A new study published in Science suggests that the world’s unassessed fisheries — those with relatively little data describing their status — are declining rapidly, but that this trend could be reversed. SAFS‘ Ray Hilborn is a co-author; read more here!
Read more »Nisqually tribe manually separate wild & hatchery salmon as they come upriver
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.
Read more »The mysterious goo of oysters, now mapped - KPLU
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.
Read more »Can we win the battle against overfishing? - WaPo
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.
Read more »Researchers test restoration techniques in Whidbey grasslands
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.
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