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Responding to a years-long Supreme Court injunction over fish culverts, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking public input on a draft statewide strategy to prioritize the removal of small-scale barriers that prevent salmon and steelhead from swimming upstream.

Warm water in the upper Salmon River is leading biologists to trap the sockeye at Lower Granite Dam and haul them to the Eagle Hatchery near Boise, ID.

A pilot project proposed in Port Angeles, Washington is designed to test whether seawater can be used to soak up more carbon dioxide from the air.  “Project Macoma,” as the proposed pilot is named, is an effort by a company called Ebb Carbon. It is a first-of-its-kind pilot project that has the potential to remove carbon dioxide from marine waters. The project would use new electrochemical technology to speed up how fast the ocean can absorb CO2.  The technology will pull seawater from Port Angeles Harbor and treat it to make the water less acidic, then return the water back …

The Columbia River basin began the new year with below average snowpack and below average water supply forecasts

The ocean indicators that NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center researchers track off Newport, on the Central Oregon Coast, are decidedly mixed for juvenile salmon the coming year. El Niño is still developing at the equator and there are both positive and negative indicators in local waters for emerging salmon.