Monday, February 5, 2024

Continued threats for a native California species

Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon remain endangered, a NOAA Fisheries review finds.

Alaska Native tribes pressure Canada for rights in Unuk River mining project

NOAA announces confirmed large whale entanglement numbers in 2022

Applications now open for Lorraine Loomis Memorial Scholarship

Marine heatwaves trigger shift in hatch dates and early growth of Pacific cod

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Fishing for federal help

Alaska legislators are asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assist the state’s struggling seafood industry.

An ‘average’ sockeye run forecast for Upper Cook Inlet

Unalaska pushes back against proposed bycatch restrictions on pollock fishery

Dutch Harbor state-waters cod fishery opens with largest harvest level to date

San Francisco commercial fisherman files suit alleging marine fuel price fixing

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Peter Pan fire

The blaze broke out at a small company facility in Sand
Point, Alaska.

Coalition letter calls on feds to fully fund California’s disaster request for 2023 salmon closure

Alaska bills make electronic monitoring of state-regulated fisheries a possibility

BC Salmon Farmers applauds removal of ‘sensationalist’ ads from some
radio stations

U.S Coast Guard cutter Steadfast decommissioned in Astoria

U.S. Coast Guard to discontinue seasonal sound signals at Umpqua River and Yaquina Bay

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Climate change and stock estimates

Scientists have developed a new method to address mismatches in survey timing and when fish gather to spawn.

Razor clams, geoducks battle to be Washington’s top clam

In a step toward building wind farms off California, $1 billion bond proposed for port expansion

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak

Brent Paine, longtime executive director of United Catcher Boats, plans to retire

“Silent extinction” feared for steelhead trout across B.C.

Friday, February 9, 2024

A trawling challenge

Three tribal governments and an environmental organization serve notice to federal agencies of a coming lawsuit to block a fishing experiment along the Northern Bering Sea seafloor.

Thousands of Chinook wasted as bycatch in B.C. trawl fishery, new report finds

NOAA takes ‘hard look’ at growing salmon to feed orcas

Octopus farming in Washington state may soon be banned

Charleston Crab Feed offers fresh local seafood

Editorial: The Boldt decision’s enduring legacy, 50 years on