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…
Joanne Thompson, Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, has announced a next step in strengthening the long-term conservation and rebuilding of wild Pacific salmon with the expansion of mass marking of all DFO (Fisheries and Ocean Canada) hatchery-origin Chinook salmon in southern British Columbia.
Salmon are becoming river ‘ghosts’ as brutal droughts and violent floods cause unprecedented losses on their treacherous journey to the Pacific Ocean, scientists say.
A major study 10.1111/gcb.70854 led by the University of Essex, NOAA Fisheries, University of California, Davis, and Cramer Fish Sciences found that young Californian Chinook salmon face a deadly double threat from extreme weather and the destruction of historical wetland habitats they rely on.
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 OtherA new system combines decades of fisheries data and statistics to visualize West Coast fisheries and how they have changed over time.
The Pacific Fishing Effort Mapping Project was led by researchers at NOAA, state wildlife departments, and the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. It consolidates location and catch data from fishing vessels with landings and economic figures into revealing maps and charts of major West Coast fisheries. It then shows how they may be affected by other ocean uses. For instance, the new system turns data on the catch value of groundfish into a landscape of colors depicting the West Coast, where the highest value catch areas stand out boldly.