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A close-up of a salmon

Tribal fishermen go high tech — at Intel lunch

Bon Appetit Management Company serves regional fish to diners while exploring the rich culture of Northwest tribes.

Rick George
June 25, 2012 10 February 2020

Tsunami debris reveals one ocean, indivisible

Last Friday was Oceans Day around the world and events both personal and global reminded me that an ocean like the Pacific creates a continuously evolving connectivity among human communities around its edges. I live on the Oregon coast in …

Edward Backus
June 11, 2012 07 May 2020

Ilwaco Fishing Community

How Washington can support fishing communities

Lately, national fisheries policy makers have left local fishing communities hanging. At issue is how to ensure responsible community-based fishermen — without huge financial backing — remain fishing, as the nation downsizes the number of boats on the water to …

Megan Mackey
May 11, 2012 07 May 2020

A fishing boat in Sitka, Alaska.

An Alaska fishing community takes care of its own

When it comes to grassroots fishing organizations, they don’t get much more innovative than the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association, based in Sitka and led by Linda Behnken. Behnken and ALFA are working on many fronts, supporting fish stock conservation, raising …

Oakley Brooks
May 3, 2012 10 February 2020

Fishing boat at San Francisco's Pier 45

Future We Want: Community-driven fisheries

In 2005, an outspoken, gregarious San Francisco crab fisherman named Larry Collins wrote down his vision for a more prosperous future. It ran to 20 pages of handwritten scrawl but it boiled down to one idea: small-scale Bay Area fishermen …

Oakley Brooks
April 19, 2012 07 May 2020

The Skeena River photo by Sam Beebe

Patagonia creates new market for First Nations’ salmon

By Tim Gibbins The Skeena River in northwestern British Columbia is a fabled salmon fishery with many fish-processing plants along its banks. But the company running the newest plant in Thornhill, BC, might surprise you. It’s Patagonia. Beginning this week …

guest
April 13, 2012 01 October 2014

Fishing boat in the waters of Alaska

Marine Stewardship Council certification worth the trouble for Alaska fisheries

By Allison Bidlack From Alaska Dispatch, 3/8/12 Lately, the seafood world has been abuzz with the news that the Alaska salmon industry has pulled out of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification process, after much negotiation and debate. This means …

guest
March 9, 2012 19 December 2015

Why The Economist has it wrong on overfishing

Edward Backus
February 29, 2012 15 January 2020

Gray whale in the ocean

When Gray Whales Return

Spencer B. Beebe
January 18, 2012 14 January 2020