Index of Editorial Articles
Dan Bacher
(in order of date published, from most current)
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2008
Fishery Council Closes Salmon Fishing Off Oregon And California Urgent Action Alert: Letters Needed by FRIDAY APRIL 11 to Support Lois Wolk's AB 2502 Lois Wolk's Bill Will Provide Fishing Access, Habitat Restoration On North Delta Broad Coalition Proposes Solutions to the Salmon Crisis State and Feds Impose Emergency Salmon Fishing Closure on California and Oregon Coast Federal Fisheries Agency Blames Ocean Conditions for Central Valley Salmon Decline Commission Votes For Increased Protection Of Longfin Smelt Unprecedented Collapse of Central Valley Salmon Is No Surprise Internal Memo Discloses Unprecedented Collapse of Central Valley Salmon Schwarzenegger Easily Wins 2007 Cold, Dead Fish Award Make Your Voice Heard Regarding Proposed American River Closure! Leaping Steelhead, Delta Conservation Awards For 2007 Schwarzenegger the "Fish Slasher" Proposes DFG Budget Cuts, Closing Parks Schwarzenegger Uses Address to Push for Fiscally Irresponsible Water Bond Proposal
2007
Prospect Island Fish Kill Hearing: Assemblywoman Wolk Blasts Agencies For Lack Of Coordination Judge Issues Final Order to Protect Delta Smelt Fall Survey: Delta Smelt And Other Fish Populations On Downward Spiral Today's Prospect Island Survey Yields No Live Fish Testimony at Assembly Committee Hearing on Prospect Island Fish Kill Volunteers Save Thousands of Fish As Investigations into Prospect Island Fish Kill Proceed Fish Rescue Begins Today at Prospect Island Prospect Island Update: There are still live fish at Prospect Island! Angler Coordinating Volunteer Fish Rescue Force Will Visit Prospect Island Today Prospect Island Update: Dead Fish Removal Begins Today Bureau of Reclamation Strands Thousands of Fish on Prospect Island Coastside Dinner: Pure Fishing’s Jim Martin Exhorts Anglers To Get Involved Schwarzenegger Closes Fishing as He Plans the Destruction of the Bay-Delta Estuary California Water Wars Erupt With the “Battle of the Water Bonds" Huge Numbers of Threadfin Shad Show at Delta Pumps CIFFI and Kokanee Power Presidents Pledge Financial Support To DFG PFMC Shuts Down Rockfish And Lingcod Fishing above Pigeon Point on October 1 Fish Groups and Indian Tribes Urge Governor to Sign Suction Dredging Bill Resources Secretary Names John McCamman As Acting DFG Director Alameda Creek Alliance Celebrates Ten Years Of Fish Restoration Judge Orders State and Federal Governments to Reduce Pumping to Protect Delta Smelt Conservation Groups Petition State and Federal Governments to Protect Longfin Smelt Arnold, Tell the Truth about California Water! Ryan Broddrick Leaving DFG to Work for Water Agency Arnold The Fish Terminator: Schwarzenegger Campaigns For Delta Canal, More Dams Congress Will Hold Hearing on Dick Cheney’s Role in Klamath Fish Kill State Appoints North Central Coast Regional MPLA Stakeholder Group Governor Schwarzenegger Supports Peripheral Canal around Delta Fish Group Alarmed That Increased Pumping May Result In Delta Smelt’s Extinction A Victory for the Fish: State Stops Pumping to Protect Delta Smelt! Warren Buffett Refuses To Meet With Klamath River Tribes And Fishermen Urgent Action Alert: Delta Smelt on Brink of Extinction - call the Governor NOW! Judge Affirms Delta Ruling, DWR Files Appeal Fish and Game Commission Imposes No Fishing Zones On The Central Coast Senator Simitian's Delta Bill: An Historic Or Forgotten Moment? Judge Orders State To Shut Down Pumps To Save Delta Fish Anglers Have High Hopes For Recreational Salmon Season South of Point Arena Delta Vision Process Excludes Recreational Anglers, Indian Tribes DFG Forecasts High Klamath, Low Sacramento Salmon Numbers This Year Feds Deny State Permit For South Delta ‘Improvement’ Project Water for Fish Campaign Fights for Restoration of the Bay-Delta, Klamath River SMUD Relicensing Agreement Will Boost River Flows, Double Trout Plants Warren Buffett, Central Valley Board Take 2006 'Cold, Dead Fish' Awards “Leaping Steelhead” Conservation Awards for 2006
