KAMPALA (Reuters) – Overfishing on Lake Victoria has seen Nile Perch stocks drop 81 percent to 370,000 metric tons in 2008 from 2 million metric tons three years ago, “annihilating” the species, Uganda said Thursday. Fishing is one of Uganda’s leading export earners. The east African nation boasts four major lakes — Victoria, Lake […]
By GLENDA ANDERSON Coho salmon migrating toward the ocean this week were killed by a sudden water-level drop in a Russian River tributary near Healdsburg, the result of efforts to protect crops from frost, officials said. The deaths of the endangered salmon add urgency to a multi-agency task force meeting, scheduled Tuesday in Sacramento, aimed […]
By JASON DEAREN, Associated Press Writer (04-08) 17:35 PDT Millbrae, Calif. (AP) — California’s commercial chinook salmon fishing season will be called off again after a record low number of the fish returned to the Sacramento River to spawn last year, federal fisheries managers announced Wednesday. The decision by the Pacific Fishery Management Council will […]
