The North American Journal of Fisheries Management has a special issue on stream restoration this month I'll skim the articles and see if there are any super exciting ones to maybe highlight for you next week
The Christian Science Monitor covers the US Sugar land sale and the potential for it to change the course of Everglades restoration while an Orlando Sentinel blogger attempts to make sense of the impacts, unrecoverables, and the reality of Everglades restoration and the Palm Beach Post credits a long history of citizen activism for motivating the state to restore the Everglades in the first place, and leading them to the point where this land deal is possible.
The Palm Beach Post also encourages the divorcing of ecological restoration projects from other water development projects in future federal legislation to avoid the mess of the presidential veto that hit the Water Resource Development Act of 2008 over "pork barrel projects"
A council of indigenous leaders, ecologists, scientists, community activists, healers and elders will present a Calling Back the Salmon Resolution on July 10 at the 3rd Annual Spring-Run Chinook Symposium, held in Nevada City, CA
On a small stretch of stream not in a concrete channel in downtown Pasadena, CA, volunteers hope to restore habitat for the Arroyo chub and then reintroduce the long absent native species to Arroyo Seco While I admire their efforts, I wonder at the possibility for survival of an isolated population.
Laura Wildman blogs about "Dam removal done right" on American Rivers Blog
Asarco and Newmont Mining have agreed to pay federal and state agencies $138.5 million--including the second largest state settlement for natural resource damages in Colorado history--to help remediate the California Gulch Superfund site in and around Leadville, Colorado, including 11 miles of the Arkansas River Update: The amount of the settlement was apparently incorrectly reported originally and picked up by a number of news outlets. Mineweb reports that the correct amount was 38.5 million
While Pacific salmon populations are crashing, Atlantic salmon are a real comeback story in Massachusetts
Heartwarming story of the day: Hope for stormwater management in Baltimore through community investment and "strategic greening"
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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I worked on the Atlantic Salmon decline in Mass. during spring months back in 04 and 05. The crew I worked with would count the fish during their upstream migration (mostly american shad and sea lamprey)through underwater windows in Conn. R. fish ladders. We would also trap and tag migrating smolts headed out to the ocean. I came up with a theory that perhaps the high levels of mercury and other metals in the watershed and along the Atlantic coastline migration path may correlate to the declines by creating magnetic shielding after ingestion, which could possibly cause the fish to corkscrew out into the middle of the Atlantic. I haven't had time to look into it yet though.
That's an interesting theory. Unfortunately, fish navigation systems are pretty far outside of my area of expertise, so I can't guess on the likelihood of your theory.
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