A few more odds and ends.
- Why Wild? The question asks "why buy wild salmon?" The answers are many and the reasons are good. If you think buying a farm-raised salmon is sparing the resource, you are mistaken. Learn why wild salmon are the only salmon you should put on your dinner plate.
- Steelhead – these magnificent fish have diminished in strength all over the West. Patagonia has an interesting essay about the fish, its fisheries and why you should care.
- Delta - I gave a presentation about CA's water future to a group of Delta Striper fisherman at a clinic put on by Dan Blanton. It was a great gathering of concerned and active anglers. The Delta is in the middle of just about every water war around the State.
- The fight for the Moke is gathering pace. Here Patagonia Fly Fishing Ambassador Mikey Wier's take on the issue.
The snow is in the mountains, the rivers are inching higher, runoff is around the corner, Spring is, in theory, here and soon the bugs will start moving and the fish will start to feed. It is a good time of year.
Silver Fork of the American. A pretty little place.
Bjorn - Avid Angler and Development Director for FOR
I still think is is more than just counterintuitive to consume only wild salmon. Can we not preserve the wild stock gene pool by reducing consumption of those genes, AND improve/mitigate the adverse effects of farmed fish? It seems like a push in the wrong direction to consume the wild stock gene pool rather than first improving the aquaculture industry.
ReplyDeleteHow I think about it, and how it is generally thought about, is that you have to put a value on the wild fish. If you create a market demand for wild fish over famred fish people will take notice. Not to mention that most salmon farms are really, really horrible for the ecology of wherever they are found. They are little pens of poison.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's counterintuitive at all and just about every fish/fishing organization I can think of has put their weight behind the Wild Only concept.
The Mokelumne above Pardee is future restoration habitat for salmon and steelhead. We can't let EBMUD destroy more of it. See Chris Shutes of CSPA's great letter on the Pardee expansion at www.calsport.org
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