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Tholen Blasko
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Registrace 30. 10. 2012
Fish nerd for Washington State University and the
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife!
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife!
Chum Salmon Returning to a Puget Sound Tributary
This video shows chum salmon actively preparing to spawn in a Puget Sound tributary river. What other species of fish can you spot in these clips?
*Background songs include various classical piano arrangements
*Background songs include various classical piano arrangements
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Winter Steelhead Float
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Floated an Eastern Washington river to test a new Cataraft. had a fun day with great friends and even found a couple fish!
Chinook Salmon Recovery on the Post-Dam Elwha River
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Video version of my Honors Thesis for the Washington State University Honors College. This thesis was presented live on Zoom Tuesday, April 6th, at 9:00 AM. The project was Passed with Distinction, and the corresponding paper was published in the Washington State Libraries Research Exchange. (doi.org/10.7273/000003760)
Fly Fishing Boulder Mountain, Utah
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Amazing family backpacking trip up the Boulder while visiting my grandparents this summer! There are some amazing fish on this mountain. If you are in the area make sure to visit the Quiet Fly Fisher fly shop!
Westslope Cutthrout & Golden Trout, Cascade Mountains
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Followed a rumor of Golden Trout to a lake in the Cascades to find they do indeed live there, along with some hungry Westslopes!
Fly Fishing for Tiger Trout, Central Utah
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Found some tiger trout in Utah that really wanted to eat balanced damsels! Netted double-digit numbers of fish with a few pushing 20-inches!
Fly Fishing Medical Lake, Washington
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Got into some nice rainbows and a few crappie on Medical Lake. Remember this is a barbless fishery with all motor-types prohibited.
Fly Fishing for Some Huge Utah Rainbows
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Produced this video for my grandpa, who's been getting into some huge fish down in Utah.
Big Rainbows and Balanced Leeches
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Hard to beat balanced simi seal leeches when fishing for stocked bows in stillwater!
Fly Fishing Lost Lake in Sultan, WA
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Lost Lake near Lake Chaplain hike in and fly fishing. We were glad to get this in before the WDFW shut down all state fisheries. Skill with a GPS is helpful for reaching this lake, as there is not a marked trail.
Kamiak Butte: An Examination
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This video is a final project for the Washington State University SOE 300 course.
Were So Swaggy (Music Video)
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The most anticipated music video of the 21st century! Project for our music appreciation class!
Stevens Pass 13-14 Ski Year
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Videos recapping the awesome ski season at Stevens Pass last year!
awesome video! headed there next week and this got us excited!
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Yoooo this is fire🔥
I hope you or another student can do a follow up report. Many dams are being removed now as they are aging out and out weighing the energy production benefits. I've noticed in other dam removals that it's becoming more effective and the volunteers assist in many capacities. The assistance of native peoples reseeding also helps in ecosystem recovery. Thanks for having your paper available on YT.
Say...How about getting some of the Kenai River King Salmon into the gene pool...Get some fertilized eggs and transplant?
Steelhead
Well done.
Josephine
Nobody asked you
I don't see a need to have been asked. The lake and fish are public property, and the fish are there to provide fishing opportunity to the public. By the way, I'm one of the people who put the fish into the lake, in cooperation with the WDFW. @@se4000
Informative report. Thanks. It's encouraging to see rivers return to their natural state and to see salmon making a comeback.
Well Done Presentation!
Good. Now fine yourself $50.00 for every cliche (one word and phrases) you used, then start again.
I enjoyed this. I can say from firsthand experience on the effects of the debris in the lower Elwha area. I lived there during this time and it was an incredible sight to see. Every morning and evening presented a new beach. The sand and wood that showed up one day was gone by I got home from work. In the mornings, there started to be a collection of eagles hunting their breakfast and sunbathing. I started to see the beach grow and grow. More seagulls also started to show up as well as seeing for the first time seals on the beach. there was obviously some food and nutrients that brought these creatures here. nevertheless, It was such a privilege to experience the re-birth of the Elwha. and your report was a pleasure to watch. I really love what your honors Advisor said about you too. That was moving! I was just there a couple months ago and got to sleep on the beach and wake up to the beautiful sun. Thank you friend. May our paths meet! I'm not here to promote my channel but I did a video of Elwha beach while i was there and I think you may enjoy it very much. czcams.com/video/ghqHDmNHBQ4/video.html
Thank you for sharing your first-hand account of the evolution of the freed river, as well as your beautiful video. It is inspiring how the restoration of the Elwha has touched so many lives.
