A Summary of the Insanity we practice in "saving salmon" from the Salmonblog
You can spend your entire life being fascinated by all the things we do to "save the salmon and steelhead" or you could read the salmonblog and get a clue about what really matters. I mean, Hell people, the Constitution only requires we count the humans every 10 years, yet we count salmon every year over every dam...more
Increased Spill for better salmon returns, we had that already, they were called free flowing rivers
The Salmonblog is not amused with the incessant push to dam every river so some engineers can figure out the proper current recipe for increased salmon returns...more
Should NOAA be moved to Interior?
The Salmonblog looks at the proposed move of NOAA from the Department of Commerce to the Department of the Interior, but in the end it doesn't matter because if you force NOAA to collaborate with dam worshipers, Snake River basin wild salmon and steelhead will continue to be martyrs...more
Speak up about bad idea to scalp gravel from middle of Salmon River
The Salmonblog asks you to tell those who get to make the decision that a gravel mine in the Salmon River near White Bird is a bad idea no matter when it is proposed...more
When will we get it? Man cannot create better salmon than nature can
Recent study findings published on Hood River steelhead continue to show that hatchery supplementation programs are the wrong way for true salmon recovery...more
Idaho's streams could be salmon parks
The Salmon Blog looks at an old idea from 1892 from Livingston Stone that is still a possibility in modern day Idaho streams...more
Supplementing instead of restoring
The Salmon Blog wishes supplementation would work, but it isn't about just having fish, it's about saving wild fish...more
We apparently can mitigate for everything except for salmon recovery
The Salmon Blog wonders what would happen if we mitigated for salmon recovery...more
Sea lions: another convenient distraction from recovery
The Salmon Blog looks at the convenient distraction of a few sea lions at the base of Bonneville Dam...more
Latest bird predation numbers on juvenile salmon in the estuary out
Cormorants and terns are still eating juvenile salmon and steelhead in the estuary, a seemingly natural predation situation that was actually created by man...more
What are the enemies to salmon recovery?
The Salmon Blog looks at the primary obstacles to true Snake River salmon recovery...more
Walla Walla Editorial Shows Ignorance
The recent editorial by the Walla Walla Union Bulletin on the departure of Judge James Redden proves ignorance may be a larger obstacle than dams for salmon recovery...more
Why just remove the four Snake dams?
The Salmon Blog takes a look at the reasoning behind removing the four lower Snake River dams...more
The perils of the hatchery fish "promise"
The Salmon Blog looks at our foolish manipulations of nature and the natural order of things...more
What will the Weiser-Galloway Dam do for salmon recovery? Nothing
A dam that would help endangered salmon and steelhead, Dorothy, you're not in Kansas any...more
Wanted: Northern Pikeminnow dead...
Nov. 21, 2011...The salmon blog takes a look at the Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program, another Band Aid approach that won't recover Snake River salmon stocks...more
Historical Snake River Sockeye Runs
Nov. 20, 2011...The salmon blog takes a look at the sockeye that once came back to the Snake River basin...more
Are recent runs on the Columbia/Snake something to write home about?
Nov. 19, 2011...Compared to the accepted range of historical abundance of 10-16 million salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia/Snake, recent runs that have eclipsed 2 million fish in only two years are nothing to write home about...more
What would 2-6 SAR rate mean for SFSR?
Nov. 18, 2011...The salmonblog takes a look at what a 2-6 percent smolt to adult return rate would mean for the South Fork of the Salmon River's natural origin Chinook...more
Megaloads and salmon
Nov. 17, 2011...What do megaloads have to do with salmon? The salmonblog takes a look...more.
What should true recovery look like?
Nov. 16, 2011...In today's blog, the salmonblog looks at what recovery should look like. You should take a look at the math as the salmonblog does...more
Our Footprint in the world of salmon
Nov. 14, 2011...Ever wonder if a salmon were to recognize its parents, would a hatchery salmon imprint on a person?...more
The Truth is We'd Already Lost the Sockeye
Nov. 14, 2011...Today's reasonably good news regarding sockeye returns to Redfish Lake is the red herring that fogs the truth that we'd already lost the wild sockeye by the 1990s...more
Bird Predation on Juvenile Salmon
Nov. 14, 2011...Juvenile salmon in the Columbia River estuary have a myriad of things they have to worry about. They die from delayed mortality from passing through the hydrosystem. Sea lions come to the estuary to eat juvenile salmon, but even more damaging are the numerous bird populations that have taken advantage of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers island augmentation schemes due to dredging...more
From 1 Million, we get 10,600 back
 McCall Fish Hatchery Summer Chinook salmon smolts are flushed through a pipe from a truck to the South Fork of the Salmon River in mid-March.
Nov. 13, 2011...The 10-year mean on returning McCall hatchery summer Chinook to the South Fork of the Salmon River is 1.06 percent.
The 10-year mean for hatchery fish is 0.52 percent with a goal of 0.87 percent. Removing the four lower Snake River dams would bring Idaho's salmon back from the brink of extinction, but will that ever be seriously considered as long as we have fishing seasons and improving hatchery returns?...more Ghost runs of the North Fork of the Payette
Nov. 12, 2011...Anywhere salmon runs existed upstream of Hells Canyon Dam, the people have been impoverished. The North Fork of the Payette River runs of Chinook, steelhead and sockeye salmon deserve a proper eulogy...more
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