While NOAA Fisheries blamed climate change for the dramatic decline of the crabs, crabbers said they’ve also been victimized by inaccurate data and poor management decisions. Crabbers and ...
The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world.
Few things define Alaskans more than our love of salmon. Not surprisingly, salmon allocation decisions and fluctuations in resource abundance often spur bitter political battles between user groups. A ...
The big role that tiny Atlantic menhaden play in helping to sustain populations of larger, more recreationally desireable fish will now be a part of fishery management decisions. The Atlantic States ...
Lisa Wilson is a member of the Lummi Indian Business Council and vice chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. Courtesy photo The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission needs to adopt an ...
Dec. 6—A small, spiny fish no one wants to catch has started to appear in trawl nets off the Oregon Coast. Shortbelly rockfish are common off California but were rare in Oregon until recently. Boosted ...
Yanking a salmon out of the Columbia River, fishermen look for a tiny indicator of whether the catch is a keeper. Yanking a salmon out of the Columbia River, fishermen look for a tiny indicator of ...
Should party boats have different regulations for fluke than, say, surf fishermen? The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council are floating an idea ...
Recently, an argument over whether hatcheries are causing more harm than good has been heating up. The debate is nothing new. But an Alaska Department of Fish and Game study is about to take a step ...
HEATHER WALDMAN EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED. WELL, THIS IS THE TIME OF THE YEAR WHEN NATIVE CHINOOK SALMON RETURN FROM THE OCEAN TO THEIR NATIVE RIVERS IN ORDER TO BEGIN SPAWNING SEASON AND THE SALMON ...
Rick Zollman stands at the edge of a rectangular, concrete pool, peering into the water below. Tens of thousands of juvenile chinook salmon rush toward him, their speckled backs and silver bellies ...