What To Do with Fish When the River Runs Dry
Is a salvaged fish truly saved? And, in response to a warming climate that is drying out Pacific Northwest rivers, a new and more extreme …
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Study Finds Chinook Salmon Are Returning To Rivers Younger Than Before
Two retired WDFW employees have released a new paper calling for non-tribal trolling fisheries to be shut down and other fisheries reduced to help Chinook …
Incoming
Footage captured via dash-cam on a Charlotte bridge, shows an osprey rising from the water with a fish in its talons, and releasing its catch …
Is Microfishing a Celebration of Biodiversity or a Sign of Collapse?
Around the world, fishers are embracing tiny quarry. The objective of microfishing is laughably simple: to catch very small fish. This is, of course, a …
Steelhead in Vermont?
I’m so confused. Steelhead rainbow trout are starting to migrate upstream this time of year in Vermont on their way to spawning grounds, creating one …
Restoring the hope that ‘a fish will rise’
In the frigid, rough-and-tumble waters of Whitewater Creek, which squeezes through soaring stone walls, a rare trout thrives again after a 100-year brush with extinction. …
Miscounted Fish May Be Skewing Population Sizes
When scientists affix tracking tags to fish and release them into the ocean, they expect that some will live, some will die, and some will …
B.C. female salmon dying 2x the rate of males
Decades of research have led UBC professor, Dr. Scott Hinch, to uncover female salmon in B.C. are dying at unprecedented rates. For every male sockeye …
Blue herons identified as a significant predator of B.C.’s juvenile salmon
Pinnipeds, cormorants, Caspian terns, now blue herons. It appears Pacific great blue herons have a much larger appetite for juvenile salmon than previously understood, potentially …
Feds May Look at Spring-Run Chinook Salmon as Genetically Distinct
Wildlife conservationists have been long making the case that spring-run Chinook salmon are a genetically distinct species from the ones that make their runs in …