and Kvichak rivers in the Bristol bay area, lies the biggest salmon community in the world. If the p mine was built, it would be the 2nd largest open pit for gold/copper/molybdenum in the world.

No other place in the world offers the diversity of angling experiences that Washington does, whether it’s you are from the bank or from a boat your chances of catching a salmon is high. Beginning salmon anglers will want to focus on items at the top of the menu bar,while experienced anglers will find many useful tools closer to the bottom of the menu bar. Salmon have been recorded to weigh up to 100 pounds!The 68-year-old Les Anderson, who is part-owner of Peninsula Ford, hooked what is officially a 97 1/4-pounder, but many envious anglers realized the monster might have topped the elusive 100-pound mark when it was fresh out of the water. The biggest recorded king salmon caught by any means in Alaska was a 126-pound fish caught in a trap near Petersburg in 1949. Now the columbia river does get some of these “June Hogs” but nothing like up in the kenai river in alaska. There has been multiple fish caught out of the columbia and its tributaries have pulled out monsters from 65 pounds and

Introduction: The Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in the family Salmonidae and are a char native to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Montana and western Canada. Compared to other salmonids, bull trout have more specific habitat requirements that appear to influence their distribution and abundance (USFWS, 2015). Bull trout were historically regarded as pests due to their voracious predatory behavior. It was thought that bull trout depleted populations of “more desirable” game fish by feeding on them when they were very small thus supposedly depleting the numbers. In fact at one point there was a bounty placed on bull trout tails in Canada to encourage fisherman to rid the waters of this “Bully,” which effectively eliminated them from certain watersheds (Donald, D. B., and D. J. Alger. 1993). At one time in the early 1900’s the Bull Trout thrived in the waterways of the Northwest. The Upper Snake Recovery Unit for the Bull trout occurs within central Idaho, northern Nevada, and eastern Oregon. Major drainages include: the Salmon River, Malheur River,

In the North Pacific there are five species of salmon. Each kind of salmon is known by different names like, Chinook (king), sockeye (red), coho (silver), chum (dog), and pink (humpback). These are all valuable, but the Chinook or King Salmon were the prize of the Columbia River system. In the late 1800s about 2,500,000 cans of salmon nearly filled a cannery store and storage rooms in Astoria, Oregon. Fresh, salted, dried, and smoked were the only options for preserving and eating salmon before the spread of canning technology in the mid 1800s.

Salmon hatcheries have been operated for a variety of purposes throughout their its history in this region, from harvest augmentation, to mitigation of habitat destruction, to conservation and preservation of native populations. Despite this long history, we are only just beginning to understand how hatchery-raised fish interact with and effect wild populations of salmon. Research shows that captive-bread salmon impact wild salmon in a variety of ways, from competing with them directly for resources, to reducing the fitness of wild populations through interbreeding between wild fish and less-fit hatchery fish. These findings have serious implications for the hatchery industry, and as the focus of hatchery operation switches from augmentation

The hatchery receives thousands of tourists daily and is a large part of the tourism infrastructure of Washington and the economy. According to its website, the hatchery raises 6.6 million fall chinook, 900,000 spring chinook, 750,000 Coho, 250,000 summer steelhead and 60,000 winter steelhead. The hatchery also raises pacific salmon when adult salmon arrive at the hatchery in “September and are then sorted through before spawning begins.” There are at least “40 different species of bird to view at Bonneville Fish Hatchery,” in addition to the fish species. http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/visitors/bonneville_hatchery_more.asp The fish hatchery raises fish for the purpose of providing them for sport, commercial, and tribal fisheries. This hatchery is one of the oldest in Oregon and one of the largest in producing fish to sustain naturally produce native fish species.

While it is not entirely known how salmon manage to navigate treacherous waters to return to the place they are born, research shows that changes in the water have affected the way they perceive the world around them, and could greatly impact the way that salmon

For the Most part trout are fresh water fish, but even some of the ocean species return to fresh water to reproduce. As they are from the Salmon family you can see what is meant by that. Even our commonly associated fresh water trout such as Brown, Brook, Bull, Cut Throat and Char have taken to the oceans and thrive very well there.

The commercial fishing industry is a major source of income in my home region of Southeast Alaska accounting for about 11% of the total income to the entire region. Most of this income goes to smaller towns that rely almost entirely on the commercial fishing industry to drive their economies, and without it, these communities slowly fade away. Approximately 91% of the commercial fisheries catch is made up of salmon. Therefore, about 10% of the entire income of Southeast Alaska is reliant upon salmon alone. If you have not guessed this already, salmon are

If you are like most people, you are picturing a perfect environment where fish swim together in clear water being fed pellets by a local fish farmer in waders. This is a lie. The reality is that up to 2 million salmon are packed into tiny cages where the stressed fish desperately try to find some relief by jumping out of the water (Mercola, 2016). What is worse is that up to a quarter of the fish in any given salmon farm

Salmon are semelparous animals, meaning they only spawn once in a lifetime. The fish then quickly deteriorate and die. Not being able to adapt to the freshwater after being in the saltwater ocean for so long.