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California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists today began a comprehensive three-month study of salmon migration through the Delta. Data gathered from the study will help agencies better manage the Delta ecosystem while enhancing habitat for salmon and other protected species and providing a scientific foundation for water policy, ecosystem, and salmon fishery decision makers. "Ultimately, with the data collected from this study, we hope to find...

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are set to begin the largest-ever environmental experiment to track juvenile salmon in the Delta. Beginning Friday, November 14, DWR and USGS scientists will release the first of 6,000 tagged juvenile salmon into the Sacramento River at Old Sacramento. Scientists will track their migration through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta over the next three months using unmanned, robotic boats and electronic gear. The data...

Canadian and U.S. biologists say they have, for the first time, successfully tracked juvenile salmon in both rivers and oceans. The achievement, officials said, was made possible by newly developed miniature tagging and tracking technologies that can follow small salmon over vast distances. "It may have been one of humankind's first ponderings: the fish that got away -- where they come from, where they go and what happens to them in between," said Jim Bolger, executive director of...

A Swiss fisherman made an unusual catch in a tributary of the Rhine River near Basel -- the first wild salmon spotted so far up the Rhine in half a century. The Federal Environmental Office said the female fish was photographed and then released to the river, Swissinfo reported. Olivier Schmidt, an employee of the Natural History Museum in Basel, happened to be in the area when Thomas Wanner caught the salmon last week in the Birs. "We could hardly believe our eyes," Schmidt said....

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAN - West Virginia's first inland salmon fishery has welcomed 28,000 rainbow trout to its production facility in Man. West Virginia Salmon and Trout President William R. Martin says thousands more trout and salmon fingerlings from a nearby hatchery in Mingo County will join this week's arrivals in Man in the coming weeks. The aquaculture company raises sustainable and environmentally friendly salmon. and trout using water-recirculating technology and mountain...

By GRAEME SMITH THE number of salmon caught by anglers in Scotland's rivers last year was among the highest since records began in 1952. Of 91,000 caught, more than 55,000 (or 61per cent) were released back into the water. Up until 2007, more than 90,000 had been caught on only two occasions - 96,488 in 1988 and 92,918 in 2004. The number of salmon and grilse killed fell to 65,468, of which 19,468 were by netsmen. The total reported Scottish catch of sea trout in 2007 was 27,115, compared...

Six popular fishing areas in Utah now have fish-consumption advisories because of concerns about mercury. The advisory released Tuesday by the Utah Department of Health says that since 2000, fish have been tested for the heavy metal in 261 bodies of water statewide, including 192 streams and rivers and 69 lakes and reservoirs. Of those, 15 had elevated levels of mercury, and advisories have been issued for them. In all cases where high levels of mercury have been found, pregnant women and...

By Frank Urquhart THE king of fish is making a steady comeback, with salmon catches on Scotland's rivers last year the third-highest since records began more than 50 years ago, it was revealed yesterday. This is the fourth bumper catch in four years and has been hailed as evidence of the success of the conservation scheme to rebuild once-fragile stocks. A report by the government's Fisheries Research Service shows the total reported catch of salmon by anglers in Scotland last year was...

Autumn means many things, including the salmon spawning run up rivers like the Exe to their breeding beds. It's one of the most thrilling spectacles nature can offer in the UK. The big males have hooked lower jaws and are known as 'reds'. Many die after the mating. The much darker females negotiate the torrents above places like Factory Bridge on the Teign at Chagford, under the collective title of 'black fish'. Similar scenes will be happening from the Tamar to the Exe. And when the salmon...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. - Curious bears fattening up for winter craftily took part in a project to reintroduce native Southern Appalachian brook trout into streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Despite the interference, biologists completed the first phase of the planned reintroduction of the brook trout into several streams in the Tremont area of the park. From Sept. 7 to 19, the park closed an 8-mile segment of streams to poison nonnative fish. But bears tore into the baskets of...