Pinks in the great lakes

The story I've always heard is that some fry originally intended for a Hudson Bay release were washed (or released into) a drain that went into a Lake Superior tributary river next to the hatchery.
 
Pinks are now being caught by fishermen in the Atlantic Salmon river that I have been fishing north of the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. Apparently Norwegian fisheries managers are finding this to be a very troubling change in the health of these rivers.
 
My understanding is that the pinks in Norway are a significant problem for their Atlantic salmon. The source of those pinks is likely from Russian introducing them from the Pacific coast to the rivers of Kola Peninsula in the 1950s. From there they have expanded their range into the Atlantic with at least occasional reports as far south as Great Britian.

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speedbird said:
My favorite marine biology story I like to share with people right next to Herschel beating the van back to the locks
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That particular Herschel legend may not be 100% accurate.

"Herschel began to take on a mythical status. Many people still believe that the sea lion and his posse beat the truck returning from California, says Jay Wells, former visitor center manager at the locks—though whether Herschel was actually one of the animals trucked away is unclear. “It’s just one of the stories that develop as the mythology deepens,” says Wells. “There’s no way the animal returned that quickly unless he was swimming at 80 miles per hour [129 kilometers per hour].” Sea lions can swim in burst speeds up to 40 kilometers per hour, but generally cruise at around 17 kilometers per hour."
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Herschel, the Very Hungry Sea Lion | Hakai Magazine

It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.
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Well if Herschel didn’t, I’ve got a similar story that is one of my favorites. My first real job was at the UW in the Environmental Health and Safety Department in 1990. The geese were an issue and they tried all sorts of things to try and deal with them. We were told of one failed effort where they gathered a bunch up and trucked them to eastern Washington. They said those geese beat the truck back. They tried it again later but this time they clipped their wings a bit. It took them only as long as the time for their wings to grow back to return to campus.
 
DKL said:
Well if Herschel didn’t, I’ve got a similar story that is one of my favorites. My first real job was at the UW in the Environmental Health and Safety Department in 1990. The geese were an issue and they tried all sorts of things to try and deal with them. We were told of one failed effort where they gathered a bunch up and trucked them to eastern Washington. They said those geese beat the truck back. They tried it again later but this time they clipped their wings a bit. It took them only as long as the time for their wings to grow back to return to campus.
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The UW geese have hatred and violence in their souls. I feared them.
 
Smalma said:
My understanding is that the pinks in Norway are a significant problem for their Atlantic salmon. The source of those pinks is likely from Russian introducing them from the Pacific coast to the rivers of Kola Peninsula in the 1950s. From there they have expanded their range into the Atlantic with at least occasional reports as far south as Great Britian.

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If I remember right pinks are mentioned in some mikeal frodins videos and think he was saying they are due to fish farms trying them ? Definitely not wanted by fishermen though.
 
The story I heard as a kid was that the pinks escaped from some facility near Thunder Bay. By the late 70s they in most of the MN tribs at least. Big pink in Those streams was 17”.
 
Cool story:

Trout fished the Brule river on Minnesota's North shore in September many years ago and had a few pinks swipe at my streamer. Couldn't get them to connect.
 
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