Salton Sea 9/24-26th

[NooB SaBass]

Went Last weekend, I have a few pics I'll throw up later, everyone got 5 Big Tilapia around 2.5-5bs each, some smaller models 1-2lbs and a but load of Sargo, the biggest was like 1.3lbs... To bad all the croakers and their adualt counterparts the famed Corvina are probably extinct... Good news? Tilapia get a pretty decent size so I guess they will be the new Apex predator's. Hopefully in the next years they clean it up and Dump some fresh water in there. Maybe find a bigger new Predator that can handle that salt. The salt is killing everything. Well except the Tilapia! hahaha

[NooB SaBass]

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[Ifishtoolittle]

Where's the Sargo and 2.5-5lb Tilapia?

[smokehound]

Sargo? I dont believe you.


You sure it wasnt just a funny-colored tilapia?

[FISH_HUNTER]

Sargo? I dont believe you.


You sure it wasnt just a funny-colored tilapia?

my thoughts exactly. haven't seen or heard of sargo in years.

[DockRat]

Once a great fishery but now is filled mostly by the New Rivet and the Alamo.
Cauion; It is Fed By The MOST POLLUTED RIVER IN THE USA.
Having lived in Brawley 3 1/2 years and woking in Calipatria 1/8 mile from the Sea the locals
down there avoid it.

Watch the second video and see the river problem. Then when it hits the USA there is alot of agricultare runoff
with pesticides and fertlizers. All the farms have leech lines and drain canals that drain into the New and Alamo Rivers then into the sea..


Miles and Miles of clean Corado River water Canals all over IV.
Catch clean Bass, Catfish. Fish the F/W Canals.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=036Uy5FhtA8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_(Mexico_%E2%80%93_United_States)

See truck dump raw sewage at 7:40 in video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW-B1oAK1fM

Today, the river flow is not natural, mostly consisting of agricultural runoff, municipal discharge and industrial dumping. The river has been referred to as the most severely polluted river of its size within the United States. Several projects have begun to reduce and mitigate the levels of pollution in the river, including upgrading sewage treatment infrastructure and enclosing the river channel.

Flow
The New River channel begins at a volcanic lake, near Cerro Prieto.[1] Today this lake feeds the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Power Station. The river flows north 15 miles (25 km) through Baja California and another 66 miles (100 km) through California into the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California. Flow at the border is approximately 200 ft³/s (6 m³/s), and about three times this flow at the Salton Sea because of collected agricultural discharges.

The New River’s flow is composed of waste from agricultural and chemical runoff from the farm industry irrigation in the U.S. (18.4%) and Mexico (51.2%), sewage from Mexicali (29%), and manufacturing plants operating in Mexico (1.4%). By the time the New River crosses the U.S./Mexico border near Calexico, California, the channel contains a stew of about 100 contaminants: volatile organic compounds, heavy metals (including selenium, uranium, arsenic and mercury), and pesticides (including DDT) and PCBs. The waterway also holds the pathogens that cause tuberculosis, encephalitis, polio, cholera, hepatitis and typhoid; levels for many of these contaminants are in violation of United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Cal/EPA standards by several hundredfold.[3] Fecal coliform bacteria are at levels of 100,000 to 16 million colonies per milliliter at the border checkpoint (possibly more, as this is the measuring capacity threshold), far above the U.S.-Mexico treaty limit of 240 colonies.[4][5]

The combined effects of increasing, highly polluted inflow from the New River and agricultural runoff have resulted in elevated bacterial levels and large algal blooms in the Salton Sea. With the lack of an outlet, salinity has increased by approximately 1% per year. Due to high selenium levels, the public was strictly advised to limit fish consumption from the Salton Sea in 1986, after which any amount was likely a health risk. Increasing water temperature, salinity and bacterial levels led to massive fish die-offs (1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2006, 2008), and created the ideal breeding grounds for Botulismavian botulism, cholera and Newcastle disease, which also led to massive avian epizootics from 1992-2008. Currently, the Salton Sea has a salinity of 4.4% (4.4 parts per 100), making it saltier than ocean water (3.5% for Pacific), and many species of fish are no longer able to reproduce or survive in the Salton Sea. It is now believed the tilapia may be the only fish species able to persist there for a limited time. Without restoration actions, the sea will likely increase in toxicity, and remain an ecological trap for avian species.



