fisheries

Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group is using a simple light trapping technique to collect survey data and learn more about the Dungeness crab’s mysterious life cycle.

Surplus then shortage, low weights, farm fish, imports, lower demand contribute to tangle of challenges.

Seattle City Light and state and federal regulators disagree on how to improve operations at its upper Skagit River hydropower dams to enhance salmon conditions.

The shellfish can encrust dam infrastructure and clog water pipes, and threaten to cause millions of dollars worth of problems.

Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts — and they overlap more than you'd think.

Members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe harvested about 200 coho salmon from their home river in October – fewer than expected, but it marked a milestone for river restoration and a new subsistence fishery.

The Biden administration has announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels known as culverts that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's disaster declaration for salmon and crab fisheries in Washington and Alaska opens the door for financial relief as part of an omnibus spending bill being negotiated by U.S. lawmakers.

Alaska officials have canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest, and for the first time, have also scrapped the winter harvest of smaller snow crab.

Native cutthroat trout, an iconic part of the mountain West, thrive in cold streams. But warmer weather has allowed invaders to move in — and it's killing off the cutthroats.