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Legacy Wild Game Fish Conservation International Wild Game Fish Conservation International (WGFCI): Established to advocate for wild game fish, their fragile ecosystems and the cultures and economies that rely on their robust populations.

LEGACY – Journal of Wild Game Fish Conservation: Complimentary, nononsense, monthly publication by conservationists for conservationists LEGACY, the WGFCI Facebook page and the WGFCI website are utilized to better equip fellow conservationists, elected officials, business owners and others regarding wild game fish, their contributions to society and the varied and complex issues impacting them and those who rely on their sustainability.

LEGACY exposes impacts to wild game fish while featuring wild game fish conservation projects, fishing adventures, wildlife art, accommodations, equipment and more. Your photos and articles featuring wild game fish from around planet earth are welcome for possible inclusion in an upcoming issue of LEGACY. E-mail them with captions and credits to Jim (wilcoxj@katewwdb.com).

Successful wild game fish conservation efforts around planet earth will ensure existence of these precious natural resources and their ecosystems for future generations to enjoy and appreciate. This is our LEGACY.

Wild Game Fish Conservation International Founders

Bruce Treichler

Jim Wilcox

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Contents WGFCI Outreach via Legacy and Facebook _________________________________________________________ 5 Conservationist Extraordinaire – Walking the Talk ___________________________________________________ 6  Shirley Samples _______________________________________________________________________________________ 6

Featured Fishing Adventures, Photos, “Funnies” and Not so Funny: __________________________________ 9  Fish for Peacock Bass on Brazil’s Aqua Boa River with host Camille Egdorf _______________________________ 9  Fly Gal Ventures Hosted Travel: New Zealand – December 2014 _________________________________________ 10

Seafood consumption: Public health risks and benefits _____________________________________________ 11    

Warning: Eating Farmed Salmon May Affect Your Baby _________________________________________________ Enjoy seasonal wild salmon dinners at these fine restaurants:___________________________________________ Organic Farm-raised Chinook Salmon – NEVER! _______________________________________________________ Sushi lover's entire body left riddled with WORMS after eating contaminated sashimi _____________________

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WGFCI: Writing to protect what needs protected ___________________________________________________ 16  Commission for Environmental Cooperation ___________________________________________________________ 16  Washington State 35th Legislative District ______________________________________________________________ 18

Community Activism, Education, Litigation and Outreach ___________________________________________ 19         

Stopping Farmed Salmon at the Cash Register _________________________________________________________ October 12 - Ocean Farmed Salmon Boycott - a Huge Success!__________________________________________ SALISH SEA MARINE SANCTUARY YOUTH COUNCIL __________________________________________________ People’s Climate March – Vancouver, BC, September 21, 2014___________________________________________ After People’s Climate March, Thousands Re-Kindle Occupy Wall Street _________________________________ Save the Baltic Salmon _______________________________________________________________________________ Wild Salmon Warrior Radio with Jay Peachy – Tuesday Mornings________________________________________ Wild Salmon Warrior Radio – Recent Archives _________________________________________________________ FISHING TECHNIQUES FOR FALL COHO ______________________________________________________________

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Salmon feedlots__________________________________________________________________________________ 32  TUC Responds to Proposed Aquaculture Activities Regulations _________________________________________ 33  Salmon Farms can have Significant Impact on Wild Salmon and Sea Trout Stocks ________________________ 34

Energy Generation: Oil, Coal, Geothermal, Hydropower, Natural Gas, Solar, Tidal, Wind _______________ 35 Petroleum – Drilled, Refined, Tar Sands, Fracked _________________________________________________________  Petropolis - Rape and pillage of Canada and Canadians for toxic bitumen ________________________________  Harper government under fire after ‘blind luck’ keeps drifting ship afloat near Haida Gwaii ________________  The oil boom in one slick infographic __________________________________________________________________  Crude oil spills into Caddo bayou, kills wildlife _________________________________________________________  Oil trains: BNSF to fund training for state’s first responders _____________________________________________ Coal ___________________________________________________________________________________________________  TransAlta Power Plant Leads State in Greenhouse Gas Pollution ________________________________________

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Hydropower ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 45  OSU study: Rivers recover fast after dam removal ______________________________________________________ 45  Large hydro dams aren’t “green” – they actually drive climate change ___________________________________ 48  Canadian government concludes Site C dam should proceed despite environmental consequences (updated) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 50  Pe Ell Meeting Addresses Potential Dam _______________________________________________________________ 53 Solar __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 56

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters Wild Game Fish Management _____________________________________________________________________ 57  OUTDOORS: West End guides commit to keeping just one chinook, ask anglers to do the same ___________ 57  Gov. Brown signs bill banning commercial production of genetically modified salmon ____________________ 59  Miramichi River salmon numbers hit record low in 2014 _________________________________________________ 60  British Columbia stonewalls on mine disaster: America take note________________________________________ 63

Wildlife Artists: __________________________________________________________________________________ 66  Derek DeYoung Art: “Dream Double 2” (SOLD) _________________________________________________________ 67  Diane Michelin - Fly Fishing Fine Art: "GET’EM" ________________________________________________________ 68  Dan Wallace: Passion for Authenticity _________________________________________________________________ 69

Conservation-minded businesses – please support these fine businesses ___________________________ 70  Kingfish West Coast Adventure Tours _________________________________________________________________ 70  Dave and Kim Egdorf's Western Alaska Sport Fishing __________________________________________________ 71  Hidden Paths - Slovenia ______________________________________________________________________________ 72    

ProFishGuide: Coastal Fishing at its Best ______________________________________________________________ Silversides Fishing Adventures _______________________________________________________________________ UWET "STAY-DRY" UNDERWATER TOURS ____________________________________________________________ Rhett Weber’s Charterboat “Slammer” _________________________________________________________________

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 Riverman Guide Service – since 1969 __________________________________________________________________ 77  Learn to fish: experienced, conservation-minded professional instructors________________________________ 78

Forward The November 2014 issue of Legacy marks thirty seven consecutive months of our complimentary eMagazine; the no-holds-barred, watchdog journal published by Wild Game Fish Conservation International.

Legacy is published each month to expose risks to the future of wild game fish and their fragile ecosystems around planet earth. This unique magazine also introduces leading edge alternatives to today’s unsustainable practices.

Each month Legacy selects wildlife artists to feature, several conservation-minded businesses to promote and several fishing photos from around planet Earth.

We continue to urge our readers to speak out passionately and to demonstrate peacefully for wild game fish and their ecosystems; ecosystems that we are but one small component of.

As recreational fishermen, conservation of wild game fish is our passion. Publishing “Legacy” each month is our self imposed responsibility to help ensure the future of these precious gifts that have been entrusted for safekeeping to our generation.

Bruce Treichler James E. Wilcox Wild Game Fish Conservation International

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WGFCI Outreach via Legacy and Facebook

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

Conservationist Extraordinaire – Walking the Talk

 Shirley Samples

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Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

Featured Fishing Adventures, Photos, “Funnies” and Not so Funny:  Fish for Peacock Bass on Brazil’s Aqua Boa River with host Camille Egdorf Base camp: Aqua Boa Amazon Lodge Dates: December 18-27. 2014 Book your Peacock Bass fishing adventure with Fishing with Larry

Est. cost: $4,000

I'm hosting another group to the Amazon in December 2014!

Who wants to join me?

Camille You can land 30 to 100+ peacock bass per day. Some will be huge. The lodge has exclusive rights to over 100miles of the Agua Boa River so you literally have an entire river to yourself.

There is a giant reserve area – birds, wildlife, no people, no mosquitoes.

There is one guide per two anglers per boat.

Includes: airport reception, all transfers in Brazil, 240-mile deluxe roundtrip flight Manaus, Brazil to lodge, lodging, daily laundry service, meals, soft drinks, beer, wine, and local liquor, fishing license, free copy of Larry’s 40-page book Fly fishing for Peacock Bass. We also supply all flies, and fly patterns. Plus, courtesy of Agua Boa Amazon Lodge - Free 8-day Global Rescue Insurance, a $119.00 value.

Does not include: international airfare, Brazilian visa, satellite telephone calls, liquor, airport taxes, overnight hotel and meals in Manaus, and tackle. (Our hosted groups usually stay together at a nicer hotel in Manaus.)

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

 Fly Gal Ventures Hosted Travel: New Zealand – December 2014

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

Seafood consumption: Public health risks and benefits

 Warning: Eating Farmed Salmon May Affect Your Baby

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

 Enjoy seasonal wild salmon dinners at these fine restaurants:

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

 Organic Farm-raised Chinook Salmon – NEVER!

