Baseball Game Delayed Due to Falling Fish
A moment to be marked in baseball history. An Osprey with a fish in his claws was threatened by a pursuing bald eagle, causing the …
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DFO buried scientists’ concerns about endangered steelhead
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) suppressed elements of a scientific assessment that could have led to stronger protections for a steelhead population on the brink …
HUNGER: The decline of salmon adds to the struggle of Puget Sound’s orcas
Twin monarchs of the Pacific Northwest, chinook salmon, and southern resident orcas, are struggling for survival after a century of habitat losses. From the Pacific …
Organizations Object to Certification of ‘Most Important Fish in the Sea’
The MSC is the same outfit that certified some wild Olympic Peninsula steelhead as sustainable. East Coast conservation groups and recreational fishing organizations recently objected to …
Hatchery Misfits
Scientists studying pink salmon in Alaska’s Prince William Sound have come to a startling conclusion: Female hatchery fish gone feral reproduce at only about half …
On The Water’s Striper Cup Eliminates Weigh-Ins
On The Water’s Striper Cup is a season-long striped bass tournament that saw over 4,000 entries in 2018. While the organizers have worked hard the …
Resurrecting the Greenback, Take Two
After a case of mistaken identity, scientists double down on their efforts to save greenback cutthroat trout, a critically threatened native subspecies that is also …
Alberta group tries to force federal justice minister to protect cutthroat trout
The Canadian government is facing more legal problems over an alleged and ongoing failure to enforce its own environmental laws — challenged this time by a …
The secret lives of salmon: Scientists to probe ailing Pacific stocks
Twenty-one scientists from Russia, Canada, the United States, Japan and South Korea have taken residence on the Russian research ship MV Professor Kaganovsky for an …
Experts say Idaho’s salmon, steelhead could be gone in a generation
For the third year in a row, biologists predict that Idaho’s salmon and steelhead runs will be very low in 2019, and many tributaries might …