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Post by tzietak on Nov 7, 2009 20:46:16 GMT -5
That's a really nice Atlantic Salmon. They really are not as environmentally sensitive as people think. Their biggest enemy is that they are netted in the open ocean and at the mouths of the rivers when they return. You can look at some of the reports from Norway in the Trondheim Fjord where they bought out 99% of the netters and the first year they had a 275% increase in the number of redds counted by biologists. That many more spawning salmon can restock a river in a relatively short time. I think the number of redds in the Gaula River was in the 250-350 range and the first year of no netting it jumped to over 825 redds. Don't net the salmon and they'll take care of the rest.
I fish Quebec every year and the years that there is little netting there is such an increase in the number of fish that it is a wonder that they are allowed to net wild Atlantics at all. Its definitely the best gamefish on the planet although a bit difficult to hook under certain conditions.
Was that fish caught on a LE or LO trib?
Tim Zietak
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Post by Brad the Golden Guide on Nov 27, 2009 19:26:15 GMT -5
Those fish are amazing. I have caught a few on the LO tribs. But for whatever reason I seem to get more on the Finger Lakes. The figt the fish offer is incredible. They are very aggresive. True story and this has happened to me more than once. I fish under a float on the lakes from shore in the dead of winter here on the finger lakes. All of a sudden a silver bullet comes flying out of the water. Over the bobber, not once, not twice but 3 times and then a second later, float is being pulled under. I just love the aggresiveness of the Atlantic and they are so good looking. I almost always practice catch and release but there are also an excellent tasting fish. Right up there with Walleye in my opinion. Nice fish!!!
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Post by Chris C Crane on Nov 27, 2009 22:29:44 GMT -5
Might be a little off course. We have been stocking Atlantics in LO tribs over the last few years. some decent sized have been released this season. www.bringbackthesalmon.ca/
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Post by Jake Kwapiszeski on Dec 2, 2009 11:51:55 GMT -5
I guess I am spoiled living up here in maine...landlocks and brookies are about all i fish for. I also work for a professor her who got his undergrad at ESF and worked on salmon production in the salmon river. He tells me that one of the main factors holding them back is thyaminase (spp?) which occurs in the alewives. Being a top level carnivore, this enzyme accumulates in atlantic salmon body tissues and repro organs and results in near total reproductive failure. The enzyme also occurs in rainbow smelt, but not as bad. It's sourse is unknown, but it is believed to be made by bacteria living in the body tissues of the forage fish. Salmon in the great lakes were evolved to eat lake and round whitefish, which do not contain the enzyme, and since that forage base has been extirpated, there really isnt a good chance for recovery, however, there has been an increase in reproduction in the salmon river for whatever reason... wild salmon returns to the penobscot river have also increased in recent years. I have also helped with some research which is looking at the effects smallmouth bass on salmon in streams. It is expected that the bass outcompete salmon for feeding lies, forcing the salmon to rest in energetically stressful territories (ie faster current).
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