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

 Sushi lover's entire body left riddled with WORMS after eating contaminated sashimi Chinese man went to his doctor with stomach ache and itchy skin. Scans revealed his entire body had been infected with tapeworm Doctors say this is due to the large amount of raw fish he had eaten. Cases such as this have increased due to the soaring popularity of sushi

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters It is the most expensive - and many would argue delicious - part of a sushi menu.

But one man's love of sashimi nearly killed him after it led to his body becoming riddled with tapeworm.

The Chinese man had gone to his doctor complaining of stomach ache and itchy skin.

To his horror, scans revealed his entire body had been infected with tapeworm after eating too much sashimi - raw slices of fish.

Doctors believe some of the uncooked Japanese delicacy of raw meat or fish must have become contaminated.

He was treated at the Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital in Guangdong Province, in eastern China.

Research has shown that eating raw or undercooked fish can lead to a variety of parasitic infections.

Tapeworm infections occur after ingesting the larvae of diphyllobothrium, found in freshwater fish such as salmon, although marinated and smoked fish can also transmit the worm.

While cases have increased in poorer areas due to improved sanitation, cases have increased in more developed countries,.

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Eating five portions of fruit and veg a day is also good for the BRAIN and helps prevent depression Young mother died from cervical cancer after visiting doctors NINE times complaining of bloating, tiredness and stomach pain - but was told she was 'too young' to have the disease What do YOUR symptoms mean? New 'calculator' tells you which condition you're most likely suffering from Overweight? Don't count on a fat pay packet: Obese teenagers earn up to 18% less than their slimmer counterparts This is most likely due to the soaring popularity of sushi, say doctors writing in the journal Canadian Family Physician.

Study author Nancy Craig wrote: 'The widespread popularity of Japanese sushi and sashimi (slices of raw fish) is a contributor.

'But other popular dishes might also be implicated, such as raw salted or marinated fillets - which originate from Baltic and Scandinavian countries - carpaccio - very thin slices of raw fish common in Italy, raw salmon and ceviche - lightly marinated fish.'

Dr Yin, of Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital, told the website that'smags.com that eating uncooked food contaminated with tapeworms' eggs could eventually cause cysticercosis, when the adult worms enters a person’s blood stream.

This type of infection is life-threatening once it reaches the brain.

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WGFCI: Writing to protect what needs protected

 Commission for Environmental Cooperation Anne Berns (United States) Lainy Destin (Canada) Rodrigo García Galindo (Mexico) Re: Vote on Factual Record for BC Salmon Farms Submittal (SEM-12-001) Editorial Comment: We at Wild Game Fish Conservation International are honored to co-sign this internationally-important letter along with concerned First Nations, scientists, other organizations and individuals On February 10, 2012, the Center for Biological Diversity (U.S.), Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society (Canada), Kwikwasu’tinuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation (Canada), and Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (U.S.) filed Submission SEM-12-001 (BC Salmon Farms) with the Secretariat of the CEC, a submission on enforcement matters pursuant to Article 14 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation On May 12, 2014 the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (“CEC”) Council responded to this submission recommending that a formal investigation be conducted into whether Canada is failing in its responsibility to NAFTA to protect wild salmon from disease and parasites from industrial salmon farms.

Article 15(2) of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation provided the commission 60 days to vote on whether to instruct the Secretariat to prepare a factual record regarding submittal SEM-12-001(BC Salmon Farms). Reporting on this vote is now 2 months overdue; in all it has been 32 months since the petition was filed.

Submission SEM-12-001 documented the Government of Canada’s failure to effectively enforce sections 35 and 36 of the federal Fisheries Act in relation to salmon aquaculture operations, allowing harmful pollutants, viruses and parasites from industrial fish farms to pollute waters used by wild salmon in British Columbia.

On May 7, 2014 the Secretariat issued a determination that it was proceeding with its consideration, pursuant to Article 15(1), in relation to the Submitters’ assertions involving section 36 (but not section 35) of the Fisheries Act. On May 12, 2014 The CEC Secretariat issued a determination that the preparation of a factual record is warranted in order to gather additional information concerning the matters raised in the submission.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters “The preparation of a factual record is therefore warranted in order to gather additional information concerning the matters raised in Submission SEM-12-001 (BC Salmon Farms), and is necessary for a thorough consideration of the assertions that Canada is failing to effectively enforce section 36 of Canada’s Fisheries Act.” The CEC Secretariat noted that in accordance with Article 15(2) and Guideline 19.4 the Council had 60 working days, that is, until 12 August, 2014, to vote on whether to instruct the Secretariat to prepare a factual record.

The CEC Secretariat specifically noted CEC Council guidelines, including target deadlines for completing various steps in the submissions process to “improve the timeliness, accessibility, and transparency of the SEM process.”

Since Submission SEM-12-001 was filed: 

More than half a million Atlantic salmon were culled and quarantined in BC due to an IHN viral outbreak.

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The Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River concluded that salmon farms have the potential for “serious or irreversible” harm to wild salmon through disease transfer. The Cohen Commission recommended a freeze on farmed salmon production along part of the Fraser sockeye migration route until 2020, at which time all farms should be removed unless Canada produces hard evidence that the farms are doing no more than minimal harm.

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Research was published reporting a Norwegian strain of piscine virus that appears to have entered BC around 2007. This virus, known to spread easily and associated with a disease that weakens the heart muscle of salmon, has been identified in nearly 100% of farmed salmon raised and sold in BC.

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In a letter to one of the petitioners, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency revealed that there had been no follow-up testing on the internationally reportable ISA virus, despite positive test results in BC farmed salmon.

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In January 2014, without any response to the Cohen Commission recommendations, Canada opened the BC coast to more salmon farms.

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Canada is considering removal of section 36 from the Fisheries Act to accommodate the salmon farmers’ need for stronger de-lousing drugs.

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In June 2014, Canada’s Aquaculture Licence was challenged in federal court to determine if it is in fact legal to give salmon farming companies the power to transfer diseased salmon into net pens in the ocean. A decision is pending.

We request that the CEC Council vote to instruct the Secretariat to prepare a factual record in this matter, as soon as possible.

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 Washington State 35th Legislative District Senator Tim Sheldon Representative Kathy Haigh Representative Drew MacEwen I’m writing as a 35th Legislative District constituent and as the co-founder of Wild Game Fish Conservation International in response to the following articles published last week in regional newspapers:   

Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024666021_chehalisfloodingxml.html Daily World: http://thedailyworld.com/news/local/debate-still-strong-over-eminent-domainwishkah-road Olympian: http://www.theolympian.com/2014/10/01/3348778_funding-for-chehalis-floodfix.html?sp=/99/224/&rh=1

These articles touch on a variety of complex topics including climate change, carbon dioxide emission reduction, statewide water bill, Washington state education funding deficiency, cap and trade, logging enforcement, etc.

I’m concerned that, if implemented, the proposed statewide water bill will do more harm than good. In fact, the costs to taxpayers will far outweigh the purported benefits. This proposed statewide water legislation was originally estimated to cost taxpayers $1.5 billion with $400,000 specified for Chehalis River basin flood damage reduction (ie Chehalis River dam). The cost of implementing this proposed legislation in its current version is estimated to be $3 billion - $4 billion.

As previously stated, the proposed Chehalis River dam is not supported by federal or state agencies, tribes, environmental organizations or concerned citizens. As such, the proposed water legislation will have little support, especially given that it’s bundled with other costly and complex legislation.

Cost effective, Chehalis River basin flood damage reduction actions shall include:  

Responsible, science-based and enforced timber management practices Responsible, science-based and enforced flood plain management practices

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Community Activism, Education, Litigation and Outreach

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 Stopping Farmed Salmon at the Cash Register

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 October 12 - Ocean Farmed Salmon Boycott - a Huge Success!

Much to the chagrin of Costco management, the formidable Fraser Valley Farmed Salmon Boycott team was in front of their store in Abbotsford to educate fellow Costco customers about the contamination levels in ocean farmed salmon products they are selling. It is unethical to do this, yet they continue, as other big box stores like Walmart, Superstore and Overweatea stores, to use Best Aquaculture Practices and Aquaculture Stewardship Certifications as rationale for selling an inferior product that is bad for the marine environment, bad for wild salmon and bad for human health. We are very pleased with the cooperation we receive from all the stores who cooperate with us, in sharp contrast to Costco. This company is on the unceded territory of the Sto:lo people and they don't listen to their members who simply want to provide information to fellow customers at Costco.

