Northwest Salmon In Peril, And Efforts To Save Them Scale Up
With Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead on the brink of extinction, there are new efforts being brokered to save the famed fish.
This past fall, Idaho officials took the extraordinary step of closing the Clearwater River to salmon and steelhead trout fishing, leaving guides like Jeremy Sabus scrambling to find other work.
"It's six weeks of my favorite time of the year, you get to shake hands with 3-foot trout," Sabus says.
Billed as one of the top destinations for salmon fishing in the United States, the Clearwater cuts through steep gorges in northern Idaho before dumping into the Snake and eventually, Columbia rivers. Every year, salmon and steelhead make an epic 500-mile or longer journey upstream from the ocean to spawn.
But this winter their runs
