fisheries

The Bureau of Reclamation announced plans to lower the elevation of central Washington's Banks Lake, located between Ephrata and Grand Coulee Dam.

California’s Central Valley water districts are working to achieve a more holistic approach for San Joaquin River fisheries through voluntary agreements, while also pursuing court challenges to a state plan on downstream fish flows.

The Chinese tariffs will be going into effect in July. The NFU wants the Dept. of Ag. to get a farm bill that protects against severe market and price swings.

PORT ORCHARD  (AP) — Federal scientists at a research facility near Seattle are studying ways to make it easier and more efficient to commercially grow a fish prized for its buttery flavor. The project to grow sablefish is part of a larger effort by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to support marine aquaculture to feed growing demand worldwide for seafood...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Northwest fisheries managers are creating a response plan should there be a return of warm water conditions biologists say was the main factor in killing some 90 percent of adult sockeye salmon returning to the Columbia Basin last summer. ...