Although they were polite, they insisted that we leave before we were ready. We continued to share "What do my kids and I need to know about farmed salmon?" brochure to interested Costco customers, and drum and sing. This was a peaceful rally, and we were polite to both Costco staff and Costco customers. We will return in greater numbers as this store is uncooperative. We will create bigger signs to attract more attention, and call upon Costco to quit selling ocean farmed salmon.

I am very proud of the people who come to the rallies! Today, we are very happy to have Jessica Gilbert join us! Welcome to the big and growing team Jessica! Kai Stevenson, Tracy Lyster, Don, Terry Wilkinson, Bobbie Jackson, Gary Hagguist and Chris Gadsden! Hats off to Gary and Chris for the photography and videos they do at our rallies! Like wild salmon, we never give up! Other towns can join the boycott by going to www.farmed-salmon-boycott.com!

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Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters

 SALISH SEA MARINE SANCTUARY YOUTH COUNCIL TA'KAIYA BLANEY Ta’kaiya Blaney is a world renowned Sliammon youth environmental leader who is carrying the voice of children and youth in working with the Salish Sea Marine Sanctuary. She is also a singer-songwriter and actress, and has produced a CD “Shallow Waters,” a music video. She played the lead role in several short films about Native children being taken to residential schools.

She has spoken internationally, advocating for protection of indigenous traditional lands from the threat of extractive industries. Building on the importance of protecting Indigenous land, cultural and foods, Ta’kaiya is an Advisor to the Indigenous Research Advisory Committee for the Southwest BC Bioregional Food Systems Design and Planning Project. She has appeared in the media numerous times including CBC’s “The National,” in 2011. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and environmental events. She is an Ambassador for Native Children’s Survival. She has received Ta’Kaiya, at age 10, was a presenter TUNZA, a United Nations Children and Youth Conference on the Environment in Bandung Indonesia, a panelist the Rio+20 UN Conference on the Environment in Rio de Janeiro. She was the youngest Indigenous Youth to speak at the United Nations in New York City at The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, she addressed the ECOSOC Chamber as a panelist with Chief Orin R. Lyons.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters Due to her young age, on May 16, 2014, Ta’Kaiya received a special exception to present an intervention she had written on behalf of Native Children’s to establish an Indigenous Children's Fund in collaboration with the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. This fund would to assist in ensuring the survival and well-being of Indigenous Children and Youth in the areas of health, education, poverty, and human rights.

Ta’Kaiya writes: “I advocate changing not only the human condition, but also in the condition of our planet. In my culture it’s a fact, and an understanding of life, that everything is connected, and we were put on this earth to be stewards and caretakers of the environment.

In my culture, it’s a teaching to do more than connect the dots, to see the picture as a whole. In my song Earth Revolution, I state, 'Actions speak louder than words.'

I come from the Sliammon First Nation, on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, and I am 13 years old.

I believe that as humans, as participants and beings that walk upon this earth, it is our responsibility to help the earth. We all need to take steps towards a clean and healthy future regarding animals, humans, plants, and the various ecosystems. Our earth is our home. Over the past four years I’ve been an advocate for providing better qualities of living in Indigenous First Nations territories, and ending the oppression, racism, and corruption we face from our government and within our community.

It is our responsibility to speak for those who have no voice, to share our gifts, and to work together for our Mother Earth, giving the message of protection and change, and broadcasting to the many generations the message of love for each other and all our relations. Emote (Thank you)."

SALISH SEA MARINE SA NCTUARY YOUTH COUNCIL “Igniting the youth community to restore and protect the Salish Sea through the training, leadership and mentorship of First Nations Youth Cultural Ambassadors.”

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 People’s Climate March – Vancouver, BC, September 21, 2014

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Ta’Kaiya Blaney, a 13-year-old singer-songwriter from the Sliammon First Nation in Canada.

 After People’s Climate March, Thousands Re-Kindle Occupy Wall Street September 23, 2014

Read Entire Moyers and Company Article HERE

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 Save the Baltic Salmon Save The Baltic Salmon, we have the purpose to save the Baltic Sea and tributaries. Our goal and vision is that with the blog we created, who won the 2012 best sport fishing blog voted by Swedish people.

A collaboration with you we see as an opportunity to get our message out and make people aware and make an active choice to support biodiversity and living water. http://www.fisheco.se/news.php?modulID=2&newsID=3576

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Focus on biodiversity and the wild salmon

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Preserve them last living rivers.

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Stop exploitation of our headwaters.

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Preserve the living river valleys and mountains for future generations.

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Ban the toxins in our water.

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Ghost nets can be prevented if you have transmitters on them.

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Sediment passages in hydroelectric.

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Building clear portal for all Baltic Sea countries.

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We participate in sport fishing fair every year.

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We appoint laxhjältar for our waters.

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We manifest in demonstrations.

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We build custom fishing hiking paths for biodiversity.

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Building portal for all Baltic Sea countries! a blog for all countries, like the one we have.

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Collaborate across borders and build an international Baltic forum.

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We will work for an expanded eco-tourism industry. This contributes to local and national protection of the environment and biodiversity.

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Stop unethical export of fatty fish from the Baltic Sea.

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Teach for people equal values.

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Save the Baltic Sea.

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The target is 96 000 Baltic members in a future, 1% of the Baltic members.

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Parliamentary influence future decisions.

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Europe more influence future decisions.

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Equal rules for fishing in the Baltic Sea.

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We are responsible for the seven generations to come and should be animal and nature's guardian under the surface.

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Helping countries around the Baltic Sea with their work for our common resource.

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Help build up the Baltic Centre, which could eventually be built in all Member States.

http://savethebaltic.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/jantelagen-2014fiskvandringsvagar/ http://savethebaltic.wordpress.com/category/mr-mrs-save-the-baltic-salmon/

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 Wild Salmon Warrior Radio with Jay Peachy – Tuesday Mornings “Streaming like wild Pacific salmon” http://wildsalmonwarriorradio.org/

CJSF 90.1 FM is Simon Fraser University's arts, public affairs and indie music radio station!

CJSF strives to provide points of view that are rarely expressed in mainstream media.

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 Wild Salmon Warrior Radio – Recent Archives September 23, 2014: September 30, 2014: October 7, 2014: October 21, 2014:

Wood Fiber LNG Kinder Morgan Evictions “Don’t Give UP” GE Salmon, Cohen update, Aquaculture regulation

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OLYMPIA CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED October 22, 2014 7:00PM NORTH OLYMPIA FIRE STATION 5046 BOSTON HARBOR ROAD NE

 FISHING TECHNIQUES FOR FALL COHO

The public is invited to attend the October 22nd meeting of the Olympia Chapter of Trout Unlimited for a presentation by Terry Wiest on Fishing Techniques for Fall Coho. With his vast experience on fishing for silvers and other salmon species, he considers himself very knowledgeable on this subject. He has taught and demonstrated his techniques at numerous seminars the Pacific Northwest. Terry’s presentation on Fishing Techniques for Fall Coho will include drift fishing, float fishing, twitching, spinners and more. Be sure and attend to find out how to catch the great Coho using these new techniques. If these methods are new to you, or you would like to be more successful using them, come to the meeting and get all your questions answered.

Join us for light refreshments and a fabulous raffle.

Bio: Terry Wiest Terry Wiest has over 37 years of experience fishing for salmon and steelhead and has the natural ability to teach people how to catch more fish, whether it be in writing or speaking at seminars. Terry has published numerous magazine articles, mostly on salmon and steelhead, but also on his many adventures around the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska. He has also contributed to the book “Pro Tactics for Salmon and Steelhead”. Terry writes a bi-monthly column, “Westside”, for Northwest Sportsman Magazine, and a featured writer for Salmon, Trout, Steelheader. Since 2008, Terry has been the Webmaster and Chief Instructor for Salmon University, the largest salmon fishing website on the West Coast. Terry also hosts and serves as Chief Instructor for Steelhead University. Terry’s first book—“Steelhead University: Your Guide to Salmon and Steelhead Success was published in late 2012.

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Salmon feedlots

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 TUC Responds to Proposed Aquaculture Activities Regulations On October 3, 2014 the Department of Fisheries and Oceans provided proposed regulation changes and amendments to the Aquaculture Activities Regulations (Please click here to read the proposed changes). Trout Unlimited Canada, along with other conservation organizations is concerned with these changes and the long term effects fish farming has Canada's coldwater ecosystems.

