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West Coast & Pacific

Boat slips in San Diego, Calif. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Uphill battle to recruit new commercial fishermen

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The U.S. Secretary of Commerce selected the governors' second-choice nominees for two open seats on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Commerce bypasses governors' top picks for North Pacific Council seats

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ODFW is seeking public input on rules, including new electronic vessel monitoring requirements aimed at reducing the risk of whale entanglement. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Oregon seeks input on Dungeness crab rule changes

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Federal disaster relief funding totaling $123.6 million will be distributed among fisheries in Alaska, Oregon, California, and Washington's Squaxin Island Tribe to help fishing communities recover from a series of commercial fishery collapses between 2019 and 2023. Shutterstock photo.

Commerce Department releases $123.6 million in fishery disaster aid

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Fishery biologists Chris Anderson, Chris Long, and KC Dill prepare to release a satellite-tagged Pacific cod. Before release, the fish is lowered to depth to aid survival. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Scientists tag Pacific cod to track climate shifts in the Bering Sea

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Spawning chum salmon in the Chehalis River, Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Hilborn: respect indigenous, western fisheries knowledge

Margaret Bauman

Fall-run Chinook salmon migrate to California's Central Valley rivers to spawn. Photo by Miles Daniels

NOAA says $123 million coming for six ‘fishery resource disasters’

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By June 17, one of two Costco Warehouses in Anchorage had sold over 185 pounds of Copper River sockeye salmon for $14.99 a pound. Margaret Bauman photo.

Copper River sockeyes selling out

Margaret Bauman

Alaska's five Pacific salmon species are all forecast to see lower harvests in 2026, with global sockeye, keta, and pink supplies also expected to decline significantly from recent averages. Shutterstock photo.

Report forecasts 15% drop in global salmon harvest

Margaret Bauman

Initially established under President Bush in 2009, the no-fishing zone around Wake, Johnston and Jarvis in the Pacific Islands Heritage Monument was extended to 200 miles by President Obama in 2014. Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council gra

Trump moves to reopen Pacific remote waters for fishing

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The Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2025 would continue funding for the community-based commission that supports marine habitat restoration across the Northwest Straits region of Puget Sound. Shutterstock photo.

House passes bill to reauthorize Northwest Straits Commission

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