by Susan Keown | May 6, 2023 | ScienceWire
New member Sarah Trent (@sftrent) writes for High Country News on the new U.N. High Seas Treaty and whether the agreement might help Pacific salmon. Some of the experts Trent spoke with doubted whether the new marine protected areas spurred by the treaty would have a...
by Susan Keown | May 6, 2023 | ScienceWire
A story by Samanatha Larson (@samantson) highlights a new interactive resource that synthesizes Indigenous mariculture knowledge and practice throughout the Pacific. Her feature in Signals Magazine, a publication of the Australian National Maritime Museum, delves into...
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 Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In Pacific NW Magazine, Sandi Doughton (@SandiDoughton) writes about Northwest Indigenous tribes are leading lamprey-restoration efforts via hatcheries and advocacy. The last century of dam-building, habitat destruction and even deliberate poisoning have inflicted...
by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
For High Country News, Carly Cassella (@carlycassella) introduces us to an ongoing research project aiming to solve the mystery of an unknown species of oyster-parasitizing mud worm that is showing up in Northwest oyster beds. Where did these worms come from, and what...