Salmon restoration effort begins on California river
FRESNO, Calif. When Darrell Imperatrice was a boy, California s San Joaquin River teemed with so many king salmon his father could catch 40-pound fish using only a pitchfork. Then the salmon vanished from the icy river for nearly 60 years, after a ...
 5.2K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 608.0 Laker men lose soccer match
The Southwestern Oregon Community College men s soccer team opened the season with a 3-0 loss to Whatcom on Saturday. All three goals came in the opening half. Southwestern coach Ray Fabien said his freshman players adjusted well in the second half....
1.7K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 252.0 Bandon Fishing Report
Local lakes: Anglers trolling for rainbow trout last weekend are reporting the trout are no longer feeding on the surface, but have moved into deeper water. One angler noticed their line was getting bites as they turned the boat, which allowed their...
3.7K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 479.0 Coast Guard searches for boat off Astoria
ASTORIA (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a tuna fishing boat with three people on board that failed to arrive in Warrenton. The 39-foot Kay Ann left Newport last weekend and was due to dock in Warrenton on Wednesday. It was reported overd...
0.9K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 252.0 Gerald Bachman
A private family gathering for Gerald Bachman, 84, of Hillsboro, originally of Coos Bay, was held July 5, 2009, at the family home. A celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, July 18, at Wanda's Food and Beverage House, 740 Koos Bay Blvd...
2.8K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 326.0 Cheers and jeers
Mark your calendar Cheers to the Messerles for opening their barn, year after year, to raise money for people battling cancer. Next weekend's sale of donated items is sure to bring smiles to one woman and her family during a tough time. Schools witho...
1.7K - May. 30, 2009; scored 252.0 Salmon aid trickles to Oregon, California coasts
From AP and Staff Reports As much as $53 million in aid for Oregon and California salmon fishermen can only help the local economy. Anything that comes their way impacts their families and the community positively, said Martin Callery, comm...
3.6K - May. 1, 2009; scored 578.0 Commerce Department releases $53 million for salmon disaster
WASHINGTON (AP) The Commerce Department has released $53 million to Oregon and California to help West Coast salmon fishermen after the third fishery failure in four years. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke made the announcement Thursday in a ...
1.0K - Apr. 30, 2009; scored 326.0 Low salmon returns prompt failure claim
GRANTS PASS (AP) - The governors of Oregon and California on Tuesday asked the federal government to declare another West Coast salmon fishery failure - the third request in four years. Commercial salmon fishing for chinook, also known as king salmon...
2.9K - Apr. 22, 2009; scored 545.0 Chinook fishing season halted again in California
MILLBRAE - 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 P...
4.0K - Apr. 9, 2009; scored 732.0 Lower Snake is third most endangered river
SPOKANE, Wash. - Four dams that are blamed for damaging salmon runs on the lower Snake River in Washington place the waterway third among the nation's most endangered rivers, according to an annual report by American Rivers. The conservation group on...
3.8K - Apr. 8, 2009; scored 663.0 Trollers want big season for sport fishermen
COOS BAY - The talk was of zeros and giving everything away: Zero fishing for commercial salmon fishermen on the ocean this year and letting sport fishermen have as much fish as possible. The Pacific Fishery Management Council held a hearing Monday n...
3.9K - Mar. 31, 2009; scored 490.0 Scientists call for reform at salmon hatcheries
GRANTS PASS - Salmon produced by hatcheries in the Columbia Basin are no substitute for salmon spawned naturally in rivers, but can still help restore wild runs if significant changes are made, a team of scientists reported Friday to Congress. The re...
3.1K - Mar. 28, 2009; scored 326.0 Detained reporters drawn to refugee story
SEOUL, South Korea Tales about life on the run from repressive North Korea women who end up at the mercy of human traffickers, children who grow up in hiding drew the team of American reporters to the Chinese-North Korean border. Spent the day ...
7.0K - Mar. 21, 2009; scored 252.0 Report says salmon booms and busts tough to change
GRANTS PASS (AP) - Federal fisheries biologists say the 2008 collapse of salmon returning to California's Sacramento River was triggered primarily by climatic conditions that produced little food in the ocean, compounded by too much reliance on fish ...
4.3K - Mar. 19, 2009; scored 545.0 Court upholds salmon policy
GRANTS PASS - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the federal government's discretion to use salmon raised in hatcheries to bolster wild runs, but not as a substitute that would lift Endangered Species Act protections. The ruling Monday by a three...
4.7K - Mar. 17, 2009; scored 326.0 California salmon season prospects dim; limited in Oregon
SEATTLE (AP) - There won't be much of a salmon season for fishermen off the California coast for the second year in a row. The Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted three options Thursday for this year's ocean salmon season at a meeting in Seatt...
5.5K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 765.0 Don't blame us for Cal's fisheries
If the Sacramento River was so bad, why did they have a river fishery? According to Oregon Department of Fish Wildlife Fish Division Assistant Administrator Steve Williams, I m not going to explain California. He said we do not control what they ...
1.0K - Mar. 12, 2009; scored 454.0 Economy doesn't worry LNG developers
No one has paid to use Jordan Cove Energy Project s proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay s North Spit. It hasn t gotten the go-ahead from federal officials. And the federal government thinks Americans will need less foreign gas as dome...
4.4K - Mar. 9, 2009; scored 377.0 Economy doesn t worry LNG developers
No one has paid to use Jordan Cove Energy Project s proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay s North Spit. It hasn t gotten the go-ahead from federal officials. And the federal government thinks Americans will need less foreign gas as dome...
4.5K - Mar. 7, 2009; scored 377.0 | 