Upon reviewing the proposed regulations, TUC is concerned that Canada's aquatic resources may be compromised due to: 

Loss of accuracy and diligence with a change to self-reporting

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Lack of inspections

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Lack of assessments regarding cumulative impacts on receiving waters

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Delayed reporting

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Industry self-regulation

TUC understands the need for an efficient process for both government and industry, but stresses that the protection of the natural water is of the utmost importance. The long term health and stability of Canada’s natural ecosystems are critical to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

TUC is concerned that the proposed change to industry self-regulation puts sustainability of the wild fisheries and their habitats at risk. Trout Unlimited Canada has asked on behalf of its chapters, members, supporters and volunteers for clarity on how DFO will balance private economic gain against the protection of Canadian resources TUC urges all chapters, members, supporters and volunteers to submit their own comments to D.F.O. no later than October 22, 2014 by email or by fax to 613-993-8607 or by mail to:

Department of Fisheries and Oceans C/O Ed Porter Manager, Aquaculture Policy and Regulatory Initiatives 200 Kent Street, Room 8N187 Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E6.

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 Salmon

Farms can have Significant Impact on Wild Salmon and Sea Trout

Stocks September 18, 2014 The Chairman and Board of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) have today (18.09.14) welcomed a definitive review of over 300 scientific publications, which has just been published, on the effects sea lice can have on sea trout stocks. A team of top international scientists from Norway, Scotland and Ireland reviewed all available published studies on the effects of sea lice and have now concluded that sea lice have negatively impacted wild sea trout stocks in salmon farming areas in Ireland, Scotland and Norway.

Previously research was based on individually published studies but this new review reached its conclusions based on comprehensive studies of the effects of salmon lice from over 300 scientific publications. The project was funded by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund which provides investment in Norwegian seafood industry-based R&D with the objective of creating added value for the seafood industry.

The study also examined the potential effect of sea lice on salmon and concluded that sea lice have a potential significant and detrimental effect on marine survival of Atlantic salmon with potentially 1244% fewer salmon spawning in salmon farming areas. Chairman Brendan O’Mahony commented, “These conclusions concur with previously published Inland Fisheries Ireland research on the potential impact of sea lice from marine salmon farms on salmon survival.”

The studies reviewed indicate that salmon farming increases the abundance of lice in marine habitats and that sea lice in intensively farmed areas have negatively impacted wild sea trout populations.

The effects of sea lice on sea trout are increased marine mortality and reduced marine growth. This new study confirms the evidence collected since the early 1990’s in Ireland regarding the impact of sea lice on wild sea trout stocks, particularly in relation to the collapse of Connemara’s sea trout stocks. The Board of IFI has consistently called for marine salmon farms to maintain sea lice levels close to zero prior to and during the wild sea trout and salmon smolt migration period in spring. IFI has also raised concerns regarding the location of salmon farms in the estuaries of salmon and sea trout rivers.

The Board of IFI believes this new review confirms the need for very tight regulation of sea lice levels on salmon farms and raises legitimate concerns with regard to the potential impact of new, large scale salmon farms, proposed along Ireland’s west coast, on salmon and sea trout stocks.

Regulators will now need to consider the results of this comprehensive review when making decisions on the sustainability and approval of future marine salmon aquaculture licences and the regulation of sea lice at existing sites so as to ensure no negative impact on salmon and sea trout stocks.

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Energy Generation: Oil, Coal, Geothermal, Hydropower, Natural Gas, Solar, Tidal, Wind

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Petroleum – Drilled, Refined, Tar Sands, Fracked

 Petropolis - Rape and pillage of Canada and Canadians for toxic bitumen Watch video HERE

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 Harper government under fire after ‘blind luck’ keeps drifting ship afloat near Haida Gwaii October 21, 2014 OTTAWA - B.C.’s northern coast dodged a bullet this week when a disabled cargo ship drifted dangerously close to the shores of Haida Gwaii, opposition critics charged Monday in the House of Commons.

The Russian-flagged Simushir has been safely towed to Prince Rupert by a commercial U.S. tug but New Democrats and Liberals say the incident doesn’t bode well for a dramatic increase in supertankers plying the same waters.

NDP finance critic Nathan Cullen demanded in the Commons to know whether the Conservative government is comfortable with a marine safety plan he said is based on “blind luck” and American intervention.

Fisheries Minister Gail Shea responded that “luck had nothing to do with the situation.”

Shea thanked the Canadian Coast Guard, which took just under 14 hours to reach the disabled ship, and noted the Conservatives have promised a $6.8 billion shipbuilding program for the future.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters Cullen says a truly grateful government wouldn’t have cut the coast guard budget by $20 million and let go 300 personnel.

A Canadian Coast Guard vessel that first reached the Simushir had its tow line break three times in stormy seas, but did manage to move the disabled ship away from the marine sanctuary off the Haida Gwaii islands.

The Fisheries minister repeatedly stressed that the Simushir had become disabled in international waters.

“The private sector provides towing service to the marine industry but we are grateful that the Canadian Coast Guard was able to keep the situation under control, which was in very difficult conditions, until the (U.S.) tug arrived from Prince Rupert,” said Shea.

According to the U.S. company, the tug Barbara Foss usually tows a cargo barge between Prince Rupert and Whittier, Alaska, and was arriving back in Rupert when the Simushir call came in. It dropped its barge and headed out to aid the stricken vessel, a trip that took it almost two days.

“Foss left soon after getting the call and travelled as fast and as safely as they could in poor weather conditions,” company spokeswoman Megan Aukema said in an email.

Mary Polak, B.C.’s environment minister, was less reassuring about how the incident played out than her federal counterpart in Ottawa.

“We’ve said that there is more that needs to be done on our West Coast, we know that, we’ve said that from the beginning and it’s been a consistent position of ours, we continue to hold that view,” Polak said at the B.C. legislature in Victoria.

“This incident underlines the fact that we need to do more on our West Coast to be prepared.”

The Conservatives have conditionally approved a plan by Enbridge to build the Northern Gateway pipeline to Kitimat, B.C., which will send hundreds of supertankers annually down the same stormtossed coast. Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline to Vancouver, and a proposed LNG plant in the province, would further increase marine traffic.

Cullen, who represents a northern B.C. riding, demanded to know how anyone can back a “government plan to put hundreds of oil supertankers off the B.C. coast when we don’t even have the capacity to protect ourselves right now?”

Liberal MP Joyce Murray said the lesson from the incident is that “we cannot ever say that a major oil spill will not occur on the coast of British Columbia.”

The Vancouver MP called it “pathetic” that Shea repeatedly cited future ship building, given the government’s record on major military and naval procurement projects.

Cullen maintains that only good fortune prevented a disaster before help could arrive. Local fishermen say the usual wind patterns following storms in the region are westerlies.

“If that had happened like it normally does, that ship would have run aground and we’d be having a very different conversation this morning,” said Cullen.

“If dodging a bullet doesn’t wake you up, I don’t know what will. It’s important for Canadians to understand how close this was.”

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Workers clean up the 4,000 barrels of crude oil that spilled in Tete Bayou. Sunoco Logistics, operator of the Mid-Valley Pipeline, has responded with more than 250 personnel to the site to contain and recover the oil, which entered Tete Bayou but did not reach Caddo Lake

 Crude oil spills into Caddo bayou, kills wildlife October 18, 2014

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters MOORINGSPORT – A major crude oil spill discovered near here Monday that stopped just shy of Caddo Lake has already killed dozens of fish and some reptiles and will keep cleanup crews and regulatory agencies on site likely for months to come.

"I would call it a significant size spill," Bill Rhotenberry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's federal on-scene coordinator said of the oil that leaked in a rural Caddo Parish bayou from a MidValley Pipeline.

The pipeline's owner, Sunoco Logistics, roughly estimated 4,000 barrels of crude oil had flowed into Tete Bayou when control operators noticed a drop in pressure around 8 a.m. Monday. The line, stretching 1,000 miles from Longview, Texas, to major oil refineries in Ohio and Michigan, was shut down within 20 minutes, Sunoco spokesman Jeff Shields said.

Shortly before noon, contractors searching from air and by foot tracked the source of the leak and began immediate efforts to stop if from getting into Caddo Lake. "That was a priority," Shields said.

No oil sheens have been detected on the lake, but it will be monitored by air and boat as the cleanup continues.

The spill area off Hereford Road, which dead ends at the lake, is sparsely inhabited where workers are concentrating their efforts. Evacuations were not ordered; however, three families voluntarily left.

Sunoco is paying their expenses for the duration of the time they want to be away from their homes.

The company has approximately 250 contractors on scene mopping up the spilled crude. To work in the area, the contractors must wear flame retardant clothing, hard hats, safety goggles and respirators.

The pungent odor of oil fills the air closer to the work site. Air monitors are spaced throughout the heavily wooded area and readings are taken to make sure the volatile organic contaminants, or VOCs, do not reach a certain level to where it would cause a health risk. EPA is monitoring the air quality independent of Sunoco.

