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The Alaska State House Fisheries Committee on Tuesday gave unanimous support to a resolution that calls for state and federal agencies to keep Southeast Alaskas troll fishery clear from a

A federal judge is set to decide a lawsuit that could close Southeast Alaskas winter and summer commercial troll fisheries.

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Some researchers say the open-net-pen farms are breeding grounds for parasites, viruses and bacteria that devastate wild populations.

In British Columbia and Washington, legislators are simultaneously weighing whether to allow this controversial farming practice to persist.

This approach to salmon farming is already banned in California, Oregon, and Alaska, leaving British Columbia and Washington state as the last two holdouts.

Agriculture your username February 11, 2021 Wild Fish Conservancy filed a complaint on Wednesday in the Western District of Washington alleging that the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and its director, chair, vice, chair, and commission members violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) because it is “causing ‘take’” of threatened fish including Puget Sound steelhead, Washington’s state fish, Puget Sound Chinook salmon, and bull trout through its steelhead hatchery pr...