“As a scientist and a grandmother, I want to make sure we don’t give up on wild salmon”
This year, 2019, is the worst salmon return in the history of this country and the silence is terrifying. It feels like everyone is giving …
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Chasing A Memory
In California, orcas and salmon have become so scarce people have forgotten what once was. The last stand in the Lower 48 for salmon and …
How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
“The Columbia River was once the most productive wild Chinook habitat in the world,” said Russ Thurow, a fisheries research scientist with the Forest Service’s …
Official: Development of salmon-saving policies takes time
What the hell have you been doing for the last 30 years?! Idaho officials say it will take time for the governor’s Salmon Working Group …
Plan allows for killing 1,100 sea lions
More than 1,100 sea lions could be killed annually along a stretch of the Columbia River on the Oregon-Washington border to boost faltering populations of …
Report shows Trump’s water plan would hurt California salmon. The government hid it
The administration’s assault on the environment continues for the benefit of powerful special interests. Federal officials suppressed a lengthy environmental document that details how one …
B.C. wild salmon plan panned by conservation groups
The B.C. government’s new wild salmon strategy is a missed opportunity, says the executive director of Skeena Wild Conservation Trust, because it does not contain …
But what about the Orcas?
Washington regulators want water at dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers to meet state standards. They say that would make it safer for imperiled …
The Fish Trap Moves Forward
Conventional fishing practices in mixed-stock commercial salmon fisheries of the U.S Pacific Northwest often result in bycatch mortality, impeding wild salmon recovery, altering ecosystem dynamics, …
A Blinding Glimpse Of The Obvious
A new Washington state report says that despite two decades of recovery efforts, some salmon runs still declining. The report, released Wednesday by Gov. Jay …