2006
Boxer and Feinstein Introduce Legislation To Implement San Joaquin Restoration DFG Makes Big Bust Of Striper Poachers The Mystery Of The Disappearing Salmon SMUD, Agencies Reach Agreement In Principle On Upper American Hydroelectric Relicensing Klamath Riverkeeper Leads 35 Groups In Battle To Clean The Watershed Fish Group Sues DWR For Taking Threatened And Endangered Salmon SMUD Surprises River Advocates With Mixed Message On River Restoration Fish Groups Say No To SMUD’s Hard Line On Relicensing Upper American Judge's Decision Paves Way For Klamath Dam Removal Striped Bass Juvenile Index Plummets To Record Low It's Time To Bring The Klamath Dams Down! Commission Votes For Network Of Marine Reserves Along Central Coast Scientists Urge Commission To Develop “Fisherman’s Package” For MPAs During Commission Meeting The Intertie Project: New Threat Looms Over The California Delta Fish Kill Update: Nimbus Hatchery Warren Buffett Gives To Charity As His Dams Kill Salmon Delta In Crisis, But Water Board Extends Ag Waivers For Five Years High Water Spurs Massive Salmon Die Off At Nimbus Fish Hatchery Broad Coalition Urges Water Board To Stop Agribusiness Water Ideological Opposites Team Up On Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Bill Keep The World’s Largest Salmon Barbecue Going – Join The Noyo Harbor Salmon Derby Mike Thompson Unveils Disaster Relief Legislation At Salmon Rally Recreational, Commercial and Tribal Fishermen Rally Against Klamath Fishery Decline Fishermen Demand Real Solutions To Salmon Declines Congressman George Miller Grills Agency Scientists In Delta Fish Decline Hearing State Water Board Orders Bureau And DWR To Meet Delta Water Standards Fly Fishers Ask Commission To Act To Stop Snagging On Smith River Huge Crowd of Anglers Packs Vallejo DFG Meeting DFG Salmon Fishery Information Meeting Report: No Salmon Season In 2006? Anglers Rise Up Against Delta Exports At Stockton SDIP Hearing Fish And Game Commission Defers Decision On Emergency Sturgeon Closure Congressman George Miller Urges Anglers To Join The Battle To Save The Delta DFG Survey: Delta Smelt Population Reaches Record Low Congressman Richard Pombo Receives Cold, Dead Fish Award For 2005 "Leaping Steelhead" Conservation Awards for 2005
2005
Winnemem Wintu Tribe Joins Battle To Save The Delta Fish Groups Stop Bill Aiming To Gut CVPIA SMUD Relicensing A One-Time Opportunity To Restore South Fork American River Court Rejects Bush Administration's Klamath Water Diversion Plan Volunteers Complete Isolation Pool Project To Enhance American River Fishery Fishermen And Farmers Protest Pombo's Assault On ESA Bureau Finally Agrees To Flow Regime On American River Lawsuit Challenges Federal Plan To Increase Delta Water Exports Federal Government Slashes Fish Protection In California, Northwest Judge Rules That Bureau of Reclamation Violated ESA On San Joaquin River Warm Flows Imperil Feather River Salmon Run Federal Audit Questions Integrity of Bush Water Policy Governor Slashes Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Budget Federal Government Puts Hatchery And Wild Salmon Under Same Umbrella Anglers Ask DFG: Where Is The Delta Stamp Money? Conservation Groups File Suit To Stop Fish Kills On Butte Creek Decline In Delta Forage Species Alarms Fishery Scientists Federal Agents Conduct Investigation of Steelhead Poisoning At Monterey Bay Hatchery Department of Interior Backs Down On Attempted Raid Of Trinity Water Feds Propose Threatened Listing For Sacramento River Green Sturgeon Recreational Anglers Defeat Bill To Gut Trawl Legislation Report Lists Klamath, Salmon Rivers Among State's Most Threatened Wild Places Cutbacks On North Coast Salmon Seasons Result From 2002 Fish Kill Klamath River Tribes, Fishermen Rally To Remove Dams Governor Withdraws Nomination of Commissioner Under Pressure Bush Administration Renews Central Valley Contracts At Expense of Fish Klamath Basin Farmers Win Technical Victory, But Coho Listing Stays Big Win for Salmon & Tribes: Westlands Won't Appeal Trinity River Legal Victory Cold, Dead Fish And Shiny Steelhead Awards For 2004 Report Reveals Enormous Cost of Agricultural Water Subsidies
