Beautiful Footage from Bristol Bay's Iliamna Lake
Iliamna Lake is the largest lake in the Bristol Bay watershed and has historically supported one of the largest populations of sockeye in the world. Since 1946 researchers from the University of...
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Canadian Petrostate: the Fight Continues for Canada's Soul and the Future of...
Today in Calgary the Joint Review Panel (JRP) convened by the Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) gave the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline the green light, contingent upon the company meeting a...
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Don't Let Hatchery Advocates Hijack WDFW's Gene Bank Process
Recently, we asked you to submit comments in support of WDFWs groundbreaking decision to designate three new wild steelhead gene banks in Southwest Washington. The decision to permanently discontinue...
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Article on KUOW's EarthFix Highlights Growing Awareness of Hatchery Impacts
With the holidays we missed posting this earlier, but we wanted to pass along a link to an interesting and important article on KUOW's EarthFix, highlighting the growing groundswell of opposition to...
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Action Needed: Two More Days to Submit Comment on Squamish Resort Development
The BC Ministry of Environment is accepting comments until January 14th on a proposed development that would threaten one of the most important tributaries of the Cheakamus River. Garibaldi at Squamish...
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Action Needed: ODFW Coastal Management Plan fails to protect wild fish
The draft Coastal salmonid Management Plan (CMP) is available for comment until February 10. The CMP was developed by ODFW staff with limited public input, and is primarily a hatchery and harvest plan...
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Canadian Govt Ignores Science, Cohen Commission in Opting to Expand Fish Farms
Last week, without much fanfare the Canadian Federal government announced it was going to allow the first major expansion of the salmon farming industry since a hard won moratorium on expansion of fish...
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Native Fish Society Action Alert: Comment on the Oregon Coastal Salmonid...
Thanks to our friends at the Native Fish Society for organizing another Action Alert. Now it has never been easier to submit comments to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on the Coastal...
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Judge Rules in Favor of Wild Sandy Steelhead and Salmon
"The most significant decision benefitting wild fish in Oregon for decades"Last week Judge Ancer Haggerty of the US District Court ruled that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's hatchery...
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New BiOp, More of the Same on the Columbia and Snake
Earlier this month the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released the latest version of the Biological Opinion (BiOp) on the recovery of threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead in the...
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Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha is Almost Gone
Dam removal on the Elwha River is almost complete after a controlled blast at Glines Canyon dam last month lowered the remaining dam to its last 35 feet above the river bed. Work began in September...
View ArticleOcean Acidification Already Impacting Salish Sea
10 million scallops are dead at a shellfish farm on the east side of Vancouver Island, falling victim to rising levels of acidity in the Georgia Strait. Ocean acidification, which is caused by rising...
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Increased Winter Time Flow Boosting Hanford Reach Wild Chinook
A new study has documented dramatic increases in the number of juvenile Chinook produced in the Hanford Reach following a series of agreements that have led to increased winter flows. Flows in the...
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Proposed BC Bill Would Allow Industrial Development in Provincial Parks
From the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society:On February 13th the Province introduced legislation that could weaken the Parks Act significantly, allowing for greater impacts in BC’s parks to occur....
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WDFW Takes Important First Steps In Designating Lower Columbia Wild Steelhead...
Despite some loud, opinionated opposition from some in the fishing lobby, WDFW made the right choice this week in announcing that they will move ahead with the designation of three wild steelhead...
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Kitimat Rejects Enbridge Pipeline
On Sunday, the town of Kitimat where the proposed Enbridge Pipeline would offload oily bitumen from the Alberta tar sands into tankers bound for Asian refineries, held a referendum on the proposed...
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Tides Turning for Hatchery Reform in Puget Sound
Yesterday, the non-profit Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced that they had reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by the WFC against...
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The Tongass 77
The Tongass National Forest is home to some of the largest tracts of intact temperature rain forest remaining on the planet. The region which supports an abundance of fish and wildlife is also under...
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OpEd: Time tp take out America's Worthless, Aging Dams
Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia and dedicated conservationist of wild salmonids and their ecosystems recently authored a very timely Op Ed for the New York Times. In it he lays out the facts...
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