Salmon

PCBs: Farmed Salmon vs. Wild Salmon - Is Farmed Salmon safe to eat? (Popularity: ) (Score: 12.77)
http://www.healthcastle.com/farmed-salmon.shtml
Discusses various reports on the safety of farmed salmon and PCBs and look into the current PCBs guidelines by various health agencies.
Category: Science\Environment\Environmental Health\Toxic Substances

Salmon Farms Pose Significant Threat To Salmon Fisheries In The Pacific Northwest (Popularity: ) (Score: 12.47)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030923064756.htm
Farm-raised salmon are causing both ecological problems and economic problems for the commercial fishing industry.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia

Columbia Basin Research (Popularity: ) (Score: 11.19)
http://www.cbr.washington.edu/
Efforts at the University of Washington to investigate issues surrounding salmon biology in the Columbia and Snake River basins. CBR research has produced computer models which simulate and predict salmon ...
Category: Science\Biology\Ecology\Aquatic Ecology

Downeast Salmon Federation (Popularity: ) (Score: 10.83)
http://www.mainesalmonrivers.org/
Focus is on Atlantic salmon conservation efforts in Maine. Provides news, event calendar, endangered areas, and membership information.
Category: Science\Environment\Organizations\Land Trusts

Pink Salmon: Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Popularity: ) (Score: 10.60)
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-45686--,00.html
Fact sheet about this introduced fish of the North American Great Lakes, known in its native Pacific Northwest as the humpback salmon. Includes image.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia

Salmon: Spirit of the Land and Sea (Popularity: ) (Score: 10.60)
http://www.oneworldjourneys.com/salmon/
An online photographic expedition on the biology of Pacific wild salmon in the coastal waters and rivers of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia

Watershed Watch Salmon Society (Popularity: ) (Score: 10.44)
http://www.watershed-watch.org/
Registered non-profit whose purpose is to conduct research, and educate the public about wild salmon and issues surrounding them. Information about fisheries and habitat management topics, particularly in Canada.
Category: Science\Biology\Ecology\Aquatic Ecology

Salmon-Safe (Popularity: ) (Score: 10.36)
http://www.salmonsafe.org
Non-profit organisation site with information about reducing agriculture's impacts on endangered salmon and steelhead habitat in the Pacific Northwest. Links to concerned organisations promoting GM-free products in Oregon.
Category: Science\Environment\Biodiversity\Agricultural

Wild Salmon Center (Popularity: ) (Score: 9.95)
http://www.wildsalmoncenter.org/
Non-profit organization dedicated to dedicated to protecting Pacific salmon, steelhead, char, and trout stocks and their ecosystems in the northern Pacific rim.
Category: Science\Environment\Biodiversity\Conservation

High Country, BC (Rocks, Minerals, Fossils) (Popularity: ) (Score: 7.11)
http://members.tripod.com/~ratcliffej/
Photos of a new fossilized salmon find
Category: Science\Earth Sciences\Paleontology\Vertebrates

Fish Passage Center (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.90)
http://www.fpc.org/
Current and historic data on salmon and steelhead in the Snake and Columbia river basins.
Category: Science\Biology\Ecology\Aquatic Ecology

Max Ledbetter (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.69)
http://www.thefishfinder.com/members/saltwater/ledbetter/
Competition and information among British Columbia salmon purse seiners: spatial analysis, past exploitation rates, comments.
Category: Science\Biology\Ecology\Aquatic Ecology

Atlantic Salmon: Salmo salar (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.69)
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-45639--,00.html
Fact sheet with photo, focused on this fish as it occurs in the North American Great Lakes, where it was introduced.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia

Nushagak-Mulchatna Wood-Tikchik Land Trust (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.63)
http://www.nmwtlandtrust.org/
Dedicated to preservation of salmon habitat. Includes organization information, news, maps, and ways to help.
Category: Science\Environment\Organizations\Land Trusts

Chinook Salmon: Oncorhynchus tschawytscha (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.50)
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-45663--,00.html
Fact sheet with image, focused on the North American Great Lakes, where populations are maintained by annual stream stocking programs.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia

Coho Salmon: Oncorhynchus kisutch (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.50)
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-45666--,00.html
Fact sheet, with image, describing this fish particularly as it occurs in the North American Great Lakes, where it is introduced and maintained by stocking programs.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia

Urban Streams (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.44)
http://www.urbanstreams.org
Directory of links to information to assist volunteers working to protect and restore streams and salmon habitat in the Pacific Northwest.
Category: Science\Environment\Directories\Regional

Atlantic Salmon: Salmo salar (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.38)
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Salmo_salar.html
Physical characteristics, preferred foods, life cycle, and conservation status of this ocean-going native of large cool rivers, now raised commercially worldwide.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia

Washington Trout (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.07)
http://www.washingtontrout.org/
Nonprofit science-based organization working to protect and restore Washington State's wild fish (including salmon) and their habitats. Site describes current stream survey and restoration projects.
Category: Science\Biology\Ecology\Aquatic Ecology

Trout Unlimited (Popularity: ) (Score: 6.04)
http://www.tu.org/
Private, non-profit organization whose mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America's trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds. Includes information on fisheries management topics.
Category: Science\Biology\Ecology\Aquatic Ecology