The Best Weekly Media Round-up of Stories about Salmon and their Habitats
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How are you doing out there? Are you at home trying to keep your kids occupied? Are you managing to get a little exercise while physically distancing? What's working for you? No really, I NEED to know. All suggestions welcome.
Jim Hanson was stacking wood with his 24-year-old son early Friday evening by the northern part of the fjord of Indian Arm when he heard what he thought was "the puff of a whale."
An international scientific expedition is trawling far offshore for Pacific salmon even though some researchers chose to leave the ship as worries escalated about the coronavirus.
A swirling mass of fish swims past, as if a single organism was moving in unison. Who gets to be in the middle? How do they not bump into each other? And why are they schooling in the first place?
Ending global environmental crises such as climate change and slowing the growing number of extinctions of plant and animal species will require radical solutions that could take centuries to implement.
Canada’s new minister of Fisheries and Oceans has the key to swiftly unlock Canada’s potential for abundant fish populations and ensure future generations inherit healthy oceans full of life.
The final entry in “Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor” special report explores how the Pacific Northwest is adapting to climate change, whether it's new approaches to working the land, changing critical infrastructure or rethinking our mindset.
Family and friends turn to science communicators like me to make sense of a pandemic. Here’s what I learned about handling good and bad info in a crisis.
Recently a CalTrout Southern California project was featured in the Article “Boom: Removing 81 Dams Is Transforming This California Watershed” by The Revelator.
In the early weeks of a global catastrophe like Covid-19, it’s best to accept that the world has changed and reimagine yourself and your work within it.
Just like clockwork, ospreys (Pandion haliaetus), a species listed as threatened in New Jersey under the Endangered and Nongame Species Conservation Act of 1973, return every spring from overwintering sites in the tropics to watery areas up north to begin another busy breeding season.
The recent research article on biofilm clearly identifies the potential for environmental hazards for habitat destruction for the declining salmon runs in the Fraser River and migratory birds' biofilm and salmon fingerlings' food supply by any port expansion.
A federally appointed panel has found the development of a new shipping container terminal south of Vancouver would result in "significant adverse" effects on endangered southern resident killer whales.
To protect their communities from the spread of COVID-19 and to preserve precious medical resources, some British Columbia communities are asking visitors to stay home.
Canada has moved to support its fisheries and aquaculture sectors with an aid package that will provide both direct and indirect support to the industry.
The Yurok Tribe, PCFFA, and IFR, represented by Earthjustice, have successfully obtained a new three-year plan for operating the Klamath Irrigation Project to increase springtime flows in the Klamath River.
As the world continues to deal with the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, a webinar was held last week with the fishing public interested in what was happening with Lake Ontario Chinook salmon stocking in 2020.
Oregon fishery managers closed recreational salmon and steelhead fisheries on the Columbia River on Thursday night to help limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Alaska issued a mandate late on Monday, 24 March, qualifying the state’s commercial fishing industry as “critical infrastructure” amid the COVID-19 crisis.
The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees who built dream homes along its banks.
On March 20, North Olympic Land Trust and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe reached a milestone in local land conservation with the purchase of 104 acres of farmland and habitat along the Dungeness River known as River’s Edge.
Coho salmon are getting a boost from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife strategic plan to prioritize salmon restoration and habitat improvement projects in coastal watersheds from Santa Cruz to Mendocino counties.
The Natural Resources Defense Council works to safeguard the earth - its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
Some environmental groups are complaining about the teleconference format for gathering public comments on a federal government proposal to save salmon runs on the Columbia River system.
Following the announcement Thursday, by WDFW that it will close all recreational fisheries in the state of Washington, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that it will also close recreational salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River effective Thursday, March 26.
The population of Taiwan's critically endangered Formosan landlocked salmon has surpassed 10,000 for the first time on record, according to survey results released Wednesday by Shei-Pa National Park.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has likely experienced its most widespread bleaching event on record, according to a U.S. government scientist who monitors the world's coral reefs.
Connect with ocean experts and explore topics from corals to coastal science with NOAAs' podcast. Recent topics include nurdles, meteotsunamis and the origins of nautical phrases!
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