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Changes coming to Idaho’s Clearwater River steelhead season

In Idaho by Eric Crawford

The Clearwater River Fisheries Working Group was tasked with providing recommendations to IDF&G that addressed both complaints from the angling community and mitigation of impacts on fish and angling opportunity due to overlaps of the fall chinook and steelhead fisheries. Here are the proposals and results.

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Idaho steelhead forecast: optimism or realism?

In Idaho by Eric Crawford

These days, good news in the wild steelhead arena is rare. Poor ocean survival, habitat degradation, hydro system mortality, a warming climate with associated increased water temperature — wild steelhead have a lot going against them.