Trudeau issues mandate to close BC netpen salmon farms by 2025
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not backing down on his vow to ban netpen farming in British Columbia. Trudeau directed the minister of fisheries …
Tagfish politics
BC Coastal Fish Farms To Close By 2025?
The aquaculture industry must be shitting in their collective pants now that Justin Trudeau has been re-elected as Canada’s Prime Minister. Trudeau’s liberal party recently …
Conservative “Leaders” Applaud Rolling Back Preemptive Veto Of The Pebble Mine
The Conservative Action Project has just released a Memo for the Movement signed by 99 conservative leaders applauding the rolling back of the preemptive veto …
Murkowski says the EPA makes a convincing case
Slight progress from Lisa Murkowski, still not enough. The Environmental Protection Agency issued harsh assessments of the proposed Pebble Mine last week, and they’ve made …
Mining Proposal For Skagit River Headwaters Sparks Outcry
Nine members of Washington state’s congressional delegation, all Democrats, called Wednesday for the U.S. Department of State to intervene in a simmering dispute with Canada over a …
Bi-partisan bill would end Coumbia River gillnetting
A bipartisan group of twenty-four Washington senators has introduced a bill Friday requires ending the practice of using non-tribal gill nets to harvest salmon in …
Hunters and anglers flex their political muscles
Republicans were once instrumental in passing laws like the 1964 Wilderness Act and the 1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. In recent decades, however, the …
What does the Dunleavy administration mean for the Pebble Mine?
Officially, Governor Mike Dunleavy is not taking a position on the mine. But the new governor is already making moves that have encouraged the mine’s …
Modern Fish Act: We’ve got good news and bad news
The bad news? Congress passed the so-called Modern Fish Act. The good news? It’s nothing more than a watered down red snapper bill. Thanks to …
Oregon wilderness, wildfire bills blocked, vote delayed until January
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and other Western senators negotiated a bipartisan package of 120 public lands bills in hopes of attaching it to a “must-pass” …