by Susan Keown | Feb 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Eric Scigliano (@SeattleFlotsam) just completed a series on the Fraser River, or Tacoutche Tesse (Mighty One), for the Salish Current. In the first piece in the series, Scigliano gives an overview of the still-undammed river’s geography, its fisheries, and its history...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Demand for octopus is rising, Eric Scigliano writes in National Geographic, in part for use in Italian, Japanese, and Spanish cuisine. As wild populations decline, aquaculture is an option. But many people object for ecological and ethical reasons, and because of our...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Over a month this spring, Wudan Yan filed four reports from Myanmar for Mongabay, a nonprofit conservation and environmental science news platform. Wudan (@wudanyan) looked at the environmental threat of harvesting mangroves for illegal coal production and a possible...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 4, 2018 | ScienceWire
Gooseneck barnacles just got a nudge closer to our dinner plates. Heather Wiedenhoft, writing in Hakai magazine, explains that they are difficult to harvest and vulnerable to overfishing. She talks with a University of Oregon researcher who is making crucial...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Kevin Bailey, writing in Earth Island Journal, has good news for conscientious consumers. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch has a long list of unsustainable shellfish choices—except for abalone from a California aquaculture company. Abalone cultivation isn’t...
