Status of salmonid stocks in Iceland
Summary of salmon trout and charr fishing and prospects
Picture from Westfjords
Dynjandi river runninn into Arnarfjörður
#salmonid #atlanticSalmon #browntrout #ArcticCharr #Dynjandi
https://www.hafogvatn.is/is/midlun/frettir-og-tilkynningar/upptaktur-ad-veidisumrinu-2025
#AtlanticSalmon switch navigation strategies during migration to sea when passing through lakes: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15972 @ColinAdams
A few years ago, dad told me that Atlantic salmon get to be as big as 50' long. When I laughed, he got really upset, doubling down on it. I looked up the world's largest Atlantic salmon. The monstrous fish was over four feet long. Dad refused to believe this. I guess he thinks Monstro-sized salmon flop their ways up shallow rivers, damming them up as they spawn. I like to imagine the mighty 50' salmon leaping majestically up Niagara Falls. Imagine how startled a bear would be to find such a beast. https://trickyfish.co/what-is-the-largest-atlantic-salmon-ever-caught/
#TallTales #TheFishThatGotAway #fishing #salmon #AtlanticSalmon
#WaterfallWednesday This is on the Torrent River near Hawkes Bay, #Newfoundland and Labrador. This is an #AtlanticSalmon river. The Torrent River Salmon Interpretation Centre and Nature Park has been developed as a tourist attraction here, celebrating #conservation, salmon enhancement, and the tradition of #SalmonAngling in this area of our province.
The #SalmonEye is a propaganda tool for the #Frankenfish Industry. They care nothing about #AtlanticSalmon or Consumers, only profits. End the #FishFarm blight everywhere. #JustSayNO to #WildAtlanticSalmon #ECOcide and send these #SalmonGrifters packing. Deep inside a Norwegian fjord, a dream of farming salmon sustainably
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/13/nx-s1-5090753/fishing-sustainability-environment-norway-salmon
No surprises here.
#ECOcide #AtlanticSalmon #UK.
@primonatura
#Frankenfish from #scotland Another fine Scottish quisine which should only be eaten on a bet! (If then).
#FishFarms #SalmonGrifters #ECOcide.
#GriftersGonnaGrift all over #Scotland while Wild #AtlanticSalmon go extinct.
Scottish Salmon farm cleared tonnes of dead fish before inspection, charity says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/scottish-salmon-farm-dunstaffnage-cleared-dead-fish-before-inspection-animal-charity-claims?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Congratulations to #JimMcDonald on his retirement from the #RAE. #Engineers of our era have much to look back on in terms of the profound change we brought, but are also responsible for much of the #ClimateCrisis which we face today. In reflection was all that #tech innovation worth the cost to #MotherEarth? I am doubtful.
#TightLines while out #AtlanticSalmon fishing on the mighty #RiverSpey during your retirement.
#Decarbonization #Electrification #BehavioralChange.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/24/royal-academy-of-engineering-president-jim-mcdonald-this-is-how-we-power-a-greener-future?CMP=share_btn_url
These are #Frankenfish, NOT #AtlanticSalmon. #FishFarms #Scotland. First large-scale UK onshore salmon project at risk over ‘factory farm’ claims https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/15/first-large-scale-uk-onshore-salmon-project-at-risk-over-factory-farm-claimss?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Exploring the spawning sites and juvenile habitats of #Anadromous charr in Miðá river
Both #atlanticSalmon and #ArcticCharr are found í #Miðá
Where do the charr reside, in side streams or in slower moving water by banks?
#Snæfellsnes #Iceland #salmonid
Guðbjörg will also study their head n jaw morphology
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300359
#ProTip: #FlyFishing is essentially dead as a sport. #SalmonLeaders were absent for decades while native aquatic species died off by the millions. It's now a club with no members. Do we really need a #culturewar to add to the misery? #WildSalmon #WildTrout #WildSteelhead #AtlanticSalmon #PacificSalmon #TU.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/31/female-angler-takes-on-men-only-flyfishers-club?CMP=share_btn_url
From 2020: Restoration of #LandStewardship
#SunlightMediaCollective, October 14, 2020
"A significant return of land #stewardship to the #PenobscotNation celebrates their history and cultural #resilience and serves to inspire similar land stewardship returns during and beyond this important moment of historical reckoning. On October 30th, 2020, in the Ancestral territory of the Penobscot Nation, #ChiefKirkFrancis and the Penobscot people received 735 acres of #LandBack in what is currently known as #WilliamsburgTownship. The land is located between two parcels of land already in Penobscot stewardship, to the West of the #PleasantRiver and the town of #Brownsville. This is a broad landscape of #RiverEcosystem and critical #AtlanticSalmon habitat that connects the #PenobscotRiver to #Katahdin."
Video link:
https://www.sunlightmediacollective.org/restoration-of-land-stewardship/
Prey availability and diet of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in low-productivity rivers in northern Europe
Published in the Journal of Fish Biology.
Sum Yi Lai etc
#MarineFreshwaterResearchInstitute
#UniversityIceland
#atlanticsalmon
The availability of resources varies across a species distributional range, and a low productivity area can make a species more vulnerable. #SalmoSalar #Iceland
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.15757
Da bekomme ich glatt Appetit auf gut geräucherten guten #Fisch !
