October 28, 2021, fisheries.noaa.gov NOAA Fisheries recovery goals include reintroduction to save the late-migrating fish. In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon of California’s Central Valley are the ultimate survivors. They are among the few salmon that return to spawning rivers in those difficult years […]
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Clem Tillion, Alaska’s original ‘fish czar,’ dies at 96
By Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage October 14th, 2021 Clem Tillion had a story for everyone, it seemed, and now everyone is telling Clem Tillion stories. A towering figure in the worlds of Alaska fisheries and politics — and in the intersection between the two — Tillion, 96, died Wednesday morning at his […]
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Judge tosses Trump rollback of clean water safeguards
By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press August 31, 2021 A federal judge has thrown out a Trump-era rule that ended federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways and left them vulnerable to pollution from nearby development. The Biden administration had already said it plans to repeal the […]
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Fighting Climate Change Might Have Just Gotten Easier
Scientific American, by L. Delta Merner, Brenda Ekwurzel on July 1, 2021 A court in The Netherlands has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its carbon emissions—and more. In late May, a Dutch court brought new hope to addressing climate change by ruling that Royal Dutch Shell must cut carbon emissions from both its operations and the oil […]
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Climate and Communities Core Team to hold online meeting July 8, 2021
The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (Pacific Council) Climate and Communities Core Team (CCCT) is holding an online meeting, which is open to the public. The online meeting will be held July 8, 2021, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time and continuing until 12:00 p.m. or until business is completed. Purpose of the meeting The CCCT […]
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Can Massive Cargo Ships Use Wind to Go Green?
NyTimes.com June 24th, 2021. By Aurora Almendrahl Cargo vessels belch almost as much carbon into the air each year as the entire continent of South America. Modern sails could have a surprising impact. In 2011, Gavin Allwright was living in a village outside Fukushima, Japan, with his wife and three children, when a powerful tsunami […]
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Farewell Thane Tienson, Salmon Champion
We lost a champion for salmon, for fishing people, and for the rivers and waters that produce fish for everyone. Thane Tienson, a founding board member of the National Fisheries Conservation Center, died in January. “Thane was a mentor, a brother, and a dear friend to me and to this organization. We were fortunate to […]
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Will New Zealand fishermen lead the way from traditional seabird conservation measures to Hookpods?
By Ed Melvin October 12th, 2020 Editor’s note (from source, sustainablefisheries-uw.org): This post is the first part of a two-part series aimed to bring you behind the scenes of an emerging fishery technology. The first post comes from the perspective of a scientist—it explains the Hookpod technology and its conservation benefits. The second post […]
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Researcher examines future effects of climate change on Sitka’s herring
KCAW.org | Katherine Rose | Jul 17, 2020 Predicting the future is hard, unless you’ve got a crystal ball. In the basement of the Sitka Sound Science Center, a researcher has designed an experiment to study the future of ocean acidification, and her “crystal ball” is herring. In Part 2 of KCAW’s two-part story on the […]
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Offshore wind: Seven things every fisheries professional needs to know
July 2nd, 2020, by Annie Hawkins, NationalFisherman.com By now, you have probably seen quite a bit about offshore wind energy development planned for multiple regions of the United States. Fishermen and related businesses understandably run the gamut from bewildered (“That would never happen where I fish”), to overwhelmed (“There’s too much else going on to […]
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