2004
NOAA Fisheries Abandons Salmon Restoration Promising Steelhead Run Follows Behind American River Salmon Wild Salmon Returns On Klamath Tributaries At Record Lows Fish Restoration Activists Forge Ahead After the Election NOAA Fisheries Releases Gutted Report To Justify Increased Delta Diversions State And Federal Government Rush Plan To Increase Delta Diversions Governor Signs Trawl Bill, Other Environmental Legislation Into Law Bureau of Reclamation Water Management Imperils American River Fish Coastside BOD Response To Delta Water Going South Action Alert: Save California Salmon - Block the Contracts! McCloud River Indians Hold Ceremonial Protest To Stop Shasta Dam Expansion The American River's Hidden Fish Kill Federal Judge Says: Let The San Joaquin Flow! The American River's Hidden Fish Kill: 181,000 Salmon Die Before Spawning Scottish Power Makes Commitment to Klamath River Tribes During Scotland Trip AB 2280 Defeated, But Fish and Game Preservation Fund Audit Approved Court Orders Restoration of Trinity River Flows! Tribes, Fishermen Take Klamath River Fight To Scottish Power NOAA Fisheries Releases Hatchery Policy In Face Of Criticism From Fish Groups Senate Passes Bill Restricting Bottom Trawling Last Minute Rally of River Activists Prevents Raid On Parkway Funds Fishery Groups File Notice To Sue Feds, PG&E Over Butte Creek Fish Kills Biologists Try to Unravel Mysteries of American River Steelhead Sen. Alpert, Oceana and United Anglers Join To Restrict Bottom Trawling River Advocates: Funding For Parks and Park Rangers Is Imperative SB1319 Draws Mixed Reviews From Anglers United Anglers Halibut Derby Set For April 24-25 UAC Plans To Raise White Seabass in S.F. Bay ACTION ALERT! American River Parkway, April 13th Meeting Sacramentans Rally Against Proposed Parkway Closure Winter Run Recovery Points To Longer Salmon Season Next Year Hoopa Valley Tribe Marches To Restore The Trinity Ryan Broddrick's Vision For The Department of Fish And Game: Interview With The New Director Fishery Restoration And 'Enviro-Bashing' Don't Mix Alameda Pulls Out of Trinity River Legal Battle Cold, Dead Fish & Shiny Steelhead Awards For 2003 Budget Cuts Threaten To Close American River Parkway Anglers Concerned About Impact Of Nimbus Hatchery Weir Replacement Project
2003
California Ban On GloFish Ignites Debate Over 'Frankenfish' State Budget Cuts Threatened Klamath River Salmon Recovery Fishing In The City Program Brings Trout And Catfish To Urban Ponds Governor Appoints Mike Chrisman As Resources Secretary Port of Oakland Pulls Out of Trinity River Lawsuit Senate Puts Pork Barrel Energy Bill On Hold Until January PG&E Pleads Ignorance To Sediment Spill On Butte Creek Spawning Beds PFMC Uses 'Best Available Garbage' To Close Rockcod and Lingcod Season Judge Puts Hold on California Rockfish Closure Mystery Shrouds DFG Director's Resignation NRC Klamath Report Recommendations Include Dam Removal SB 590 Would Guarantee Funds For Fish Hatcheries Hoopa Tribe, Federal Government Rejects Westlands Trinity Proposal Klamath Basin Conference Participants Discuss Solutions To Fishery Problems Federal Government Intervenes in Butte Creek Salmon Disaster Thousands of Klamath Fish Die After Power Company Shuts Off Water Department of Interior Launches Probe Into Klamath Basin Decisions Over 8,000 Threatened Salmon Die In Warm Water On Butte Creek Bush Administration Releases Trinity Water In Wake of Iron Gate Scandal Closed Door Napa Pact Opens Door To Increased Water Exports