By Melanie Parker, Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife How’d We Get Here? So how did the Pacific halibut fishery end up the way it did in 2015? It was the culmination of work that occurred over several …
Rockfish and Halibut Season Winter 2016
By Tom Marking GAP Sports Rep The North Coast will see a slight increase in Halibut this summer. At the IPHC meeting in Juneau last week, the Commission yielded to the pressure put on them by the advisory bodies and …
Update on Pacific Halibut Age, Growth, and Maturation Thesis Project
By: Miki Takada In the summer 2015 HASA Newsletter, I reported that I had collected 219 Pacific halibut samples, from Northern California and Southern Oregon. Thanks to the assistance of many of you, I ended up with 268 samples by …
The Klamath River – Past and …Future? (Part 2)
By Larry De Ridder In our last issue we looked at some of the issues surrounding the proposed removal of four large dams on the Upper Klamath River, particularly at what an actual dam removal might look like. The government …
Klamath River Basin Fall Run Chinook Salmon Update
By Bob Smith (aka RBob) – HASA Salmon Representative While it’s still too soon to really know for sure how the 2016 ocean salmon season will shake out, we are beginning to get a clearer picture of last fall’s Klamath …
Reading Nautical Charts
By Larry De Ridder We’ve received a couple of requests recently for information to help boaters interpret what their charts display. So, here goes. First off, there are four different types of charts, classed primarily by the area size they …
The Klamath River – Past and …Future?
By Larry De Ridder The Klamath River hosts the third largest salmon run on the west coast of the United States, behind only the Columbia and Sacramento systems. We, as salt water anglers, harvest many fish which originate in this …
Humboldt Currents Winter 2016
By Casey Allen Once again, local photographer and HASA member Rick Urban, “the fishing mortician,” provided another great photo for this issue’s cover. It’s one of my favorites of the Coast Guard Life Saving Station with the winter moon, a …
Marine Resource Education Program
By Tom Marking The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) has developed an educational program to better inform sportsmen, managers, legislatures and those interested in Fishery Management and Science of the how and why of the Council Management Process. Tim …
President’s Message Winter 2016
By Scott McBain First, I would like to welcome our four new HASA board members (Dirk Pederson, Jed Douglas, Michael Davies-Hughes, and Eric Stockwell, see page 23), I hope they find it as enjoyable and reward-ing as I have. I …