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 …

“We got 30 minutes!” “Throw the ball!” Bloom yelled, and Ben Dinsdale, one of her
crewmen, tossed an orange buoy over the stern. She put it in gear
and the net spooled out behind us. The boat and net drift together
with the tide and current, picking up salmon as they go.
“There’s a hit! ”Bloom shouted, pointing at 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 …

By TIM HULL 

     LOS ANGELES (CN) - American cooking custom that relies on packaged food has created a thriving black market for substituted seafood where consumers cannot tell a fillet of flounder from a slice of grouper or a cut of catfish. The federal prosecutor who prosecuted members of a smuggling ring that imported 10 million pounds of 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 …

In support of the California Department of Fish and Game and its effort to keep hunters and anglers informed, Outposts, on Thursday afternoon or Friday, lists a portion of Carrie Wilson’s weekly Q&A column and provides a link so viewers can read its entire contents. Here’s this week’s lead topic:

Question: With the collapse of the salmon fishery in 2008, Read More …

The crew of the F/V Northwestern and stars of The Deadliest Catch, America’s top-rated cable television show, are speaking out about a massive hard-rock mine that developers want to build in the heart of Alaska’s wild salmon country. The proposed mine, called Pebble, straddles the headwaters of the two of the world’s most productive salmon rivers. If developed, Pebble could be North Read More …

 
Captain Sig Hansen, well known for his featured status on the cable show Deadliest Catch has used his political capital, as it were, to speak out against Alaska’s Deadliest Match; fish and the proposed Pebble Mine Project.

It’s unusual for a “Deadliest Catch” crew member to take a hard stance in a big Alaska resource battle like 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 …

by Thomas Elliott
ATLANTIC
Wild salmon population levels are of dire concern in the Atlantic Ocean.  This species is near extinction primarily due to over fishing. The wild Atlantic salmon fishery is commercially dead.
Beginning around 1990 the rates of wild Atlantic salmon mortality at sea more than doubled, and by 2000 the numbers had dropped to critically Read More …