Friday, July 15, 2011

News articles and links from July 15, 2011

Fisheries

Annual NOAA report shows ‘steady progress’ toward rebuilding fisheries

Blog

By Dan Bacher

From IndyBay Media – Thursday, July 14, 2011

Coalition response...This author trumpets NOAA’s report that fish populations are rebounding following reduced fishing programs. Yet when the fishing restrictions of recent years were announced by federal fish agencies, he and other fishing interests screamed against the action...and now he is holding up a report that justifies the action?

Although he sometimes poses as a friend to environmental concerns over declining fisheries when it suits his ideological purposes, the fact is that Dan Bacher’s number-one priority is fishing, which is an effective means of killing fish. Ironically, the NOAA report said that 40 fish stocks are overfished and among them are some of the species that Bacher flaunts on his commercialized fishing web site.

It is also ironic that this author is quick to recognize a qualifier in the NOAA report that suggests other factors beyond fishing may impact fish populations that are characterized as “overfished.” But in a 2010 report by the National Academy of Sciences on the Delta and the biological opinions that cited fish salvage at the Delta pumps, Bacher ignored the NAS “qualifier” that other predation factors need to be studied to achieve a complete understanding of the predation issue.

WATER SUPPLY

Wet winter bringing summer benefits

Story

From Porterville Recorder – Friday, July 15, 2011

Response to ‘Siskiyou County priorities’

Opinion

By Leo “T” Bergeron

From Siskiyou Daily News – Thursday, July 14, 2011

Climate change tempers good news about Colorado River Basin Water Supply

Story

From Climate Central – Wednesday, July 13, 2011

DELTA

A voice for California’s flyover country

Viewpoint

By Jon Mendelson

From Tracy Press – Friday, July 15, 2011

Machado strikes back

Blog

By Alex Breitler

From The Record – Thursday, July 14, 2011

State high court rules on Delta drilling

Story

From The Record – Friday, July 15, 2011

Supreme Court orders review of order authorizing DWR’s entry

Report

From Somach Simmons & Dunn – Thursday, July 14, 2011

Delta Conservancy wants your stories

Story

From Sacramento Bee – Thursday, July 14, 2011

RIVERS

River restoration meets resistance in Congress

Story

From Fresno Bee – Thursday, July 14, 2011

FISHERIES

Annual stock report shows steady progress toward rebuilding our nation’s fisheries

Press release

From NOAA – Thursday, July 14, 2011

Report: 40 fish populations being fished too hard

Story

From Redding Record Searchlight - Thursday, July 14, 2011

From SF Chronicle – Thursday, July 14, 2011

From Sacramento Bee – Thursday, July 14, 2011

From KFMB-TV 8 – Thursday, July 14, 2011

WETLANDS

Ranching, Wetlands Collide in North Coast

Story

From The Wall Street Journal – Thursday, July 14, 2011

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