Jan252013
Daily DrakeWild Salmon

Wild SalmonAre Washington State’s wild salmon on the upswing? The short answer is yes. And no. According to salmon recovery reports data varies from one watershed to the next. But generally speaking, salmon will not be going the way of the Twinkie anytime soon, with numbers better than they were a decade ago.

Via the Columbia Basin Bulletin: “Wild Hood Canal summer chum and Snake River fall chinook salmon populations are increasing, the report says, and Middle Columbia River steelhead, Lake Ozette sockeye and Snake River spring-summer chinook salmon and Upper Columbia River steelhead numbers are ‘slightly increasing.’

“The report says that Lower Columbia River fall chinook, Lower Columbia River spring chinook, Lower Columbia River steelhead, Puget Sound steelhead and Snake River steelhead stocks are showing ‘no change.’ Lower Columbia River chum, Puget Sound chinook and Upper Columbia River spring chinook abundance seems to be ‘slightly decreasing,’ the report says. Data is lacking to make an updated judgment on wild Lower Columbia River coho numbers, the report says.”

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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