I think that just like the worry about how fast the rivers recover (faster then everyone thought) that the fish recovery will be much faster then expected
Got it Tholen - What did the Chinese do different in the Tree Gorges Dam? They have a Fish race up the side beside the ship lift. Got it Tholen Blasko Got it! we as Humans are going to make a difference on earth so Is't it Our Personal Generational Job to work out how to make a fish stairs. Got it Tholen - Frankly the Fish need to get up there but that does not include taking dam's out How did the Chinese do it?
Using hatchery chinook salmon is the main reason it will take 100 years for complete restoration of chinook salmon in the Elwha River. The quicker they eliminate hatchery chinook salmon the faster the wild chinook salmon are restored in the Elwha River.
100 years not 99 not 101 nobody knows this sort of time estimate. In 100 years since 1922 things all over the world have changed, so real scientists do not make these sort of statement predictions, stick to 10 or 20 or maybe 30 years on this subject
That's absolutely false hatchery reform and sending surplus hatchery fish to the spawning grounds will save wild Chinook, unfortunately there's too much money in endangered salmon and Steelhead runs and they aren't willing to follow the science.
"Hatchery produced salmon and steelhead successfully established to provide harvest fisheries often have had negative impacts on wild conspecifics because management decisions and hatchery operations were unrelated to the biological needs of either the introduced or the recipient populations. Reforms, therefore, are necessary in the man- agement of fisheries that will address the biological needs of anadromous salmonid populations, and reforms are necessary in hatchery programs that will assure hatchery fish are compatible genetically and behaviorally with the recipient population. Artificially propagated salmon and steelhead populations repre- sent the evolutionary legacy and genetic constitution of the native fish from which they originated. Hatchery fish, therefore, can main- tain population sizes sufficiently large to avoid inbreeding and genetic drift, maintain and increase genetic diversity, and provide security against risk of extinction by supplementing, enhancing, and otherwise sustaining the parent population. Excess hatchery fish from the local population should not be prevented from spawning in the wild and contributing to the wild segment of the population" salmonchronicles.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/brannon-afs-hatchery-study.pdf
The salmon are back in big numbers don’t listen to the idiots who say otherwise, plenty of trout too.
Gracias. la musica tambien....life will find a way
Nice footage. Good to see a post again.
The real story of the Elwha River. Eliminate fishing/overfishing and fish come back. Salmon populations will decline again once tribal fishing is opened back up, this is inevitable as the Tribes and State have demonstrated their lack of competence in managing fisheries.
Tholen I happened upon your video by chance. You did an amazing job with your research and presentation. Thank you. You won a new subscriber.
I don't think just removing the dams WE made is enough. I think we also need to re-introduce Beavers. I also think that the removal of the dams will have further beneficial effects on the local environment. The increase in the size of the Elwha Delta looks like some Prime Real Estate for Geoducks. YUM! But we also don't want to get too crazy on those damn Dam removals, either. Dumping that much sediment into the Puget Sound and Hood Canal at once would definitely be counterproductive. I am Captain Obvious, here to state The Obvious. Because one thing I have learned, the hard way, is that sometimes The Obvious is one of the easiest things to overlook. A marvelous job, and I hope to soon congratulate you for your Hooding Ceremony!
Thank you!
Nice. Been a while.
Excellent presentation. I've been saying for many decades that the way forward environmentally is now to walk ourselves back. Restoring salmon is a BIG part of that walk. Restoring the forests of the globe is another. Of course with all that said if we don't learn to cooperate, to endeavor collectively to a common beneficiality of purpose none of it will matter. Escaping in space ships is not an option.
I couldn't agree more! Thanks for watching!
That was a good report and recap of current conditions. I visited the Elwha prior to dam removal and remember a sight that will stay with me the rest of my life. You could walk on the lower dam and get a view of the river below. So, when I was there in early fall I walked out and viewed this beautiful river scene that was very impressive. What I did not expect to see were salmon swimming in circles at the base of the dam looking for a way to get past it. They were swimming endlessly in circles and it struck me as very sad. That event helped solidify my opposition to dams.
Thank you for sharing that story, allowing fish access to historic habitat is a great way to help bring back historic numbers!
The mice killed me, i can not tolerate that deep.
Good job! I hope to see more updates for 2022. This is a very important project. Hopefully we can get salmon back in the Salmon river if we can free the Columbia.
Thanks for your comment, I am also hopeful a new range report will be put together. I agree and have been recently working on some Snake River advocacy. Have a great day!
Great work, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
fascinating story; congratulations on completing this thesis work and making it publically available! Access to this kind of story should add strength to the movement for habitat restoration on a broader scale, not only for keystone species, but all the other beneficiaries within the biological communities that inhabit the same environment.