UAC, UASC Join Forces to Raise White Seabass Sanctuary Advisory Council Defers Decision On Marine Reserves Federal Judge Rules Coho Plan Is Illegal Water 2025 Conference A Big Sham ACTION ALERT! Congressman Herger Tries To Censor Klamath Council Palo Alto Follows SMUD In Withdrawing From Trinity Lawsuit! Wild Salmon Fisheries Threatened by Genetically Engineered Fish Trawling Legislation Made Into Two Year Bill SMUD Board Completes Withdrawal From Trinity River Legal Battle Proposed Trout Hatchery Cuts Draw Wrath Of Anglers Klamath Moves To Second Place On Endangered Rivers List Judge Orders Minimum Flows for San Joaquin River Salmon SMUD Board Withdraws From Trinity Lawsuit! It's Time For SMUD To Stop Blocking Trinity Restoration Attempted Fish Rescue Points Out Need For Dam Removal On Alameda Creek DFG, Fish Groups Blast Bureau For Fish Kill On American River Commission Finally Shuts Down Spot Prawn Trawls! Trout Unlimited Alarmed At NOAA Threat To Remove Steelhead Protections Coastside Files Lawsuit Against State For Removing Anglers From The Water Recreational Anglers To Suffer Most From Proposed DFG Budget Cuts Cold, Dead Fish & Shiny Steelhead Awards For 2002 Calaveras King Salmon Die Before Spawning Because Of CALFED's Inaction
2002
Coastside Fishing Club Launches Lawsuit To Fight Rockfish Closures Barriers to Salmon Migration On Marin Creek Prioritized for Repair SMUD Has Its Fingerprints On Dead Klamath Fish Thompson's Bill Targeting Klamath River Water Crisis Needs Anglers Support! CSPA Charges PG&E With Killing Butte Creek Spring Chinooks Fishermen File Lawsuit Against Klamath Ten Year Plan Bush Administration Water Cuts Result In Massive Fish Kill On Klamath River PFMC Imposes Further Restrictions On Recreational Rockfish Anglers Commission Mandates Recreational Preference For Inshore Rockfish DFG Investigation Results In Felony Conspiracy Charge Against Vocal Party Boat Captain Yolo County Farmers Attempt To Ban Bank Fishing On Sacramento River SMUD Board Decides To Stay In Alliance With Westlands Stampede Water Level Keeps Dropping To Meet Fishery, Agricultural Needs Tribes, Anglers Blast SMUD For Blocking Trinity River Restoration Council Closes the Shelf for Rockfish and Lingcod! PFMC Mismanagement Leads To Dramatic Rockfish Declines Study Says Global Warming Will Have Big Impact Upon Trout & Salmon Judge Allows Bureau of Reclamation To Strand Klamath River Salmon NMFS To Decide On Green Sturgeon Listing In June Tribes Get 100,000 Acre Feet More Water For Trinity River NMFS Says No To Critical Salmon & Steelhead Habitat Cal Trout Brings Cities, Golf Courses Together To Restore Lake Merced Alameda Creek Alliance Pushes Steelhead Restoration Plan Forward Restoration Efforts Increasing Abundance of Sac, Klamath Salmon Winter Run Chinook Numbers Soar From ESA Enforcement Support Needed For CSPA's Suisun Creek Project! Cold, Dead Fish & Shiny Steelhead Awards For 2001: The Worst and Best in Fishery Conservation
2001
United Anglers Wins Big Victory In Merced River Settlement A Virtual Declaration Of War On California's Sport Fishermen Pacific Lumber Axes Coho Salmon Habitat In "Headwaters Hole" Badly Flawed Western Water Bill Clears House Committee PFMC Cuts 2 Months of Rockfishing In Central California Thousands of Kokanee Die After Flows Cut In Taylor Creek Mike O'Connell, Captain & Fish Sniffer Columnist, Passes Away At 60 Judge's Ruling For Alsea Valley Alliance Misinterpreted, Say Conservationists Emergency Closure Of Offshore Rockfish And Lingcod Sport Fisheries South of Cape Mendocino Starts October 29 Low, Hot Flows Endanger Feather River Salmon & Steelhead Woodacre Community Struggles To Build A 'Fish Friendly' Ballfield United Anglers Begins Petition Drive To Stop Fishing Closures DFG Recommends No Action On Bay Commercial Salmon Fishery Anglers Critical Of Marine Protected Area Proposal Fishing Groups Sue State Water Board Over Yuba River Decision