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National Working Waterfronts gathering: seeking innovation in coastal communities

Across the United States, shorelines are getting squeezed. Expanding populations, industries, and potential uses for coastal areas add up to increasing conflicts over access to waterfronts. Communities both large and small are seeking creative solutions to address evolving waterfront challenges. …

Emma Deans
February 21, 2013 04 May 2020

Past Indigenous Leadership Awards honorees

A rich sense of honor: Learning from tribal leaders

In this world of broken economies, climates, and institutions, it’s an opportune time to ask: what if Native people were in charge?

Spencer B. Beebe
December 6, 2012 02 December 2019

Billy Frank, Jr. hauling salmon into a crate from a river boat

Billy Frank, Jr.:
River revolutionary

Oakley Brooks
August 30, 2012 02 December 2019

Spencer Beebe stands next to Ezcurra outside on Ecotrust's terrace

A sense of place in Sonora

Spencer B. Beebe
July 19, 2012 29 July 2016

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 …

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April 13, 2012 01 October 2014