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 …

Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com

In a paper that shows just how strange our modern world has become, Robert P. Friedland, neurologist from the University of Louisville, warns that farmed fish could be at risk of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or mad cow disease.

Currently, farmed fish are fed cow byproducts—a food source they would never find natural environment (unless society 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 …

 
 
Bycatch
Fish and Animals Caught and Wasted
 
Worldwide, fisheries throw away 25% of their catch
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, one in four animals caught in fishing gear dies as bycatch—unwanted or unintentional catch. Tons of fish are tossed out, dead or dying, because they’re not the kind the fishermen wanted to catch. The discarded animals Read More …

ScienceDaily — Ocean acidification, a direct result of increased CO2 emission, is set to change the Earth’s marine ecosystems forever and may have a direct impact on our economy, resulting in substantial revenue declines and job losses.
Intensive fossil-fuel burning and deforestation over the last two centuries have increased atmospheric CO2 levels by almost 40%, which has in turn 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 …

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 …