"The only risk of VOCs is in the immediate area of the oil," Rhotenberry said. "Out of the spill's pathway it's not as much of an issue." Readings have been low so far.

Shields estimates about 1,900 barrels of crude had been recovered from the bayou through Saturday. Neither he nor Rhotenberry could offer a timeline for full removal, other than said it will take months. A spill from the same pipeline in March in Cincinnati is still in the remediation phase.

Once the majority of the oil is removed then the focus will turn to remediation and restoration. Jeffrey Meyers, spill response specialist with the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office, said the timeconsuming task moving forward will be to locate the pockets of residual oil that can become trapped in the soil and even in crawfish holes.

"After we get the black up we'll be looking for the sheen," Meyers said.

Natural bacteria aids in eating the oil but it's not as effective in the fall and winter months. So the maintenance phase will include constant placement and exchange of oil-absorbing materials.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters It will take a joint effort of Louisiana Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the oil spill coordinator's office and the Louisiana Department of Environment Quality to keep an eye on the area long term.

Trees, vegetation and wildlife in a neighboring bayou will be used as a baseline to determine if Tete Bayou is showing any unusual signs of damage. Through Saturday, the spill has proven deadly to about 66 animals, Shields said, including 30 fish, crawfish and 10 reptiles. A wood duck was rescued and is in the hands of a wildlife specialist that will stay on scene to assist with animal rehabilitation needs.

Sunoco "understands its obligations well and understands it is liable for the cost," Shields said.

The U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration regulates pipeline spills and will oversee the investigation into how the leak occurred and if any action will be taken against Sonoco.

The line was built in 1949-50.

For the short term and long term Sonoco will have to mitigate, Meyers said. "Nobody is walking away from this so to speak."

Fortunately, the weather is cooperating. Heavy rains or warmer temperatures would only add to the cleanup woes by increasing the harmful vapors.

In the meantime, travel on Hereford Road has limited access as workers are moving around in ATVs, pickups and large trucks from the bridge to a staging area. Louisiana State Police Troop G spokesman Matt Harris also cautions hunters to stay away because of the number of people who are working in the woods.

"It's a safety concern, also because of their equipment," he said.

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 Oil trains: BNSF to fund training for state’s first responders BNSF Railway will pay for training Washington state firefighters to respond to any mishaps in crude-oil shipments.

September 23, 2014 BNSF Railway is paying for 142 Washington firefighters to attend specialized training in Pueblo, Colo., to help them prepare for any mishaps involving crude oil shipped by train.

Those classes began in July and will continue through the end of the year. This represents a steppedup training effort by BNSF Railway at a time of increased shipments of crude oil through the region, which have raised safety concerns about oil spills or fires in the event of a derailment.

BNSF will also provide hazardous-materials training for some 600 Washington first responders by early October, and for 800 by the end of the year, according to Gus Melonas, a BNSF spokesman.

Earlier this year, BNSF reported that as many as 19 trains of crude oil from the Bakken fields in North Dakota had moved through Washington in a single week. Gov. Jay Inslee directed state agencies to examine the risks of accidents along the rail lines.

Rail safety also has drawn the attention of Congress. U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Lake Stevens, said Tuesday that he is pushing the U.S. Transportation Department to raise the standards on railcars that carry crude to get the most dangerous ones off the tracks.

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How may train loads of diluted bitumen (dilbit) from Alberta’s Tarsands will travel on these rail lines?

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Will resources (specialized equipment, trained personnel and finances) be available when oil train accidents occur?

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Coal

 TransAlta Power Plant Leads State in Greenhouse Gas Pollution October 16, 2014

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state's major industrial sources released about 6 million more metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2013, a 30 percent jump from the previous year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The state's only coal burning power plant in Centralia topped the list, emitting 7.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. Emissions from the plant spiked up about 82 percent from 2012, after experiencing a big drop the previous year.

TransAlta spokeswoman Leanne Yohemas said in an email that carbon dioxide emissions at the company's Centralia plant were substantially below normal levels in 2012, which explains the increase. In that year, she said, hydropower production was running high in the Northwest and the Centralia plant also experienced "extended downtime" as a result of poor market conditions driven by low natural gas prices.

Yohemas said the plant's emissions in 2013 were closer to normal levels and reduced from prior years.

The Centralia power plant, the single largest source of carbon pollution in the state, is scheduled to completely shut down by 2025 under a state law passed in 2011.

Facilities that release 25,000 metric tons or more of carbon dioxide or its equivalent are required to report emissions to the EPA each year. The federal agency has collected such data for four years.

Last year in Washington state, 92 large facilities such as power plants, pulp and paper mills and steel mills released a total of 25.7 million metric tons of greenhouse gases, compared with 19.6 million metric tons in 2012. Total emissions from reporting facilities increased about 18 percent between 2011 and 2013.

The state's 14 power plants accounted for about 46 percent of that pollution. Many of them also reported some of the largest emission hikes between 2012 and 2013.

Puget Sound Energy's generating stations in Ferndale, Bellingham and near Mount Vernon, for example, more than doubled in emissions last year, after posting previous declines.

PSE spokesman Ray Lane said the utility reported much lower emissions in 2011 and 2012 because hydropower operations were running high, well beyond normal levels. When hydroelectric power is up, emissions are low, he said.

"We're currently running at more normal levels, which are similar to the figures seen in 2013," Lane said in an email.

BP's Cherry Point Refinery was the second-highest single source of emissions in the state. It was followed by Shell Puget Sound Refinery in Anacortes, Alcoa Intalco Works in Ferndale, Tesoro Refinery in Anacortes, Phillips 66 refinery in Ferndale, Berkshire Hathaway's Chehalis Generation plant, Clark Public Utilities River Road plant in Vancouver, and Puget Sound Energy's Mint Farm power plant in Longview, Wash.

A Washington state law requires facilities that emit more than 10,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases per year to report their pollution to the state Department of Ecology. Those sources have reported their 2012 emissions to the Department of Ecology. Reports for 2013 emissions are due later this month.

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Hydropower

Workers dismantle the Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River in southern Oregon

 OSU study: Rivers recover fast after dam removal Researchers examined Rogue, Calapooia Rivers October 8, 2014

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters A study of the removal of two dams in Oregon suggests that rivers can return surprisingly fast to a condition close to their natural state, both physically and biologically, and that the biological recovery might outpace the physical recovery, Oregon State University reported Wednesday.

The analysis, published by researchers from OSU in the journal PLOS One, examined portions of two rivers – the Calapooia River and Rogue River. It illustrated how rapidly rivers can recover, both from the long-term impact of the dam and from the short-term impact of releasing stored sediment when the dam is removed.

Most dams have decades of accumulated sediment behind them, and a primary concern has been whether the sudden release of all that sediment could cause significant damage to river ecology or infrastructure.

However, this study concluded that the continued presence of a dam on the river constituted more of a sustained and significant alteration of river status than did the sediment pulse caused by dam removal.

“The processes of ecological and physical recovery of river systems following dam removal are important, because thousands of dams are being removed all over the world,” said Desirée Tullos, an associate professor in the OSU Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering.

“Dams are a significant element in our nation’s aging infrastructure,” she said. “In many cases, the dams haven’t been adequately maintained and they are literally falling apart. Depending on the benefits provided by the dam, it’s often cheaper to remove them than to repair them.”

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the United States has 84,000 dams with an average age of 52 years. Almost 2,000 are now considered both deficient and “high hazard,” and it would take $21 billion to repair them. Rehabilitating all dams would cost $57 billion. Thus, the removal of older dams that generate only modest benefits is happening at an increasing rate.

In this study, the scientists examined the two rivers both before and after removal of the Brownsville Dam on the Calapooia River and the Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River. Within about one year after dam removal, the river ecology at both sites, as assessed by aquatic insect populations, was similar to the conditions upstream where there had been no dam impact.

Recovery of the physical structure of the river took a little longer. Following dam removal, some river pools downstream weren’t as deep as they used to be, some bars became thicker and larger, and the grain size of river beds changed. But those geomorphic changes diminished quickly as periodic floods flushed the river system, scientists said.

Within about two years, surveys indicated that the river was returning to the pre-removal structure, indicating that the impacts of the sediment released with dam removal were temporary and didn’t appear to do any long-term damage.

Instead, it was the presence of the dam that appeared to have the most persistent impact on the river biology and structure – what scientists call a “press” disturbance that will remain in place so long as the dam is there.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters This press disturbance of dams can increase water temperatures, change sediment flow, and alter the types of fish, plants and insects that live in portions of rivers. But the river also recovered rapidly from those impacts once the dam was gone.

