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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Ocean ‘Dead Zones’ Are Releasing One of The Worst Greenhouse Gases
ScienceAlert.com, July 6th 2021, by Brett Jameson In October 2019, I set sail with a team of scientists aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel John P. Tully in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Vancouver Island. Battling rough seas and lack of sleep, we spent the better part of a week working shoulder-to-shoulder […]
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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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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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Future Of Salmon In A Warming World – Part 2
By JOHANNA.EURICH • FEB 11, 2020 KYUK.org In the first of a two-part series, we explored the effects of warming river water on salmon. Now we take a look at the warming ocean, and what that means to the Yukon River king run. Managers have noticed that in recent years, smaller, younger king salmon are returning to salmon […]
continue readingEvaluating Catch Shares Project
The Evaluating Catch Shares Project is analyzing data on economic, social, and ecological effects of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program and the Northeast Multispecies Groundfish Sector Program. The five-year Project will provide a set of neutral, scientific indicators that can be used by fisheries managers, fishermen, and other interested parties to determine how […]
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