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OR salmon threatened by increased logging
The tough balance between logging and fishing continues along the Oregon coast. Killer whales aren’t even on the distant radar in this article… clipped from www.oregonlive.com Coastal salmon at center of forest debate by Michael Milstein, The Oregonian Tuesday December … Continue reading
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No mention of orcas in Columbia salmon injunction email
The appended email from the “Columbia and Snake River Campaigns” provides a helpful synopsis (despite the awful typos) of recent legal activity regarding the management of salmon in the river system. I find it noteworthy that the supporting quotes (and … Continue reading
$8B salmon recovery failure
This 60-Minutes story makes it clear that removal of the four lower Snake River dams makes fiscal sense to the American tax-payer. As an oceanographer, however, I’m intrigued with how little seems to be known about how the salmon fare … Continue reading
New NW salmon recovery plans
Lisa Stiffler’s blog calls out 3 new plans and a new study released Monday May 6, 2008 — http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/environment/archives/138288.asp
Posted in Salmon
Scientists seek to silence sonar in the Salish Sea
The following open letter was sent today to Governmental and Naval leaders on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. As of 3/11/2012 it has been signed by 20 biologists and bioacousticians who have studied the killer whales of the Salish … Continue reading
Posted in acoustics, navy sonar, Northern residents, RSS-shared, Sustainability, Transients
NOAA’s search & tag cruise embarks
Last update — 3/2/2012, 10:00 Brad Hanson and his colleagues from the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, including Marla Holt and Dawn Noren, embarked today (2/16/12) from Newport, OR, aboard the NOAA ship Shimada (MMSI 369970147) to search for southern resident … Continue reading
Canadian recovery plans need public comment
Thanks to Cathy Bacon for forwarding this notice regarding Canadian “action plans” for recovering the northern and southern resident killer whale populations. It will be interesting to see to what extent managing salmon (farmed or wild) for killer whales is … Continue reading
Condit dam removal video and fact archive
This is an excellent overview of the Condit Dam history with a focus on salmon recovery and preparations for the removal (from the dam owner PacifiCorp by Narrative Lab). One interesting point made in the video is that the reservoir … Continue reading
Posted in BR-rss, dam removal, Salmon
Updates from NOAA on Elwha science
Yesterday Sarah Morely of NOAA/NWFSC Watershed Program, Fish Ecology Division gave a 40-minute synopsis of the “Elwha River Dam Removal – Past, Present, Future.” My notes are appended and the NOAA site has an abstract with recommended references (also appended … Continue reading
Posted in BR-rss, dam removal, RSS-shared, Salmon, Southern resident natural history
The Elwha recovery as environmental hope
Indian Country Today has provided an excellent archive of words spoken at the Elwha dam removal ceremony (9/17/11) by Bill Bradley, former Senator from New Jersey and past Presidential candidate. Part I provides insightful details into the decades of political … Continue reading
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