It’s likely, the researchers said, that the rapid recovery found at these sites will mirror recovery on rivers with much larger dams, but more studies are needed.

For example, large scale and rapid changes are now taking place on the Elwha River in Washington state, following the largest dam removal project in the world. The ecological recovery there appears to be occurring rapidly as well. In 2014, Chinook salmon were observed in the area formerly occupied by one of the reservoirs, the first salmon to see that spot in 102 years.

“Disturbance is a natural river process,” Tullos said. “In the end, most of these large pulses of sediment aren’t that big of a deal, and there’s often no need to panic. The most surprising finding to us was that indicators of the biological recovery appeared to happen faster than our indicators of the physical recovery.”

The rates of recovery will vary across sites, though. Rivers with steeper gradients, more energetic flow patterns, and non-cohesive sediments will recover more quickly than flatter rivers with cohesive sediments, researchers said.

This research was supported by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and the National Marine Fisheries Service. It was a collaboration of researchers from the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Engineering, and College of Science.

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BC’s WAC Bennett Dam (Photo: Damien Gillis)

 Large hydro dams aren’t “green” – they actually drive climate change September 23, 2014 Read this August 14 EcoWatch column by Gary Wockner, which explodes the myth of “green” hydro dams – food for thought as Canada considers building Site C Dam atop some of the country’s best farmland.

People believe hydroelectric dams provide clean energy. It’s not true.

I don’t blame the public or the media for making this false claim—I’ve heard it come out of the mouth of the biggest dam operator in the Southwest U.S. (see CRWUA presentation, Dec. 2013, slide 13), and the media often repeats it (see E&E article June 30). Unfortunately, it was further repeated in a horribly misguided “study” put out by the U.S. Dept of Energy in April.

But when I heard it quoted three months ago in this May 12 New Yorker story out of the mouth of Mark Tercek who is CEO of The Nature Conservancy to rationalize his organization’s support of new dams in Columbia, I knew it’s time to once-again address this disastrous myth.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters Tercek is quoted as saying: “Environmentalists generally hate dams, even though they’re clean energy.”

Dams are not “clean energy.” Dams are, in fact, causing climate change. A growing body of science is studying just how bad dams are. Here are the issues:

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Organic material—vegetation, sediment and soil—flows from rivers into reservoirs and decomposes emitting methane and carbon dioxide into the water and then the air throughout the hydro-electric generation cycle. Studies indicate that where organic material is the highest (in the tropics or in high sediment areas) hydro-electric dams can actually emit more greenhouse gases than coal-fired powerplants. (See this report from International Rivers, this peer-reviewed article reported in Science Daily, this news report on Nature World News and this report about the Belo Monte dam). These methane emissions are not limited to tropical areas; they occur in the U.S. too. “Methane springs” are widely reported on the mud flats of Lake Powell which is a reservoir behind Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River (Living Rivers, slide 41), and “trains” of “methane bubbles” have been reported floating on Lake Powell (High Country News, page 5, May 17, 2011). As far back as 1948, the U.S. Geological Survey examined what they then called “gas pits” in the mud flats of Lake Mead which is a reservoir behind Hoover Dam on the Colorado River (USGS, page 162 and 180).

As a real conversation ender, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research estimates that “dams are the largest single [human-caused] source of methane, being responsible for 23 percent of all methane emissions due to human activities.”

Large dams contain enormous amounts of cement which during the construction process uses massive amounts of energy that emits greenhouse gas emissions. For one medium-sized dam project proposed for the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado, it is estimated that the construction would emit 218,000 metric tons CO2-equivalents which equals the emissions from almost 46,000 automobiles on the road for one year. Larger dams, such as Hoover Dam which contains 4.36 million cubic yards of concrete, would have exponentially higher climate change impacts from construction. The largest hydro-electric dam on the planet—the Three Gorges Dam in China—contains 27.15 million cubic meters of cement.

Dams that divert water out of rivers may have significant additional climate change impacts because they drain and dry up downstream wetlands that are “carbon sinks” holding vast amounts of greenhouse gases in soils. This draining and dry-up causes carbon and methane to be released and emitted into the air. A proposal for a dam on the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado would dry up 1,700 acres of wetlands thus emitting about 7,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalents. As just one more example, when the Colorado River was diverted and drained, the dams and diversions dried up about 2 million acres of wetlands in the former Colorado River Delta—the climate change impact of destroying those wetlands was likely staggering.

Some dams, like the proposed massive ecosystem-wide Belo Monte dams on the Amazon River in Brazil, also include massive deforestation plans on areas that will be flooded by behind the reservoirs. The deforestation itself would release enormous amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Peace River islands, valley and farms would be covered with water if BC Hydro gets to build the site C dam near Fort St. John

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government concludes Site C dam should proceed despite environmental consequences (updated) Meanwhile, the B.C. government approves environmental certificate for Site C dam October 14, 2014

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters BC Hydro’s planned $7.9-billion Site C dam on the Peace River passed two governmental hurdles Tuesday, meaning construction could begin in January.

The federal government announced that the 1,100-megawatt dam should proceed, with conditions, despite the likelihood of “significant adverse environmental effects.”

The fate of the controversial megaproject now rests with the province, which has supported the dam from the start. A cabinet decision is expected within weeks.

In announcing Ottawa’s decision, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq said that environmental damages “are justified in the circumstances” due to the considerable economic impact in northeast B.C. Noting BC Hydro must fulfill more than 80 “legally binding conditions” throughout the life of the project, Aglukkaq said Site C will provide a source of “clean, renewable energy over the next 100 years” and will create about 10,000 direct person-years of employment through 2024.

“The Site C project ... underwent a thorough independent federal-provincial review by an independent panel,” she added in a press release.

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“Lost agricultural lands and activities”

You Can’t Eat Money!

“The environmental assessment process provided the scientific and technical expertise and the effective engagement of the public and aboriginal groups to enable an informed decision by both governments.”

Mary Polak, the B.C. environment minister, and Steve Thomson, minister of forests, lands and natural resource operations, also announced Tuesday that they had issued an environmental assessment certificate to BC Hydro, with 77 conditions. They include a $20-million compensation fund for lost agricultural lands and activities, the development of an aboriginal business participation plan, and protocols to reduce harm to wildlife and its habitat.

BC Hydro spokesman Dave Conway said the Crown corporation is pleased with Tuesday’s government decisions. He said the federal and provincial conditions for the project appear to be similar and Hydro expects “we could meet those conditions.”

Should Hydro receive “financial investment” approval from the province this fall, as well as required federal fisheries and navigable waters authorizations, site preparation work could begin as early as January, Conway said. Construction is expected to take eight years.

Andrea Morison, coordinator of the Peace Valley Environment Association, said she is disappointed by the federal government decision, but said that pressure would now ramp up on the provincial cabinet to reject the project.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters “We don’t see it as a fait accompli,” she said. “This project is not in the interest of British Columbians.

It’s not something we need.”

The joint review panel described Site C in May as the best and cheapest alternative for new energy in the province, but said the Crown corporation had not proven that the project should proceed at this time.

The panel recommended the B.C. Utilities Commission, which ruled in 1983 that Site C was not needed, look at the issue of need. But the province has rejected that suggestion.

Morison noted that Treaty 8 First Nations in the Peace River have repeatedly warned they will resort to legal action to stop the project. “They have every intention of taking them to court on this if cabinet does decide to approve the project. We’ll be backing them up.”

Last month, First Nations told the provincial government it could have either the Site C dam or liquefied natural gas from the northeast, but not both.

Chief Roland Willson of the West Moberly First Nation said a recent decision from the Supreme Court of Canada has bolstered their say in any industrial development on that land. “If you want to push Site C, we’re not going to be in favour of any LNG projects, any of the pipeline projects up there.”

In a brief news conference Tuesday, Polak said she believed there had been adequate consultation with aboriginal groups.

Polak said the government has yet to decide to go ahead with the project.

“Government, broadly, still needs to make a decision with respect to a final investment decision,” she said.

Paul Kariya, executive director of Clean Energy BC, said independent power producers “offer a robust, cost-effective alternative” to “adding another $8 billion of public debt” for Site C. During the panel hearings, however, BC Hydro stated: “Intermittent resources such as wind and runof-river provide little dependable capacity.”

At 1,050 metres long and 60 metres high, the dam would flood 83 kilometres of the Peace River Valley from approximately Fort St. John to Hudson’s Hope.

Site C is downstream of the W.A.C. Bennett and Peace Canyon dams and would also flood 14 kilometres of the Halfway River, 10 kilometres of the Moberly River, eight kilometres of Cache Creek, three kilometres of Farrell Creek and one kilometre of Lynx Creek.

