A plastic pipe fence the length of a football field stretches across the Nisqually River near Joint Base Lewis-McChord property, signalling a new era in fisheries management for the Nisqually Tribe. The portable dam, which includes traps and augers to lift the fish into holding tanks, is designed to capture every fall chinook salmon that has made it through a gauntlet of fisheries that stretches from Alaska to the river. 

Ocean delicacy and ecological lynchpin, now the oyster’s genome has been mapped for all to explore. Learn why the oyster genome can help us cope with climate change, and why scientists like SAFS‘ Steven Roberts are psyched to get to work on it.   

NOAA’s newly released report on the state of fisheries in the US shows some progress in the recovery of fish stocks. SAFS‘ Ray Hilborn is quoted; read more here. 

Not all the smoke in the air around Puget Sound has been unintentional. For the third year in a row, researchers and land managers with various organizations from around the state conducted controlled burns last week of grasslands at Ebey’s Bluff and the Pacific Rim Institute of Environmental Stewardship. SEFS‘ Eric Delvin is quoted; read more in this story by the Whidbey News-Times. 

Reports of freshwater jellyfish seem to be on the rise in the rivers and lakes of Canada, sparking questions about how they got there. FHL‘s Claudia Mills is mentioned; read more in this CBC News article.