Above Photo: New replacement culvert at Big Cedar Creek. Credit: Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission To help Snake River basin salmon and steelhead successfully migrate to and from the ocean, NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation is funding multiple salmon habitat restoration projects in the Snake River basin. In addition, the Idaho Office of…
Above photo: SpeciesNet’s AI prediction can be seen on an image of a lynx. Credit: Mammal Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab Artificial intelligence can dramatically speed up the painstaking work of tracking wildlife with remote cameras, cutting analysis time from months or even a year to just days while producing nearly the same scientific conclusions…
NOAA Fisheries has announced up to $99 million in funding through the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund for conservation and recovery projects that support Pacific salmon. The funding, says a press release, “supports Administration priorities by improving habitat and other actions to increase the production of salmon and steelhead that contribute to U.S. fisheries. Stronger…
Above: An artistic rendering of the planned Goldendale Energy Storage project. Located on privately owned land zoned for energy, the project can store electricity for 12 hours and generate 1,200 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 500,000 homes in the Pacific Northwest. Courtesy: Rye Development The Washington Department of Ecology is seeking public input…
For the litigation over river operations for Columbia/Snake River salmon and steelhead, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has set a briefing schedule for the federal government’s appeal of rulings by a lower court in Portland. But the Court has yet to say whether it will stay the lower court’s rulings as the legal wrangling…
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Pacific Fishing Effort Mapping Project: A Geographic Grid Covering Waters Off West Coast Consolidates Location, Decades Of Catch Data, Fisheries Revenue
/in 04. SCIENCE, OtherAbove: Geographic distribution of the revenue for trawl-caught groundfish in 2024 and 2016–2024 along a portion of the U.S. West Coast. This sample image from the Pacific Fishing Effort Mapping tool illustrates how data is visualized. Credit: NOAA Fisheries A new system combines decades of fisheries data and statistics to visualize West Coast fisheries and…