Ben Fisher is a Seattle-based freelance writer. Previously, he worked as night and copy editor at the Jerusalem Post, Israel’s largest English language newspaper, and as digital editor of Jewish Quarterly. He is fluent English, French, Hebrew, and Arabic.
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The Washington State Department of Ecology last week held its first public hearing on the renewal of permits for four Cooke Aquaculture net pen facilities in the state
… Read MoreThe combination of climate change and dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers has raised the summer temperature of the rivers by nearly three degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius), according to a new report released by the Environmental Protection Agency.
As a result, the temperatures of the rivers during the warm months of the year have sometimes exceeded 70 degrees Fahrenheit, which has killed migrating salmon. The reservoirs
… Read MoreFour companies are vying for the USD 100,000 (EUR 88,000) prize awarded to the winner of F3 Fish Oil Challenge, awarded to whichever of them sells the most “fish-free” fish oil for use in aquaculture
… Read MoreA study led by Rutgers University has shown that the choice to conserve or overharvest renewable resources such as fish is often due to habits and past decisions, which could help fisheries discover why some succeed at conservation and others fail.
The study, "Path-dependent institutions drive alternative stable states in conservation," was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It showed that conservation is
… Read MoreA recent study by the University of Oxford has shown that fears of illegal fishing in protected ocean zones may be over-exaggerated ...
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… Read MoreThe Fisheries Council of Canada announced 14 January that it would be launching a partnership with the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) to help develop emerging leaders in the Canadian seafood industry
… Read MoreThe Dzawada’enuxw First Nation filed a claim in Vancouver federal court last Thursday against Canada’s federal government for authorizing licenses for 10 fish farms in tribal waters without consulting or seeking consent from the group.
The Dzawada’enuxwm, from Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Canada, say that the net-pen Atlantic salmon farms owned by Marine Harvest and Cermaq along the British Columbia coast pollute and
… Read MoreThe new Pacific Salmon Treaty went into effect on the first of the year after the treaty’s last 10-year iteration expired on its own terms on 31 December.
The Pacific Salmon Treaty is renegotiated every decade between the United States and Canada to govern salmon catch, research, and enhancement in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made public last week the sections of the
… Read MoreA study carried out by the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries’ Northwest Fisheries Science Center and published in the journal Global Change Biology has revealed that as carbon dioxide emissions are absorbed by the ocean, salmon may begin to lose their sense of smell
… Read MoreThe Washington State Department of Ecology is accepting comments on permit renewals for four Cooke Aquaculture net-pen facilities in the state.
If granted, the permits will remain in effect until a state ban on net-pen farming comes into effect in 2022.
Cooke leases the areas it uses for fish farming from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, but oversight of its adherences to its permits is also performed by
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