Elwha is free and salmon comming back baby thanks for making our oceans better
Best of luck Dude!!
Thank you!
Bravo!
What a thrilling story
If we REALLY want to do something about replenishing stocks of salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest, we are going to have to stop the groundfish trawlers in the Gulf Of Alaska, with their massive (and wasted) bycatch harvesting of salmon in their massive trawler nets. We can, and should repair the rivers, tributaries and watersheds, but until we stop those trawlers, the salmon will continue to decline....forever.
As your Honors Advisor, it was my pleasure to work with you and assist with some additional tasks like asking you to make this video BEFORE you presented to the committee. You did it and made your presentation match the great thesis you wrote. You passed with Distinction because it is who you are: a Distinguished Person.
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Batholithic conditions pre-Dam and after, in all Reaches possible to get more in-depth realizations of Streams to yearly flows, seasonal pulses, tidal influences, and connectivity of the Basin to Estuary Analysis of Anadromy within the River, rivals the traditional patterns of the various Salmonids, eel/lamprey complex, and other factors which constitute its Original Flora and Fauna in a broader Niche/Keynote Riparian Species and configure those components which now more Ecosystem-wide, Forests to Sea, Approach as was Ancestrally Acknowledged. Tidal influences and intrusion of Saltwater to the estuary and Lower Elwha should be adjusting to pre-Dam Era conditions and that is Crucial to smolts survival potentials across Anadromous Species, Holding cover, deeper pools, inter-channel Complexity of boulders, woody debris, and other natural factors will contribute to survival pre-Saltwater Lifestyles. Steelhead can negotitate
If we (human) give a chance to Nature that will find ways to recover but it will take time as human has ruined so much on the Elwha ecosystem. It will take several decades to recover the biodiversity of this area. We including politicians need to be patient. We won't be able to see to it but our future generations will be able to enjoy the beauty of it. I am so glad to see you have this subject as your Thesis. Hope you find success and fulfillment in your endeavour!
Thank you for your comment and support!
Thank you for putting this on youtube. I was interested to know the location of the dams on the river system and to see if the location of the dam in the river that impacted the amount of sediment. Once the dams are removed seeing the shore full of sediment was nice and made me appreciate the need for sediment as well as logs placed in river beds. It is great to see people committed to the environment and ways we can maintain the natural beauty of the pacific northwest. Keep up the good work and commitment to the environment.
Thanks for your comment Andy! We are starting some new work on the Elwha and I am thinking about making a video update soon!
I was hoping to see some more recent information on the impact of the Elwha dam removal. Thank you!
Thank you! There have been some interesting new papers coming out since I put out this report. I am also working on a new project and will post an update when I have results to report. Have a great day!
Great news overall. The post dam removal seasons were needed to flush the accumulated silt and gravel and bring it down to the mouth. Nice to see the former lake beds returning to natural greenery to help stabilize the banks. One thing I do remember are the giant black salamanders I would see swimming in the water along the shady banks of Lake Mills (upstream lake). Hope they found a home (post lake).
I hope so too! Have a great day!
Excellent presentation. The Elwha deserves it's freedom after so many years of being split into bits. Thanks for documenting the recovery process.
Thanks for the kind words!
surely we can wait a few extra years before fishing? some of Columbia tributaries below the Bonneville dam could be targeted to create unobstructed environments?
The fishing closure has been extended to at least July 2022, we were very glad to hear it!
I just watched the dam removal and as an angler, had to follow the recovery of the native fish. I'm going to make it a point to follow the Elwha project annually. Lastly you mention it will take 100 years to reach natural numbers, do the oceans have 100 years of life left? Nice to see someone has optimism!
The angling community is integral to recovery projects! Thank you for supporting native fish recovery. There is some great work being done to protect salmon during the saltwater portion of their migrations, we can only hope both aspects of their journey continue to support their presence.
Native fish? How can you have native fish when dam made them extinct.
@@cammontreuil7509 The dam did not make the entire species extinct. It only made them "Extinct" on THAT RIVER.
@@TimeSurfer206 strange comment.
Congratulations.
Thanks!
Nice report!
Thanks for checking it out!
That was very well presented and very informative. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for checking it out!
Hoping well fit the fish! ♥️👍
Good to know. Unsurprisingly, that criticism arise from the impatient.
Thanks for watching! Hopefully we will see continued progress in the years to come.
yes...more fish for our grandchildren
Projects like this provide hope for the future of pacific salmon!
Great Thesis, we moved to the area recently and hike along the river, great to hear the history of the damns and about recovery of the fish. We have seen a few salmon in the river ourselves between the two damns on hikes.
Thank you! That is great to hear!
Interesting.
Thanks for watching!