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Apr

24

2008 Commercial Salmon Season CLOSED

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The following information is directly from the Department of Fish and Game website on April 24, 2008. For up to date information, please visit this link.

Commercial Salmon Regulations

Commercial fishing from Horse Mountain to Point Arena (Fort Bragg area) previously scheduled to open April 7, 2008 through April 25, 2008 has been closed.

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) the National Marine Fisheries Service adopted a complete closure of commercial and sport Chinook salmon fisheries off California for the remainder of the 2008 season on April 10, 2008.

For a DFG Salmon Fishing Update issued April 18, 2008, click here .

For more information, visit the PFMC Web site at www.pcouncil.org/whatsnew.html.

strong>OCEAN SALMON REGULATIONS HOTLINE (707) 576-3429
CDFG - Ocean Salmon Project
475 Aviation Blvd, Suite 130, Santa Rosa, CA 95403

Mar

27

Incident on the Mad River

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It goes…last fall on the Mad River…

Two guys are fishing on the gravel bar and the game warden pulls up in his truck. He gets out and asks to see their fishing licenses. They look at each other, look back at the warden and reply, “We don’t have fishing licenses”.

The warden becomes really excited and tells them to reel in their lines immediately! They reel in their lines and on the end of their lines was a five pound magnet. The warden gets a dumbfounded look on his face and say, “Well, I guess I can’t give you a citation because you weren’t fishing using hooks.

The warden gets back in his truck and drives off. The two guys look at each other and say, “It’s a good thing he didn’t know we were fishing for Steelhead”. 

Jun

4

Pacific Salmon - A Long History

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“No one knows exactly how old Pacific salmon are, but they may have split off as a separate family of fishes as many as 100 million years ago.

Current theory suggests prehistoric salmon began as lake dwellers and did not take to the oceans until the marine waters cooled considerably during the Oligocene Age some 40 million years ago.

The genus oncorhynchus probably emerged in the Miocene Age 24 million years ago as the Northwest coast began to take shape.

One now extinct salmonid from this era is the saber-toothed salmon. Weighing hundreds of pounds, it had a pair of enormous curved teeth, but fed chiefly on plankton…

The ancestors of today’s Pacific salmon, such as those found in the banks of the Skokomish River, originated in the Pleistocene Age, a time when the watersheds and river systems of today began to form.”

(The above excerpt is from an article written by journalist John Dodge of The Olympian.)

Jun

4

Saber-Tooth Salmon?

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MUSEUM BOSS HOOKS SABER-TOOTH SALMON — 80-MILLION-YEAR-OLD ENCHODUS PART OF ROCKS, FOSSILS EXHIBIT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (The Associated Press, December, 1995.)

VICTORIA, British Columbia - Mike Trask has some fish story. The director of science at the Courtenay museum, 110 miles (185 km) northwest of Victoria, has hauled in a 130-pound (60 Kg), saber-tooth salmon.

“We were finding bits and pieces for the last few years, but at first we didn’t know what it was,” Trask said. “Then we found large teeth and gill covers.”

The fossil hunter had come upon an 80-million-year-old enchodus. “It is not much different to our present salmon,” he said. “The teeth were spectacular, with a large hook to them. Scientifically, it is a predecessor to today’s salmon.”

Using the remains of the salmon, Trask figures the head alone was 12 inches (30 cm) long. The tooth was probably used for protection as well as for piercing the shells of its food. Trask said he’s not sure why salmon evolved without saber teeth.

Trask’s exhibit is one of about two dozen on display as part of the “Rocks and Fossils: Bones of the Earth” display at The Royal British Columbia Museum. The show includes everything from Courtenay’s monster salmon to the tusk of a woolly mammoth and a 17,000-year-old bison skull found in a suburban pond.

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For more information on this ancient ancestor to the salmon, check out Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchodus

And here is link to a site with some really interesting images of the creature: http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Enchodus.html