BC Hydro says about 5,550 hectares of land would be submerged, including the loss of about 3,800 hectares of land capable of agricultural production.

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 Pe Ell Meeting Addresses Potential Dam Community Input: Attendants Voice Opinions on Water Retention Facility on Chehalis River October 16, 2014 Tensions ran high and residents filled the Pe Ell School’s small gymnasium Tuesday during a presentation that depicted a strategy for reducing flood damage and restoring aquatic life in the Chehalis River Basin.

The highly contentious topic that filled the gymnasium to standing room only was the possibility of a dam that may be built near Pe Ell. Jim Kramer, project manager for the research conducted by the William D. Ruckelshaus Center, presented information to those in attendance on the history of flood damage in the area, and the habitat degradation taking place affecting salmon.

“There has been a lot of information produced in the last couple of years and this is a brief summary of that information with the focus for the end part of the presentation on the specifics of the potential dam that is being considered upstream from the town of Pe Ell,” Kramer said.

There are three possibilities to the types of dam that may potentially be built. If the decision to build a dam is approved by Gov. Jay Inslee, options are a flood retention dam, a multi-purpose dam or a multipurpose rockfill dam.

Kramer said the problem is the Chehalis Basin continues to see large floods with little to no action preventing future damage.

“You can see the trend … is that the five largest floods in the historical record of the basin have occurred in the last 25 years or so,” he said, adding that the increasing magnitude of floods is changing the prediction of what the largest floods in the basin are likely to be in the future.

With the prediction of future climate change, the range of possible changes in the magnitude of floods is anywhere from an 18 to 90 percent increase in the size of floods predicted in the basin.

Not only is the basin plagued with flooding, but in recent years a significant decline in salmon populations and other species has been noted, said Kramer. He said it is a problem that needs to be addressed.

Editorial Comment: Many who rely on Chehalis River basin flooding rightly believe that flooding is a blessing, not a plague, as Chehalis River floods deliver vital nutrients to fertile farmlands and replenish aquifers.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters There is potential to increase salmon populations by 50 percent through habitat restoration actions that would include the removal of barriers to fish passage and would reap the benefits of riparian enhancement, Kramer said.

The discussion is timely because the Governor’s Chehalis Basin Work Group, a sub-group of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority, is tasked with providing the governor a recommendation for a long-term strategy and budget that will help reduce flood damage and enhance aquatic species. The recommendations are due by mid-November.

A variety of options were presented to reduce flooding, some of which proved cost prohibitive, such as protecting Interstate 5 with walls and levees. Flood proofing was found to be one of the most costeffective measures that could be taken, although Kramer said the question remains of whether it would be a sufficient enough action.

The objectives of a potential dam were listed as providing a reduction to flooding downstream, while minimizing fish and downstream environmental impacts.

The smallest of the dams, the flood retention only dam would have a height of 227 feet and the reservoir would stretch almost 7 miles, covering an area of 860 acres. This dam would only hold water at times of flooding, creating a reservoir only 1 percent of the time based on the historic record.

The dam would cost $300 million to build.

The multipurpose dam would be 60 feet taller. The reservoir would be almost a mile longer and would cover an extra 500 acres, but would also store water during the winter months, slowly releasing it in the spring and summer.

A multipurpose rockfill dam has a much larger footprint and would have to include a separate bypass structure, Kramer said.

The potential dam would help reduce flooding, although he said it is important to note that it would not eliminate flooding. A dam would decrease fish populations by a total of 2 percent; however, if a dam was combined with a high level of restoration, populations of returning adult salmon would increase by 42 percent, Kramer said.

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With no effective fish passage designed for these proposed dams, salmon and steelhead that rely on upper Chehalis River spawning and rearing habitat will be forever lost.

Participants at the meeting both supported and opposed the proposed dam.

“One thing to say, which is concerning to the people who live in Pe Ell, which is part of this whole process, that for us to wake up every morning and look south and see a big concrete structure, a rock structure, whatever you got that is holding that river back from inundating us, I think that everyone else downstream ought to give us a little bit,” one audience member said.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters “How are you going to help us? How does this dam help the people who live in the city of Pe Ell, but have never been affected by this?

That is my major issue.”

Other audience members noted the large cost of the project would be better spent on funding education instead.

While some opposed the idea of a dam, many spoke out in support of the ongoing research into the possibility.

“I don’t want to lose my property to a flood, but there are ways to save our livelihood, our children’s future and our property,” said one attendee. “Why wouldn’t we explore those opportunities?”

If a dam is approved, the permit process from both the state and federal government would take approximately three to five years at a minimum, and the construction of the dam, depending on the type, would take another two to four years.

Editorial Comment: These time estimates don’t take funding, tribal opposition, conservationist opposition, litigation, etc. into consideration

Kramer said next month’s recommendations will be provided by the work group to the governor and all the comments voiced in the meeting would be considered before a decision is made.

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 OUTDOORS: West End guides commit to keeping just one chinook, ask anglers to do the same October 10, 2014 A BROAD-BASED consortium of fishing guides, West End hospitality businesses and others in the sport fishing industry are pledging to take matters regarding chinook retention into their own hands.

The Olympic Peninsula Guides Association on Tuesday adopted an agreement to limit clients to the retention of one chinook during guided river fishing outings.

Members of the Northwest Olympic Peninsula Sport Fishing Coalition also are endorsing the move.

Association and coalition members also are putting their pledge out to guides that aren’t members of their groups, as well as recreational anglers, in a bid to bolster low chinook stocks on West End rivers ranging from the Clearwater, the Hoh and up to the Quileute River system, which encompasses the Bogachiel, Dickey, Sol Duc and Calawah rivers.

A letter explaining the decision and a pledge form will be available at the Forks Thriftway/Forks Outfitters by this weekend and those who fish out west also can send a message to the association’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/opgaforks.

Current rules allow for recreational anglers to keep two adult chinook in season, and allow for a daily limit of six total salmon on the majority of these rivers.

Bob Kratzer, a member of the guide association and president of the coalition, says that members of the two groups feel this limit puts fish stocks in an unsustainable position and ultimately could cause widespread damage to chinook populations.

“Basically, I’ve been guiding out on these rivers for 30 years,” Kratzer said.

“We’ve seen a drastic decline in the fall king numbers. It’s just been going downhill for years.

“In about the past five years especially, we’ve been telling the state [Department of Fish and Wildlife] we are worried about them and that something needs to be done.”

It boils down, Kratzer said, that anglers don’t need to be taking this many chinook from population stocks that the experienced fishers know to be troubled.

“It’s a statement to the state that we are worried,” Kratzer said.

“We are seeing things that we think should require us to make proactive steps as a conservation measure to protect future fishing.

“If they [state fisheries managers] aren’t going to do anything about it, we have to.”

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters Guides who have already signed on include Bob Ball of Piscatorial Pursuits, Ryan Celusta of Ryan’s Guide Service, Randy Lato of All-Way Fishing, Bill Meyer of Rivers West Guide Service, Jim Kerr of Rain Coast Guides, Mike Zavadlov of Mike Z’s Guide Service, Greg Springer of Springers Sportfishing and Ryan Bullock, who didn’t list a guide service.

The list is still open and guides, businesses and individuals will all have a chance to sign on.

Kratzer said Fish and Wildlife will be notified of the effort as well.

He feels customers will understand the self-imposed limitation, as many guides have already adopted a similar strategy and continually provide education on their concerns to customers.

“The majority of my clients really understand after I speak to them about the issues facing these rivers and these chinook,” Kratzer said.

“I’ve heard this from them a lot: ‘I’d rather know that I can bring my grandchildren here in 20 to 25 years and have this same outstanding experience than take my second king and go home with it now.’

“When I talk to our customers, when I talk to other guides, there are just not that many people who want to keep two kings a day.”

He said there has been buy-in from the Quileute tribe as well, with Kratzer saying the tribe has reduced the size of the mesh used during tribal harvesting and focused more on taking hatchery coho.

“They’ve gone to a mesh size that keeps more big kings in the river and they are targeting more hatchery coho, since the state salmon hatchery raises 400,000 of them a year on the Sol Duc,” Kratzer said.

Kratzer, who also runs a guiding service in Alaska, feels the state fisheries managers should take lessons from king regulations in place on many rivers up in the Last Frontier.

“Many of those prime king rivers [like the Copper or Kenai] are one king per day, four per season limits,” he said.

When I spoke with him, Kratzer was out on a river trip with two customers from Oregon.

Those customers had seen a rebound in chinook stocks in the Tillamook Bay drainage after a similar five-king-a-year limit was imposed.

