[env-trinity] FW: Local salmon season -- clarified

[Josh Allen]

From: Pelican Network [mailto:rocinante at pelicannetwork.net] 
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:17 AM
To: Klamath at pelicannetwork.net
Subject: Re: Local salmon season -- clarified

 

All: Attached is a copy of a letter sent California Governor Arnold 
Schwarzenegger requesting a disaster declaration for the 2005 salmon
season 
(that resulted from the 2002 Klamath fish kills). A similar request will
be 
made of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski. - Zeke Grader 

  
  

Posted by Margie Whitnah

Eureka Times-Standard 
http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2809182,00.html# 

Local salmon season -- clarified 

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 

The Times-Standard 

Onerous management measures designed to protect weak Klamath River
salmon stocks have 
taken a chunk out of local salmon fisheries this year. 

The sport ocean fishery in the Klamath Management Zone will get only
four days of the usually 
hot fishing month of July. The season set by the Pacific Fisheries
Management Council last week 
for the Eureka, Trinidad and Crescent City areas runs from May 21
through July 4, then from 
August 14 to September 11. 

Anglers will still get to keep two chinook salmon over 24 inches long
every day. 

>From Horse Mountain to Point Arena, the Fort Bragg area, the season runs
from February 12 to 
July 10 and July 23 through November 13, and salmon over 20 inches can
be kept. 

Commercial fishermen from the Oregon border to the South Jetty of
Humboldt Bay can only fish 
September 3 to September 30 or until a 6,000 fish quota is met. That
means most local fishermen 
will probably spend most of their time far south of here. Tribal
fishermen also don't expect to meet 
subsistence limits. 

The decision, which will be adopted by the National Marine Fisheries
Service, has frustrated 
fishermen since Sacramento River stocks are strong this year. But
Klamath fish mix with the 
Sacramento salmon and to prevent too many from being caught, the season
was shortened. 
  

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