Poster von Ray Troll
BTW Ban #Frankenfish everywhere!
#OpenNetFishFarms are #ECOKillers
#freshsalmon #EndOpenNetSalmonFarming #noopennetfishfarms
#WildAtlanticSalmon #AtlanticSalmon #Salmon
prey availability and diet of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in low-productivity rivers in northern Europe
accepted for publication in the Journal of Fish Biology.
Sum Yi Lai etc
#MarineFreshwaterResearchInstitute
#UniversityIceland
#atlanticsalmon
The availability of resources varies across a species distributional range, and a low productivity area can make a species more vulnerable. We investigated the invertebrate composition and prey choice of juvenile #SalmoSalar #Iceland
Laxá í Kjós
One of the main #atlanticSalmon rivers in #Iceland
Here low flow generated shallow polls
Where juvenile salmon reside
#silentsunday #river #lax #kjos #winter #march
#MaineTribes and Leading #Environmental Organizations Join Forces To Oppose Proposed #Mine in Shadow of #Katahdin
Proposed #ZincMine at #PickettMountain being pursued by virtually unknown Canadian company
June 28, 2023
"Two Tribes in Maine today joined forces with leading environmental groups and a national public interest environmental law organization to oppose a proposed mine that would be located in the shadow of #BaxterStatePark and the #KatahdinWoods & Waters National Monument.
"The proposed zinc mine at Pickett Mountain is being pursued by a virtually unknown Canadian company, #WolfdenResources, that has never operated a mine before. A previous version of Wolfden’s request was widely opposed because the region holds enormous cultural and natural significance to #Wabanaki Tribes, outdoor recreation businesses, and Maine people.
"The #HoultonBandOfMaliseets, the #PenobscotNation, and the #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine [#NRCM], represented by #Earthjustice and #Brann&Isaacson, joined the #ConservationLawFoundation in petitioning to intervene in the review of Wolfden’s permit application to the Land Use Planning Commission (#LUPC) to rezone the area for #industrial uses.
"'The Penobscot Nation strongly opposes the rezoning of this #ecologically important area. We share significant concerns over impacts to the #water quality and f#isheries of the area, which our members rely upon,' said #ChiefKirkFrancis of the Penobscot Nation. 'The West Branch of the #MattawamkeagRiver contains abundant, high-quality, cold-water fish habitat and Designated #CriticalHabitat for #endangered #AtlanticSalmon, identified as necessary for the recovery of Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot River. This mine would impact our traditional territories and forever alter our ability to maintain our relationship to this place.'
"The area Wolfden wants to mine is next to three State Heritage Fish Waters and is a centerpiece of the region’s growing outdoor economy. It contains the headwaters of the West Branch of the Mattawamkeag River, which is sacred to the Penobscot Nation and provides key, federally designated critical habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon.
"'The Katahdin region’s wild beauty and clean water are extraordinary. One look at this landscape demonstrates that this is no place to put a mine,' said Nick Bennett, staff scientist at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. 'Wolfden’s claims that it will treat #wastewater more effectively than any mining company on earth are not credible. This is too big a risk for #Maine.'
"'The legacy of metallic mineral #mining in Maine is one of empty promises of economic development, acid mine drainage #polluting waters and killing fish, and multi-million dollar c#leanups funded by taxpayers and not the fly-by-night mining companies like Wolfden,' said #SeanMahoney, vice-president and senior counsel at the Conservation Law Foundation. 'Rezoning this area to allow mining would fail to recognize the cultural and spiritual importance of the land to the #WabanakiTribes and threaten the natural resources and experiences valued by generations of Maine citizens.'
"After withdrawing its initial request because it was riddled with errors, Wolfden submitted a second rezoning petition in January that sparked another review by the LUPC. Comments by Wolfden’s CEO disrespecting Maine tribes and #MininLlaws have prompted outrage from the Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, and #conservationists. The company has lost tens of millions of dollars over the past decade.
"'This is one of the absolute worst areas to rezone for a mine,' said Aaron Bloom, a senior attorney with Earthjustice. 'The region is known for its vast contiguous forest, pristine streams, high-quality lakes, and aquatic species like wild brook trout and landlocked salmon. Why would we risk that, along with the outdoor economy that depends on it, on a half-baked proposal from an unproven mining company? The Commission must put Maine’s unique natural resources, and the well-being of the people of Maine and Maine’s Wabanaki Tribes, before short-term industry profits.'
"More than 700 hundred Mainers and local businesses, including Bradford Camps, Chandler Lakes Camps and Lodge, and the #MaineWildernessGuidesOrganization, have spoken out against Wolfden’s plans. In May 2022, residents of #Pembroke voted overwhelmingly to ban industrial-scale metallic mineral mining in their town in response to Wolfden’s plans to develop a mine there."
#WaterIsLife #Maine #WabanakiNations #Environment #Mining #CorporateColonialism #NoMining
One of the numerous reasons as to why #WildSalmon are in trouble everywhere. A ban on all types of fishing (much less the behavior that goes with it) is required to save them.
