The battle to bring a salmon run home
Sometime in early November 2018, 85,000 cubic meters of rock — the equivalent of 750 double-decker buses — sheared off a 125-meter-high cliff and tumbled …
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In the wake of floods, what’s next for salmon?
Recently released salmon eggs likely bore the brunt of our record-breaking rains here in the Pacific Northwest. But it might not all be doom and …
Southeast Alaska commercial salmon harvest 4 times higher than last year
While salmon runs struggle throughout a large portion of their range, not the case in the great state of Alaska. Science is beginning to show …
Huffman, Porter, Strickland Call for Examination of Toxic Chemical Impacts on Endangered Salmon
Representatives Jared Huffman (CA-02), Chair of the Natural Resources Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Subcommittee, Katie Porter (CA-45), Chair of the Natural Resources Oversight and Investigations …
CA and Feds Still Plan to Drain Reservoirs & Kill Salmon
Updated water supply allocations announced last week would still drain upstream reservoirs in order to deliver 4.5 million acre-feet of water to the contractors of …
New website imagines the Snake River without dams
Save Our Wild Salmon has released a detailed multimedia website envisioning what the removal of four dams could mean for the region. “We’re hoping …
The Proverbial Dam Is Breaking | Simpson on Salmon Recovery
A robust plan to breach the 4 lower Snake River dams from an unlikely source. It would be a tragedy if future generations looked back …
The Biggest Salmon Habitat Issue You’ve Never Heard Of
Along British Columbia’s Fraser River, concrete obstructions block 1,500 kilometers of fish habitat and ‘meat grinder’ pump stations kill fish. Critics say it’s time for …
What the History of Salmon Can Tell Us About the Future of the Planet
Mark Kurlansky has been telling the story of how humans eat, one food at a time over the last 20 years. He has published popular …
ROCK-PAPER-FISH
Pebble is not the only proposed mine that is threatening Alaska’s salmon and its native people. Every year all five species of salmon return to …