Salmon Country II – The Salmon of Bristol Bay, AK
The salmon runs of Bristol Bay, Alaska are by the numbers jaw-dropping with millions of fish flooding these wild rivers each summer. There is something …
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Dunleavy administration will appeal decision to reject Pebble mine permit
Somebody call Don Jr! Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy just announced that the Alaska Department of Law will file an administrative appeal with the United States …
Good News: Trump’s ANWR Oil-Lease Sale Was a Failure
On Wednesday, while a mob of domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol, something else undemocratic was going on: the Trump administration was holding the first-ever …
2020 State of the Bay Report
This year, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) assessment of the State of the Bay remained at a D+, but declined by one point from 2018. …
Snake River Sampling
For anglers in Wyoming, or for those visiting, a fishing trip on the Snake River makes for a special experience—the combination of nice scenery and …
Washington agency OKs Cooke’s steelhead plans…
The Washington Department of Ecology has revised four water quality permits to allow steelhead trout to be raised in Cooke Aquaculture’s marine net pens, instead …
Bigger cormorant kill to protect salmon approved by feds
A new federal rule gives states and tribes greater flexibility to kill double-crested cormorants to help migrating salmon. Under the new rule, up to 121,504 …
Welcome to Jurassic Park
Blue Valley Ranch is seeking Colorado environmental regulators’ permission to inject the Blue River with phosphorus, a chemical regulated as a pollutant, on an 8-mile …
Future of Kennebec fish runs and salmon’s survival at stake in federal licensing battle
While Maine and the world have been focused on the pandemic, a fight over the future of Maine’s second-largest river system is raging inside the …
Trump vetoes drift-net fishing bill in California
Large mesh drift nets are illegal in the territorial waters of the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and the coasts of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii. …