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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American and Canadian negotiators have successfully brokered a deal to renew the Pacific Salmon Treaty. The compromise agreement has now been sent to Ottawa and Washington D.C. to be approved and ratified by their respective national governments.
The Pacific Salmon Treaty is renegotiated every decade between the two countries to govern salmon catch, research, and enhancement in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The treaty
… Read MoreA number of fishing vessel co-ops are joining the Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) in the group’s first expansion since 2004
… Read MoreFish 2.0, a global organization that connects seafood start-ups with investors in an effort to enhance the sustainability of the seafood industry, has announced a track open to U.S. aquaculture businesses in 2018-2019.
The program will begin in November with a workshop and networking event in Baltimore, Maryland, then the Gulf Coast in Biloxi, Mississippi, in February, and concluding on the West Coast with a workshop in Seattle, Washington
… Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Commerce has put forward a new plan to establish deep-sea fish farms in Alaska that has many residents of the state up in
… Read MoreThe totals for Alaska’s commercial salmon season have come in 31 percent below what was forecasted by state scientists, but some fisheries have performed better than expected, which has left fishermen and fisheries officials scratching their heads
… Read MorePhotos that circulated earlier in August of J-35 – the name given to a Puget Sound resident orca who kept her dead calf afloat for more than two weeks – left a lasting impression on many in the Seattle area, who wondered what they could do to help the pod, many of whom are malnourished due to a lack of salmon in their habitat.
The answer has come to some quicker than expected: Some Seattle-area restaurants have stopped serving
… Read MoreU.S. mega-retailer Target has decided to resume its sale of farmed salmon, nearly a decade after it shifted to selling exclusively wild-caught Alaskan salmon.
A year after Target made its decision to sell only wild salmon in 2010, the retailer announced that it would only sell sustainable and traceable seafood. Now, the Minneapolis-based retail giant seems to have shifted gears, claiming in a recent release that farmed salmon can be
… Read MoreMarine Harvest’s innovative new conceptual designs for salmon farms could be coming to Canada
… Read MoreA land-based fish farm is expected to be established in the Slocan Valley, in the mountainous western reaches of British Columbia, Canada.
Valhalla Aquaculture put forth a proposal to draw water from
… Read MoreThe University of Alaska – Fairbanks is adding a full-time faculty member at its Kodiak, Alaska, U.S.A. campus to teach and research mariculture, according to UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Dean Bradley Moran.
Founded in 1981 on Near Island, the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center, which houses the UAF's mariculture program, used to benefit from significant federal funding in years past, but recently has fallen into
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