Trump’s
NOAA firings raise doubts for PNW fisheries
These scientists inform and set salmon fisheries quotas and
identify priority salmon habitat recovery work. They were hired to
forecast climate impacts, like low-oxygen conditions and marine
heat, on fisheries and provide data to reduce the risk of whale
entanglements, among other things.
Protecting
B.C. old-growth forests could yield $10.9B in benefits, report
finds
That number could quadruple to $43.1 billion over the next century
if 100% of old growth trees were protected in the Okanagan and
Prince George timber supply areas.
Inside
the fight to save California’s dying sea lions from toxic
algae: ‘We’re like 911 operators’
An animal’s chance of survival after domoic acid poisoning is
50-50, and this year an outbreak has sickened hundreds.
Trump
proposed cutting the Northwest’s national forests. So what
happens next?
President Donald Trump’s executive order last month laid the
groundwork for wholesale changes in national forest management.
Here at home, that means timber managers are under a directive to
help contribute to a 25% increase in logging volume over the next
several years.
NOAA
scientists are cleaning bathrooms in Seattle
Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West
Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering
critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to
renew their lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal,
janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.
State
recommends keeping pinto abalone on endangered species list
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Tuesday that
it recommends keeping the state’s only native abalone on its
endangered species list.
Proposed
rule change on endangered species triggers alarm for
environmentalists
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries
Service said in a proposed rule issued Wednesday that habitat
modification should not be considered harm because it is not the
same as intentionally targeting a species, called “take.”
New
study shows increased pathogens near B.C. open-net salmon
farms
A new study led by the Pacific Salmon Foundation and four northern
Vancouver Island First Nations suggests that water collected near
active open-net salmon farms contains four times more pathogens
harmful to wild salmon than samples collected near inactive salmon
farms.
Trump Lifts Commercial Fishing Ban On Key Protected Area In Central Pacific
President Donald Trump has opened one the largest protected swaths of
the Central Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing, lifting a ban that
sought to help conserve the region’s imperiled fish, shark, sea turtles,
marine mammals and other species. Papahānaumokuākea, the protected area
around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, could be next.
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