B.C. government to audit fish processing plants that release bloody waste water
The B.C. government will audit 28 fish processing plants after tests confirmed the presence of a contagious fish virus in the bloody wastewater released into …
Tagfish in the news
“Jellies and salmon are not a good mix”
You can now add jellyfish to the list of things that mess with fish farms. In northern Norway, at the western side of the …
The way the world catches fish defies all economic logic
It’s often said that there are plenty more fish in the sea. For most of human history, that was true. From ancient Minoans to postwar …
Wild brook trout suffer from stocking
Recent research conducted by the U.S. Geologic Survey in New York shows that stocking brown trout into streams harboring wild brook trout is harmful to …
UW to catalog every fish species in world
The University of Washington’s Friday Harbor laboratory is considered one of the top marine labs in the world, and one of its biggest projects is …
What’s the Future of Fishways?
In 1714, a Rhode Island farmer named William Arnold excavated a channel around Pawtucket Falls to allow herring, salmon, and other migratory fish to circumnavigate …
Input Sought On Future Conservation Of Cutthroat Trout
After a set of meetings this week, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking the public to help with the future conservation of cutthroat …
Massachusetts mismanages the wild striped bass fishery
In this Cape Cod Times op-ed, Stripers Forever board member Dean Clark advocates for legislation under consideration in the Massachusetts that would establish new management …
Inside DFO’s Battle to Downplay a Deadly Farmed Salmon Disease
Part one in a Tyee series of how a BC Provincial lab played a key role in denying the existence of HSMI in BC fish …
Pesticides Imperil Endangered Salmon and Steelhead
Three commonly used pesticides pose a serious threat, even when used as recommended, to the survival of endangered salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia …