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Yo! Rockfish ReCompression Video – Funny and really worth watching
Are you a fisherman? Catch rockfish? Check out this newer rap video on how to get rockfish back safely into the water and save it. Remember that rockfish take a long time to grow, and they stay in...
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Ocean salmon quota options reflect strong runs – Tacoma News Tribune
Good news at least from the forecast for these fish. Under options approved this week, recreation anglers fishing off the Washington coast this year could see a higher catch quota for chinook salmon...
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New Quotas Clear Way For Banner Summer Salmon Fishing In Pacific Ocean –...
Good news for sports fishermen this year. A federal fisheries management panel approved what some charter captains are calling the best ocean fishing season in 20 years. Meeting at a hotel in...
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Goodbye and thank you to Carol Burns – Northwest Filmmaker
On this 40th anniversary of the Boldt Decision, news has come that filmmaker Carol Burns passed away on April 22nd in Olympia. She was a young filmmaker when she documented the struggles of the native...
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Fishing report from the PDN
Wondering how the salt water fishing is going? Here’s todays’ report from the PDN. http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20140801/NEWS/308019985Filed under: Puget Sound Tagged: chinook, fishing,...
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Thoughts on the Mount Polley Tailing Mines Disaster – What it means to us
The ongoing nightmare on Quesnel Lake from the Mount Polley Tailing “Pond”, has huge ramifications for us in Washington State and the Olympic Peninsula. This fiasco is being whitewashed by the...
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‘Warm blob’ keeps possible record sockeye run away from U.S. waters –...
The story of how this year’s great hot weather has affected the salmon runs. In a development that has left local fishermen scratching their heads, it appears an unusually warm section of ocean water...
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New Fishing Rule Protects Endangered Seabird – AP
New laws proposed to protect the short-tailed albatross. Federal fisheries managers are proposing to require West Coast commercial fishermen who unroll long lines of baited hooks on the ocean bottom to...
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How Anglers Are Learning To Save Fish That Get ‘The Bends’– KPLU
Good article on the device that is saving fish from the bends. If you fish, you should take a listen. Each year, sport fishermen unintentionally kill millions of deep-water fish they don’t want or...
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Coastal researchers launch blog to share findings about ocean – Watching Our...
Lots of fish from tropical waters are being seen in the surveys reported by Chris. Check out this quick read. It’s an interesting time for researchers to begin writing a blog about ocean conditions off...
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Dozens of sturgeon found dead in Columbia River – Tri-City Herald
And more results of our inability to stop global warming. The mass die off of fish that have survived for hundreds of thousands of years. Our warming rivers cannot support them. Washington Fish and...
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Washington eases fishing restrictions on some rivers – AP
Apparently the Quilcene River has been reopened. As conditions improve in some Washington rivers, state officials are easing fishing restrictions and closures put in place earlier this summer because...
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State invites comments on fishing, hunting, rec programs and policies
The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking input from citizens on it’s policies and procedures. They also want thoughts on what could be improved. You can go to the Department’s...
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Ocean fish numbers on ‘brink of collapse,’ WWF reports – Thompson Reuters via...
Stocks of group that includes tuna, mackerel, bonito down 75 per cent since 1970 While I hate to post really dire news, this article is important because we (all countries) subsidize fishing in many...
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State, tribes reach agreement on Puget Sound salmon fishing plan – AP (KOMO...
State and tribal fishery officials said Thursday that after weeks of negotiations they’ve agreed on a plan that will allow for a 2016-2017 Puget Sound salmon-fishing season. Recreational and non-tribal...
View ArticleMore details come to light on upcoming salmon fishing seasons – Seattle Times
Good overview of what the fishing season might bring. Now that we’ve gotten all the obvious salmon fishing seasons finalized lets dissect what kind of summer and fall opportunities there are besides...
View ArticleFishing net on Hood Canal removed after five months – Kitsap Sun
So NOAA and the State are no longer funding the Derelict Gear project. Here’s part of the results of that failure on their part. A deadly fishing net, first reported in November abandoned in Hood...
View ArticleOctopus fishing rules are topic of meeting April 23 in Port Townsend
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has scheduled a public meeting for Tuesday, April 23 in Port Townsend to solicit input on the protection of Puget Sound’s giant Pacific octopus population....
View ArticlePink salmon numbers may threaten other North Pacific species – AP
The pieces to the salmon puzzle continue to come in from the various angles of research being done. The scientists in this article don’t claim to be have the sole answer but are raising questions that...
View ArticleChina’s Surprisingly Robust System of Marine Protection -Hakai Magazine
Very important story out of Canada about the publication of news that China has quietly implemented a large number Marine Sanctuaries along the coasts. Given their over-fishing of most if not all their...
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