Not really sure about the plume. I’m guessing a mile of water will block most of the ash. On the other hand, I suspect the gases would form a plume. Just not a very visible one.
Yeah, most reputable news outlets have policies that they don’t release the names of juveniles accused or convicted of crimes unless they end up being certified to stand as adults.
I saw an article about some research results from the Samoan volcano that erupted recently??. It said that a lot of water vapor was ejected in to some really high layer of the atmosphere that made it beyond the level that would affect the weather of the planet directly. And there were tsunami waves that were pretty devastating.
A Pacific NW recreational fisherman made $164k over the summer for catching invasive fish.
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Seems like you’d want to remove juvenile pikeminnows too… the juveniles will eventually grow up. Why only mature pikeminnows?
IANAMarineBiologist.
Agree.
Interesting that the pikeminnow was always there, but was given an advantage due to humans’ damming up the river. Made lakes out of streams, which are favorable for pikeminnows over salmon.
Guessing it was harder to catch the juvenile salmon swimming downstream with the flow than it is to catch them trying to swim through a large, warm lake. Or something like that.
Our resident expert, that fishy guy, can weigh in.
This guy must be in fisherman heaven: getting paid this much for doing what he loves to do anyway.
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I wonder what these things taste like. This fish needs a predator, IMO.
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Yeah, kind of makes me want to take up pikeminnow fishing.
$164,000 in less than 5 months is pretty good money. You wouldn’t even have to work the rest of the year. The tax 
in me wonders if it’s reported on a 1099-NEC or a 1099-MISC and the implications for paying the self-employment tax on that income.
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The pikeminnow is a native species, so they aren’t trying to eliminate it. The large ones gobble up a lot of salmon fry, so apparently they are just trying to cut the numbers of large ones with this program:
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Google AI seems to confirm my suspicion that it does not taste that good.
“taste best when heavily seasoned…”
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My question is: Did he angle-fish all of these, or was a net involved?
Gonna guess, without any possible reason to assume otherwise, well, except for 16000 / 120 = over 100 fish caught per day
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More days available in this season, 5/1 to 9/30, but still it’s a boatload of fish per day in any event.
Literally!
Article did say 5/31, and they had to shut down early on 9/24 instead of 9/30. That’s 117 days… DTNF was likely approximating that as four 30-day months.
If the article was incorrect and it was actually 5/1 then obviously that adds another 30 days… so 147.
At 16,150 fish that’s either 138 or 110 fish per day, which is a lot.
Ah, OK. The program website linked above says 2025 season is 5/1 to 9/30. Of course they could run out of money earlier, but it sounds like 2024 was an exceptional season.
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And, looking at it a bit more logically, I’m guessing it is not working.
What happens to all these caught fish? I assume they are used in some recycling capacity, like cat food or something?
I would hope they use the dead fish in fertilizer or cat food, but have no idea.
They claim the program is successful. “Since the Sport-Reward Fishery was implemented in 1991, predation of juvenile salmon by Northern Pikeminnow has been reduced up to 40% through the removal of more than 5.4 million Northern Pikeminnow.”
I’m guessing they may have either cut the budget or increased the per fish bounty in recent years since they ran out of money. While 2024 was a higher catch than other recent years, it is still a lot lower than what they used to catch annually in this program. They’ve also never had a single person catch this many before.