Feinstein, Calvert Introduce Bills to Divert More Central Valley Water Feds Halt Striped Bass Pen Rearing Program Congressman Doug Ose Attempts To Thwart Trinity River Restoration Anglers Protest Proposal For Commercial Salmon Fishing In S.F. Bay Electricity Emergency Relief Act Threatens Salmon Restoration May 20th Update CSPA Files Complaint w/Water Board Over "Horrendous" Yuba R Decision Anglers Launch Petition Drive to Stop Commercial Nearshore Fishing Rec. Fishery Groups Press For Federal Ban On Pelagic Long Lines Key to Restoring Cent. Val. Steelhead Is To Connect Upstream Habitat Expedited Clean Up Needed on the East Walker River Shiny Steelhead & Cold, Dead Fish Awards, 2000 CalTrout Files Action To Save Lake Merced Sportsmen Should Push Bush Admin To Support Roadless Policy DFG Suspends Aerial Plants To Protect Frogs
2000
Bruce Babbitt Issues Decision To Return Trinity River Water EBMUD & Sacramento Officials Reach Tentative Water Accord ACTION ALERT:YCWA Contests Water Board Draft Decision on Lower Yuba ACTION ALERT: Trinity Basin Environmental Impact Statement RFA Norcal Chair Questions Provisions Of 'Freedom To Fish Act' Anglers Win Historic Victory In Defeating Proposed Rockfish Cuts Congress Approves Congressman Miller's Bill To Expand Water Supply & Save Steelhead RFA Blasts Resumption Of Foreign Fishing In U.S. Waters Gray Davis is the Governor For Sale UAC Urges Hight To Make Near Shore Gill Net Closure Permanent A Poaching "Community"? Rockcod Anglers Gear Up With Battle Big Sewage Spill Puts City Of Sacramento On Hot Seat Big Fish Kill On Weber Reservoir United Anglers Blasts Nat'l Park Service For Merced R. Sewage Spill WaterKeepers Sue U.C. Davis For Polluting Putah Creek Environmentalists & Anglers Target "Perfect Storm" Fishing Fleet CA Anglers Score Victory Defeating Anchovy Reduction Permit NMFS 4-D Rules Could Hurt California Steelhead Restoration Efforts New Video Spotlights Urban Stream Restoration Techniques NOAA Proposal to Protect Marine Sanctuaries from Oil Spills Approved Forest Service Plan Will Not Protect Sierra Fish & Wildlife Recreational Fishing Alliance Supports Bid to Restrict Texas Shrimpers Stop Exotics, Clean Your Boat It's The Habitat Recreational Fishing Alliance Support Lawsuit To Ban Drift Gillnets Fax A Letter to Gov. Davis to Protect CA Salmon! ACTION ALERT Big Yes Votes On Propositions 12 and 13 Bode Well For CA Fisheries Anglers Should Attend Monterey Bay Ecosystem Forum On March 14 MTBE ACTION ALERT! Upper Eel Watershed Forum Proposes Pike Minnow Derby
1999
Dan McCorquodale Would Be A Great Choice For DFG Director Broken Water Gauge Causes Mistaken Closing of Van Duzen Outcry by Anglers Saves 700,000 Coleman Hatchery Salmon DWR Backs Down On Plan to Dewater Feather River Marines Help Bruce Babbitt Blow Up Dams National Marine Fisheries Service Proposes New Rules to Protect West Coast Salmon, Steelhead Anglers Should Learn Basics of Safe Boating
1998
What's The Impact of Mitten Crabs On Bay-Delta Fisheries? Fish Ladder on Guadalupe River Promises Hope For Salmon And Steelhead Recovery Launch And Entry Fees At State And County Parks Offer A Dilemma During Off Season SB 1966 Stops Logging Activities Of Companies Destroying Coho Salmon Habitat Federal Government Lists Northern California Coho As Threatened Peripheral Canal Looms Over Our Delta Fishery Again Workshop Strives For Solutions To Salmonid/SeaLion Interactions ESA Listings Won't Help Salmon Unless State and Feds Fix Habitat Problems News & Review Article Misses Mark By Lumping Sportsmen With Developers
1997
Exotic Species Take A Toll In California Fisheries; Heftier Rewards Needed? Sportsmen's Support Essential To Supporting ESA, Superfund Authorization Is Bead Fishing A Legal Method Or Not? More Enforcement Of Fish And Game Laws Needed To Stop Feather River Snagging Epidemic Could Global Warming Affect California Fisheries? Sierra Club Declares US Forestry A Failure