What huge fish. Wow ..read more

From left: Peter Morgan, Des Yardley, Graeme and Bruce Hobbs. Looks like 13 sea-run salmon and a brace of sea-run brown trout caught in Canterbury’s mighty Rakaia River back in 1977. Total weight 220-pounds. Take away the two trout and the average weight of the salmon would be around 16-pounds each, notwithstanding there are four or five bigger fish displayed. Over the years the daily bag limit was reduced from 6 down to 4, then from 4 down to 2, and then starting last year for the 2021/2022 season, a whole season bag limit of just 2 sea-run salmon was introduced for the first time ever in Ne ..read more

What huge fish. Wow ..read more

From left: Peter Morgan, Des Yardley, Graeme and Bruce Hobbs. Looks like 13 sea-run salmon and a brace of sea-run brown trout caught in Canterbury’s mighty Rakaia River back in 1977. Total weight 220-pounds. Take away the two trout and the average weight of the salmon would be around 16-pounds each, notwithstanding there are four or five bigger fish displayed. Over the years the daily bag limit was reduced from 6 down to 4, then from 4 down to 2, and then starting last year for the 2021/2022 season, a whole season bag limit of just 2 sea-run salmon was introduced for the first time ever in Ne ..read more

From left: Peter Morgan, Des Yardley, Graeme and Bruce Hobbs. Looks like 13 sea-run salmon and a brace of sea-run brown trout caught in Canterbury’s mighty Rakaia River back in 1977. Total weight 220-pounds. Take away the two trout and the average weight of the salmon would be around 16-pounds each, notwithstanding there are four or five bigger fish displayed. Over the years the daily bag limit was reduced from 6 down to 4, then from 4 down to 2, and then starting last year for the 2021/2022 season, a whole season bag limit of just 2 sea-run salmon was introduced for the first time ever in Ne ..read more

NZ King Salmon shares have lost 71% of their value this year – 5 things you should know New Zealand King Salmon’s Ruakaka farm in the Queen Charlotte Sound. (File photo) Investors in New Zealand King Salmon have had a torrid year. The salmon farmer’s shares have the unfortunate accolade of being the worst performer on the sharemarket, having lost 71% of their value. So what’s behind the slump? A really, really bad year NZ King Salmon reported a loss of $73 million for the year to the end of January. A lot of its fish died as a result of warmer sea temperatures over summer, so it decided to cha ..read more

Years of work and a law change help pull dwindling salmon population back from the brink A salmon at Manuka Point in the Rakaia’s upper reaches. In the icy upper reaches of the Rakaia River, Fish and Game officers watch their efforts pay dividends from the sky. Last year, the agency brandished the only weapon in its arsenal to turn around dwindling salmon numbers, and aerial counts in the high-country headwaters of Canterbury’s braided rivers show it could be working. Fish & Game introduced a bag limit of two sea-run salmon per angler in Canterbury and North Otago for the first time this s ..read more

Fishery Disaster for King (Chinook)salmon Returns to Alaska’s Famed Kenai River By Craig Medred 31 July 2021 A lucky angler with a child-size king salmon of the sort that used to be common in the Kenai River/ADF&G photo After two years of dismal Chinook returns to the Kenai River, the state’s most famous salmon stream is this year on the way to setting a new record for dismal as a long, downward spiral continues. Long gone are the days of daily battles with monster “kings” as Alaskans call these salmon. Increasingly a distant memory is the world-record, 97-pound, 4-ounce fish the size of ..read more

Angler’s alluring catch gives council salmon to talk about A council ranger has been rewarded with a case of beer after helping an angler reel in a large salmon in Marlborough. Retiree and fisherman Alex Kole​ thought his second cast on the morning of February 12 had become tangled in the Wairau River, north of Renwick, when “zing, across the river it went”. “I thought, ‘I know what this is,’ but I was using a six-pound trout line. I knew it I pulled too hard the fish would be history,” Kole said. It took him 35 minutes to coax the salmon into a groyne – a rock wall built by the Marlborough D ..read more

There were only two salmon caught in the Annual Waimakariri River Salmon Fishing Competition held on 13 March 2021 ..read more