Pack Up Your Nets!!
An encouraging development emerged from Olympia this week, with 24 Washington State senators sponsoring a bill to buy out and retire all non-tribal gillnetting permits…
An encouraging development emerged from Olympia this week, with 24 Washington State senators sponsoring a bill to buy out and retire all non-tribal gillnetting permits…
The Seattle Times got a well deserved thumping for a remarkably naive story they recently ran suggesting that Salmon fisheries be suspended in an attempt…
Back in February we wrote a story urging fisheries managers to try sorting hatchery fish for size — in an effort to offset the harvest/predation…
Republicans and Democrats can both feel great about picking Jesse Salomon for State Senate in the 32nd District. Voters in this district find themselves choosing…
The numbers are staggering: 300-1. That’s right, three hundred to one! For every single crab caught by recreational fishers in Washington coastal waters, the commercial…
We haven’t posted a lot of external news of late, but this important step on the restoration of teh Snohomish estuary seemed too important not…
There’s an adage in Washington State fishery politics that the recreational fishermen are too disorganized and too idle to get much accomplished in Olympia. There…
For decades managers have been scaling back fisheries without successfully recovering local salmon runs. Our simulation will show you why this hasn’t worked, and let…
Taking a moment to look away from the chaotic Puget Sound Salmon Management negotiations themselves, we wanted to look for separate, constructive, management changes that…
While it’s nowhere near a final ruling, it’s a surprising development. It’s easy to read this decision by the EPA as both a positive step…