A new study of fish stocks around the world found that while 63 percent of commercial species have been fished to perilously low levels, many species have rebounded when fishing pressure is scaled back. The study, which included University of Washington scientists, is the most comprehensive look at fish stocks yet.
By Sandi Doughton
Seattle Times science reporter

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The Pile River flows into Lake Iliamna at the base of the Alaskan Peninsula, headwaters of the Bristol Bay region.

A coalition of village corporations and others files suit to put an end to drilling and exploration for a copper and gold mine above Bristol Bay — a sanctuary for wild Read More …

Jihad Hashim
This documetnary explores the dire state of overfishing.

The apocalyptic documentary crisply explains the catastrophic consequences of overfishing.
By KENNETH TURAN, Film Critic 
“The End of the Line” is an apocalyptic documentary that is as beautiful as it is damning. The latest in a series of alarmist films that clue us in to an environmental crisis we’d Read More …

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHLAND, Wash. — Scientists are using acoustic tags to better understand how juvenile salmon and steelhead travel from John Day Dam on the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.
Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Portland District are tagging about 240 fish each day Read More …

GRANTS PASS (AP) - Two top members of President Obama’s environmental team are in the Northwest this week, listening but pointedly not speaking about the tense conflict between salmon and hydroelectric dams in the Columbia Basin.
NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and White House Council on Environmental Quality chairwoman Nancy Sutley attended closed-doors sessions in Portland on Read More …

 
A new report examining the status of the nation’s fisheries shows that four fish stocks were rebuilt to sustainable levels in 2008 — the most since 2001, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service.
The NOAA report, which the agency must file annually with Congress, identifies the rebuilt stocks as Atlantic bluefish, Gulf Read More …

Largest Number of Stocks Rebuilt Since 2001
NOAA’s Fisheries Service reported to Congress today that four stocks — Atlantic bluefish, Gulf of Mexico king mackerel and two stocks of monkfish in the Atlantic — have been rebuilt to allow for continued sustainable fishing. This is the largest number of stocks to be declared rebuilt in a single Read More …

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The debate over how hatchery-produced salmon and steelhead can be used to bolster runs of wild fish has long been the source of controversy — and a new study on the Trinity River has reawakened that discussion.
There is a long list of troubles biologists assign to mixing hatchery fish with wild fish. They Read More …

Bipartisan legislation would protect our healthiest wild salmon ecosystems.
April 22, 2009, Washington, D.C –U.S. Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA 1st) and Mike Simpson (D-ID 2nd) introduced legislation to protect and restore the healthiest remaining wild Pacific salmon ecosystems in North America–”Salmon Strongholds.” Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), with co-sponsorship from the entire West Coast Senate delegation, introduced Read More …