Mysterious Coho Deaths Explained
Washington State University professor Jenifer McIntyre and her team appear to have unraveled the mystery of the incredibly high pre-spawn Coho mortality rates we’ve been…
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Puyallup Tribe to Battle Electron Dam in Court
The Electron dam on the Puyallup River may be teetering on the brink. The dam has long impeded migration of salmon and steelhead, with substandard…
Railroads & Salmon, Some Progress
A huge concentration of stream crossings essential to baby chinook salmon are in Snohomish County. A bit of encouraging news on Puget Sound area habitat…
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…
Seattle Times Gets Well Deserved Thumping
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…
Bigger Fish! Go Nisqually Tribe, Go!
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…
Jesse Salomon | Our First-Ever Endorsement
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…
Coastal Crab | Recreationals Push To Expand Opportunity
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…
Snohomish River estuary restoration hits milestone
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…
Tidal Wave | Fighting Back for Recreational Fisheries
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…