Issue: November/December 2021

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has announced $3.9 million in grants for conservation partnerships, including several projects to improve instream flows in an anadromous salmonid stream in California, and three in Washington state. The projects, which were announced on Sept. 21, are expected to benefit stream reaches where insufficient flows are identified by a state or federal agency as a key limiting factor for fish survival. A project to restore streamflow for coho and steelhead in California’s Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District would provide technical assistance and engineering to landowners along salmonid-bearing streams to improve instream flows, promote groundwater recharge and enhance instream habitat, with special emphasis on watershed devastated by recent catas...

Donations of thousands of pounds of chum salmon are coming to Alaska’s Yukon River villages, but the big gap left when record low fish runs resulted in a ban on all commercial and subsistence fishing remains a challenge. Overall donations from commercial processors and the state of Alaska through the third week of September were about 94,000 pounds, according to processors and the office of Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy. That amounts to about five to 10 fish per household, probably closer to five, said Jack Schultheis, general manager of Kwik’Pak Fisheries in Emmonak. Most Yukon River household puts up 50 to 150 chums a year and maybe 20 to 25 kings, depending on family size, he said. Yukon River residents fish commercially and for subsistence, but there were not enough fish for the harvest ...