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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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 […]
continue readingJapan’s fish catch sinks for 4th straight year to all-time low
By TETSUSHI YAMAMURA, April 27th, 2018, The Asahi Shinbun A plunging fish catch in 2017 for the fourth consecutive year has the agriculture ministry considering drastic revisions to its fisheries resources control efforts as well as regulatory reform to encourage expansion of the commercial fish farming industry. Japan’s fish hauls totaled a record low of […]
continue readingMining power: EPA’s Pruitt aims to short-circuit Clean Water Act
By Jessica Hathaway June 28, 2018, NationalFisherman.com Three days before the deadline for public comments on the proposed Pebble Mine project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt directed his staff to create a rule limiting the agency’s ability to regulate projects under Clean Water Act guidelines. These are the exact guidelines that commercial fishermen and […]
continue readingClimate Change May Be Creating A Seafood Trade War, Too
June 15th, 2018, Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com One of the grand challenges that I find as a climate scientist is conveying to the public the “here and now” of climate change. For many people, it is still some “thing” that seems far off in time or distance from their daily lives of bills, illness, kids, and their […]
continue readingSimple rules can help fishery managers cope with ecological complexity
To successfully manage fisheries, factors in the environment that affect fish — like food sources, predators and habitat — should be considered as part of a holistic management plan. That approach is gaining traction in fisheries management, but there has been no broad-scale evaluation of whether considering these ecosystem factors makes any economic sense for […]
continue readingThe Alaska Fisheries Miracle
A video made by Brad Matsen (one of our board members) and Mark Brinster to illustrate the value of documenting the past history of successful fisheries management. It includes interviews with fishermen and scientists, explaining the miracle of the Alaskan/North Pacific sustainable fisheries. A project of the the National Fisheries Conservation Center to archive stories […]
continue readingThe Law That’s Saving American Fisheries
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act: It’s a Keeper This in-depth and comprehensive look at our nation’s most important fisheries management law was the result of the combined work of several of our board members, at the request of some of the most prestigious national conservation funders. As the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act […]
continue readingTalking Fish: “Known is a drop. Unknown is an ocean.”
September 8th, 2014 By Peter Shelley, TalkingFish.org That still-true ancient line, penned by Tamil poet Avvaiyar some two thousand years ago, reminds us all that while it is worth paying attention to what we see, it is often critical to be seduced by our convictions about what it means. And so it is that recent reports from […]
continue readingEat up! These bottom fish make a dramatic recovery on West Coast
Septmeber 2nd, 2014 By Craig Welch, The Seattle Times Marine scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium said Tuesday that government regulators and fishermen had made such strides in how they manage and catch 21 species of rockfish, flounder, lingcod and sole that it listed all among the “good” or “best” seafood choices in its popular […]
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