Salmon populations are struggling, bringing economic woes for California's fishing fleet
On the docks at Pillar Point Harbor, fishing crews have been arriving with loads of freshly caught Dungeness crab.
On the docks at Pillar Point Harbor, fishing crews have been arriving with loads of freshly caught Dungeness crab.
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2024
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Orca scientist Rob Williams always thought that conservation was a knowledge problem, that once science showed why a species was declining, people would fix it.
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2024
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After decades of waiting for two dams to come down on the Elwha River on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, and another decade of monitoring salmon populations, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (LEKT) was finally able to ...
Ecology
Mar 25, 2024
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Six decades of ecological monitoring on a stream close to King Charles' Deeside home is providing the science needed for the fight to preserve one of Scotland's keystone species.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2024
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A Sacramento judge upheld a decision by California's water regulator to cut back agricultural and municipal water use from the San Joaquin River. The decision could lend support for future regulations in the rest of the Sacramento-San ...
Ecology
Mar 22, 2024
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Restored salmon habitat should resemble financial portfolios, offering fish diverse options for feeding and survival so that they can weather various conditions as the climate changes, a new study shows.
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2024
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The coho salmon has already conquered the Ballard Locks fish ladder, swum 17 miles through urban Seattle waterways and powered through a tunnel under nine lanes of Interstate 405.
Ecology
Mar 11, 2024
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The frequency and scale of mass mortality events—events where large numbers of organisms die in short periods of time—among farmed salmon have increased since 2012, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2024
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Not since 2015 has Washington's snowpack fallen so far below normal. Some regions of the state are preparing for another drought this summer. Others are still enmeshed in the drought that began last summer.
Environment
Mar 7, 2024
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Norway's fish farms are feeding their salmon an increasingly vegetarian diet in order to make their businesses more sustainable, but for these carnivorous pink-fleshed fish, all is not rosy.
Agriculture
Feb 22, 2024
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