DR

[TROUT MASTERS]

Did you notice the lack of people fishing the Sea ?
That is because it is fed by the MOST POLLUTED RIVER IN THE USA.
Having lived in Brawley 3 1/2 years and woking in Calipatria 1/8 mile from the Sea
NOBODY EATS ANYTHING FROM THE SALTON SEA.

Miles and Miles of clean Corado River water Canals all over IV.
Catch clean Bass, Catfish. Fish the F/W Canals.

AVOID THE SALTON SEA !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=036Uy5FhtA8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_(Mexico_%E2%80%93_United_States)

See truck dump raw sewage at 7:40 in video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW-B1oAK1fM

Today, the river flow is not natural, mostly consisting of agricultural runoff, municipal discharge and industrial dumping. The river has been referred to as the most severely polluted river of its size within the United States. Several projects have begun to reduce and mitigate the levels of pollution in the river, including upgrading sewage treatment infrastructure and enclosing the river channel.

Flow
The New River channel begins at a volcanic lake, near Cerro Prieto.[1] Today this lake feeds the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Power Station. The river flows north 15 miles (25 km) through Baja California and another 66 miles (100 km) through California into the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California. Flow at the border is approximately 200 ft³/s (6 m³/s), and about three times this flow at the Salton Sea because of collected agricultural discharges.

The New River’s flow is composed of waste from agricultural and chemical runoff from the farm industry irrigation in the U.S. (18.4%) and Mexico (51.2%), sewage from Mexicali (29%), and manufacturing plants operating in Mexico (1.4%). By the time the New River crosses the U.S./Mexico border near Calexico, California, the channel contains a stew of about 100 contaminants: volatile organic compounds, heavy metals (including selenium, uranium, arsenic and mercury), and pesticides (including DDT) and PCBs. The waterway also holds the pathogens that cause tuberculosis, encephalitis, polio, cholera, hepatitis and typhoid; levels for many of these contaminants are in violation of United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Cal/EPA standards by several hundredfold.[3] Fecal coliform bacteria are at levels of 100,000 to 16 million colonies per milliliter at the border checkpoint (possibly more, as this is the measuring capacity threshold), far above the U.S.-Mexico treaty limit of 240 colonies.[4][5]

The combined effects of increasing, highly polluted inflow from the New River and agricultural runoff have resulted in elevated bacterial levels and large algal blooms in the Salton Sea. With the lack of an outlet, salinity has increased by approximately 1% per year. Due to high selenium levels, the public was strictly advised to limit fish consumption from the Salton Sea in 1986, after which any amount was likely a health risk. Increasing water temperature, salinity and bacterial levels led to massive fish die-offs (1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2006, 2008), and created the ideal breeding grounds for Botulismavian botulism, cholera and Newcastle disease, which also led to massive avian epizootics from 1992-2008. Currently, the Salton Sea has a salinity of 4.4% (4.4 parts per 100), making it saltier than ocean water (3.5% for Pacific), and many species of fish are no longer able to reproduce or survive in the Salton Sea. It is now believed the tilapia may be the only fish species able to persist there for a limited time. Without restoration actions, the sea will likely increase in toxicity, and remain an ecological trap for avian species.



DON"T RISK YOUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS HEALTH !

DR
Thats why if you guys want to eat the fish you catch try eastern and western sierras
or the local fish market.:LOL:

[DockRat]

Thats why if you guys want to eat the fish you catch try eastern and western sierras
or the local fish market.:LOL:

Fresh KH bonito is the bomb.
Alot of the fish in fish markets come from overseas frozen then thawed and layed on ice
for the 'fish market experience'.

Tilapia from Thailand, China ??? Safe ? Fresh :ROFL:
DR

[Fish Dog]

Once a great fishery but now is filled mostly by the New Rivet and the Alamo.
Cauion; It is Fed By The MOST POLLUTED RIVER IN THE USA.

You are incorrect. It is the most polluted river in MEXICO and happens to run into the United States. Just another "Gift" from south of the border...