Columbia River Treaty | US ready to start
The US State Department has formally completed the process to initiate discussions to modernize the Columbia River Treaty. Now 50+ years old, the treaty has…
Articles by Tidal Exchange Staff
Puget Sound Coho | Recreationals Still Shut Out
Last year at this time recreational Puget Sound Coho fisheries were still going strong. The creel count from this date last year shows 350+ anglers…
Puyallup River Opens for Coho, Marine Fisheries still CLOSED?
First the good news — the return of coho to the Voights Creek Hatchery has met egg-take goals, and the river has opened for recreational…
Yakima Nation | 14K Sockeye Return to Cle Elum
The Yakima Nation’s efforts to repopulate the Sockeye Run to Lake Cle Elum has achieved record numbers of spawners. Returning fish are being trucked around the…
Restoration | Wallacut River Estuary
Another good story on the restoration of a small chunk of a small Columbia River tributary. The Columbia Land Trust, mitigation money from BPA, and…
$10M Study on Fraser River Salmon Marine Survival
The Tri-City News has kicked off a 7-part series covering research efforts in and around the marine survival of Fraser River/BC salmon. The first article…
Blob and Toxic Algae Linked
Toxicity, it’s what’s for dinner… The Blob has left it’s mark and it’s toxic algae, producing Domoic Acid. The money quotes from the report are:…
Sky, Snohomish, Wallace opening for Coho
The saying is “better late than never”, but in this case we’re still pretty disappointed. Weeks ago we’d heard about tons of fish in the river,…
Tribes Overfishing? Questions Arise
The unprecedented season that has been 2016 continues to reveal the limits of the current co-management of fisheries between the Tribes and the state. The…
Opinion | Grays Harbor Oil Terminal
Mines and fossil fuel ports are the cockroaches of ecological issues. There’s enough money behind them that they are rarely defeated for good, instead they…