Salish Sea News Week in Review August 29 2025

Aloha Friday Before Labor Day!
Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the United States. (Wikipedia)

Victoria area in B.C. breaks over 100-year-old temperature record amid hot spell 
Lytton records high of 38.6 C as temperature records broken throughout province. 

B.C. recreational anglers get rare chance to reel in sockeye amid bumper salmon run
Fisheries and Oceans Canada opens recreational fishing for species on stretch of Fraser River for limited time. 

Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm
The Trump administration has ordered companies to stop construction of a wind farm that's being built off the coast of Rhode Island. 

Frustrated Commercial Fishers Are Hungry for More Sockeye
This year’s huge Fraser salmon return is lifting spirits. And raising questions about how DFO sets catch limits. 

WA to conserve 77,000 acres of older forests on state lands
The move is in line with promises Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove made while campaigning. Timber industry groups and some activists fighting to save “legacy forests” were both unhappy with the outcome. 

Ferguson pauses approval of major solar project in central Washington
The governor wants the Carriger Solar project to proceed, but not until the Yakama Nation has more time to weigh in on cultural resource protections. 

Trump administration advances plan to reverse federal rule that limits logging in national forests
The ‘Roadless Rule’ has prohibited new road construction, a prerequisite for large-scale logging, on vast swaths of federal land since 2001. 

Steven Cook, a Former Chemical Industry Lawyer, Now at E.P.A., Wants to Change PFAS Rules 
A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters. 

Ten years of confronting a costly green crab invasion in Puget Sound
Since that first discovery, nearly nine years ago, green crabs have spread to more than 30 trapping sites throughout the northern half of Puget Sound and Hood Canal. 

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