Canada Fishing Info

Farmed Atlantic salmon has gone up anywhere from 50 to 75 cents a pound in the past few weeks, and wild Pacific salmon is at an all-time high. Salmon is caught off the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada from spring through fall in scores of discrete “runs. Before fishing begins, the National Marine Fisheries measures how many salmon are returning and decides whether there are enough of them to permit commercial fishing. In the case of the chinook salmon returning to California’s Sacramento River this spring (which accounts for 90 percent of that state’s commercial catch), the 2008 estimate was 50,000 to 60,000 fish, according to Brian Gorman, of the federal agency’s Northwest region. After a month of weekly price increases totaling about 65 cents, Sasso finally raised his retail price of Canadian farmed salmon from $14. read more

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