est. 2000
An organization dedicated to increasing the return of wild
steelhead to the waters of the Pacific Northwest
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May, 6th 2008, On May 31 the WSC will Host the Steelhead Summit Alliance. The intention of the Summits is to bring clubs and organizations together to discuss contemporary issues and science regarding steelhead and create a unified voice for steelhead to work together and reverse their plight. If you are a member of another club or organization, please urge your leadership to become involved and send representatives to the SSA. March, 10th 2008, As many of you are aware the WSC has been providing input on this plan all the way through the process and it has been through that process the WSC has been able to help make this a stonger management plan that will be state's guiding policy for steelhead conservation mangement in the years to come. Our plan moving forward is to continue to be involved with the WDFW and Commission by providing input to steelhead management decisions and ensure accountability by the department to make the best decisions, based on sound science to help ensure recovery of wild steelhead. Thanks to all the WSC members who have helped us along the way and who provided testimony to the WDFW! Stay tuned... February, 5th 2008, The testimony to the Fish and Wildlife Commission took place Saturday. It went well. Thanks to all who supported by showing up to provide testimony or by mailing in your comments. You will find below two documents used in the testimony that may be of interest to those that went and those who didn't and would like to read some of the content used for the event. The science paper was commissioned and paid for by the WSC for the testimony.
January 30th 2008, We are asking that steelhead supporters to attend this important public hearing on Feburary 2 as an opportunity to testify and communicate to the Commission that the proposed steelhead management plan needs more work and is omitting critical information for real steelhead recovery and therefore should not adopted. The WSC has developed the following talking points for you to use in your testimony or email to the Commission: January 25th 2008, President's Update to the WSC Membership and Supporters January 24th 2008, Two new articles from WSC members that were published in national magazines last year. The WSC has just been granted reproduction rights for them on our site and here they are enjoy.
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The Wild Steelhead Coalition was formed by a concerned group of citizens whose goal is to reverse the decline of returning wild steelhead by solving the problems that they face. Over-harvest, poor hatchery and management practices, and habitat degradation have caused the decline of wild steelhead in the Pacific Northwest. For Over 50 years, citizens of Washington, Oregon and Idaho have watched returning wild steelhead diminish to a fraction of their former numbers. Our goal is to see that the rivers of the Pacific Northwest will again have abundant wild steelhead runs. Join us in preserving this magnificent game fish. |
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Steelhead Newswire A New Federal Plan, the Same Old Failure. 5/05/08 The Oregonian North Coast Saved From Fish Farms. BC Agriculture and Lands Minister Pat Bell’s announcement today that there will be no salmon farms in northern BC waters. 4/2/08 (FOWS) The release of 130 steelhead at 5 years of age would mark the end of an experimental hatchery program that began 10 years ago on the Hamma Hamma River. 3/16/08 Kitsap Sun Salmon group plans work on rivers The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Groups seeks volunteers to work on a wild steelhead recovery plan concentrated in the Dewatto and Tahuya rivers in north Mason County. Volunteers will be trained to identify steelhead redds, juveniles and adults. Participants need to be physically fit for hiking along the streams and lifting up to 50 pounds. The survey work runs from March through June on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. For more information, contact Chris Daniel at the salmon enhancement group office at 360-275-3575 or chris@hsceg.org. 3/08/08 HCSEG End of the Line (reprint) - The plight to save salmon fishing on the Columbia and progress in the name of damming. 8/01/94 Mother Earth News Skagit River system steelhead rules change. 2/14/08 WdFW.wa.com New fish farm study cites crash in salmon, trout populations. 2/12/08 The Vancouver Sun Columbia Chinook allocations, fishing rules\closures, discussed by the F&W commission - "Mahnken said no one is sure how many wild salmon and steelhead die in nets set for hatchery chinook." 2/06/08 The StatesmanJournal |