Another factor in this pledge is economic.

“There are many guides who see our resource as an experience, a destination experience that people who take a trip will remember forever,” Kratzer said.

“We haven’t seen another person on the river today. We are just floating along trying to catch fish and that’s what we can provide and we can promote.”

The complicated issue results in some pretty simple bottom line for Kratzer and the other guides.

“If we can reduce the numbers we kill, save these kings and still have a vital fishery, then the longevity of our town [Forks] will continue,” Kratzer said.

“I understand there are more people fishing and more licenses purchased, but that doesn’t make it OK to keep fishing them to extinction.”

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 Gov. Brown signs bill banning commercial production of genetically modified salmon September 29, 2014 Gov. Jerry Brown (California) signed a North Coast lawmaker’s bill banning the commercial production of genetically altered salmon.

AB 504, authored by Assemblyman Wes Chesbro, D-Arcata, extends the prohibition of spawning or cultivating so-called “transgenic salmonids” in the Pacific Ocean to all waters of the state. The hatchery production and stocking of such fish also is prohibited.

The legislation protects the state’s native steelhead trout and salmon populations, Chesbro said. He noted that federal food and drug regulators are reviewing an application by a company, AquaBounty Technologies, that seeks to raise genetically altered salmon in the United States.

“If these ‘frankenfish’ were to escape into our waters, they could destroy our native salmonid populations through interbreeding, competition for food and the introduction of parasites and disease,” Chesbro stated in a news release. “

Editorial Comment: Our understanding is the USDA is working on the Aquabounty Technologies application that would permit genetic engineering of Atlantic salmon in Canada that would be raised in Panama for consumption in the USA and elsewhere.

Once approved, there would be little that could be done by USDA to control where these genetically engineered fish could be raised.

The only way to ensure this never happens is to ban commercial hatchery production, cultivation or stocking of transgenic salmonids in California.”

The legislation prohibits research or experimentation commercial production of genetically-altered salmonids.

The bill was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.

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 Miramichi River salmon numbers hit record low in 2014 Groups call for Prime Minister to strike task force to devise plan to save wild Atlantic salmon September 17, 2014 Listen and Learn HERE The world-famous Miramichi River is experiencing a salmon decline that "is among the worst in recorded history."

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters New numbers released by the Miramichi Salmon Association and the Atlantic Salmon Federation put the number of salmon returning to the river this year at about 12,000, despite near perfect angling conditions.

That number is about half of the 23,000 that returned to the river to spawn from 2011 through 2013.

"These are frightening numbers," said David Wilson, chairman of the Miramichi Salmon Association.

In the first decade of this century, about 53,000 salmon returned to the river annually. The average number of salmon returns in the 1990s was about 82,000.

It is estimated that 20 to 25 per cent of all Atlantic salmon returning to North American rivers to spawn each year return to the Miramichi.

Mark Hambrook, the president of the MSA, calls it "a crisis."

"This year has been a dismal year for salmon returns to the Miramichi and basically throughout all of Atlantic Canada," said Hambrook. "And it seems that the further south the river, the worse the runs are.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters "The Miramichi is not going to meet its spawning requirements this year, so we're in a bit of a crisis," he said. "Pools that will normally have 300, 400 fish in it, now have 50 or 60."

The salmon groups say many wild salmon runs throughout Quebec and Atlantic Canada are experiencing the same "serious situation."

'These are frightening numbers.'- David Wilson, chairman of Miramichi Salmon Association At the annual MSA dinner in Fredericton on Tuesday, the salmon groups made a public plea for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to appoint a multi-disciplinary task force to create a wild Atlantic salmon action plan.

Atlantic Salmon Federation president Bill Taylor stressed there are immediate actions that should be taken.

"Some people will argue that the matter need further study or that there are issues at play that are beyond our control such as poor sea survival and climate change," said Taylor. "While that may be true, there is ample evidence and data currently available upon which a strong and effective action plan can be based."

Taylor said the downturn in salmon numbers threatens the $40-million value of the recreational salmon fishery to the New Brunswick economy.

Fishing camp owner Debbie Norton is among those who wants action from government.

"We want a comprehensive management plan and stop being the little Dutch boy trying to plug the hole in the dike with one finger at a time."

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 British Columbia stonewalls on mine disaster: America take note October 1, 2014 The collapse of a tailings dam on Aug. 4, at a big British Columbia mine, not only contaminated key salmon habitat but breached the credibility of B.C.’s government.

The province’s lack of transparency, and lackadaisical attitude toward warning signs at the Mount Polley Mine, should be a wakeup call on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.

Editorial Comment:  The USA Is lagging terribly regarding international protection, restoration and conservation of wild Pacific salmon:  Ocean- based salmon feedlots  Fossil fuel extraction and transportation  Hydropower dams  Irresponsible logging  Irresponsible flood plain development

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters Why is this of concern to Washington or Alaska? What does a huge release of water and metal-laden tailings into Quesnel Lake have to do with the United States?

Plenty! Just look closely at a map of Southeast Alaska.

Big mines are being planned or on the verge of opening in the Stikine-Iskut, Unuk and Taku River systems, vitally important Alaska salmon streams all of which have their headwaters in British Columbia.

Debris from the Mount Polley Tailings Pond has traveled down the Hazeltine Creek and stopped where the creek meets Quesnel Lake.

The disaster at the Mount Polley mine “validates fears Alaska fishermen have regarding Canada’s development of large-scale bedrock mines” on trans-boundary rivers, Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, wrote in a letter to the U.S. State Department.

“We have to show these people that salmon have no boundaries,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said last month when she and Begich toured an ocean acidification research facility in Seattle.

Stonewalling by the B.C. government underscores the need for the U.S. State Department to intervene and require an honest evaluation of hazards and the adequacy of safety features.

A Vancouver Sun reporter, Gordon Hoekstra, unearthed a 2010 inspection report at the Williams Lake library. It revealed that a 30 by 45 foot tension crack was discovered at the Mount Polley Mine tailings dam four years before its collapse — in the same earthen embankment that ruptured on Aug. 4.

As well, 40 percent of the 92 instruments used to measure the buildup of water pressure at the dam were broken. A safety report outlined this problem four years before that.

In a devastating Monday column, Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer went over what the provincial government and Imperial Metals WON’T tell the news media about one of the province’s greatest disasters. A few details:

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The provincial government has refused to discuss action it took after the tailings dam crack was discovered. “Was there a full-blown assessment of the tailings dam, as recommended by the inspector?” asked Palmer. Were measuring instruments replaced?

The B.C. government refused to release inspection reports on the tailings dam for 2011, 2012 and 2013. B.C. Environment Minister Mark Polak has said providing information could “compromise” the ongoing investigation of the disaster.

Imperial Metals has refused to discuss what it did about findings in the 2010 report, saying it would be “foolhardy” to comment now while the 2014 disaster is under investigation.

The B.C. government has given no indication of heightened scrutiny of the Red Chris Mine, an Imperial Metals project due to open this year in upper reaches of the Stikine-Iskut river system. Nine pristine lakes, at the headwaters of the Iskut, lie below the mine site.

Legacy – November 2014 Wild Game Fish Conservation International 2014 – Honoring Sacred Waters “Civic and corporate responsibility aside, self-interest alone would suggest that Imperial ought to build a great mine,” Wade Davis, a University of British Columbia anthropology professor, summer resident of the area and National Geographic writer, wrote recently on TheTyee.ca website.

The bottom line, however, is blunt: The British Columbia government cannot be trusted. The United States needs to intervene to protect the interest of Southeast Alaska’s salmon fishery, in which boats from Puget Sound are a major participant.

Both Begich and Sen. Lisa Murkowski have urged Secretary of State John Kerry to put this on his radar screen. “I urge you to accelerate your work with your Canadian counterparts that new mining activities are subject to proper review and continued oversight,” Murkowski said in a letter to Kerry.

The International Joint Commission, charged with resolving U.S.-Canada border issues, is the obvious agency to intervene.

Tahltan Indians, who live in the Stikine-Iskut, on Monday resumed a road blockade at the Red Chris Mine. They have spent years seeking to control and limit mining’s imprint on an area of spectacular beauty that is rich in wildlife and fisheries. The site of Imperial’s mine — Todagin Mountain — is home to the world’s largest concentration of Stone sheep.

“To date, Imperial has been largely deaf to public concerns,” wrote Davis.

The Stone sheep, and the salmon runs, won’t be protected by a stonewalling British Columbia government. OK, John Kerry has a lot to do. But several of Alaska’s great trans-boundary rivers deserve to be on his plate.

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