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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Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times
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 …

Fishing News

Published  by Willie MacKenzie

The celeb-favourite sushi restaurant Nobu is back in the media spotlight this week, but with column inches devoted to bluefin tuna rather than A-list diners.
 
As Greenpeace revealed last year, Nobu, who pride themselves as market leaders and an exclusive venue, were serving up bluefin tuna as sushi.
Bluefin is an endangered species, like rhinos, tigers, or Read More …

WAX2003051203 - WASHINGTON, (UPI) — Giant bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. These are the only giant bluefins on display outside Japan. rlw/Monterey Bay Aquarium/Randy Wilder UPI. | Enlarge 

LONDON, (UPI) – Restaurant chain Nobu has added warnings to the menus of its London locations advising patrons not to order the bluefin tuna because it 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 …

Sightings of Earth’s largest animal have increased in past few years
By MARY PEMBERTON
The Associated Press

Blue whales are returning to Alaska waters in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.

The endangered whales, believed to be the largest animals ever to 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 …