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Chair of the Senate Ag Committee, Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan topping her list of priorities is responding to COVID-19, the hunger crisis and the broken food supply chain, and more.

LONGVIEW (AP) — Washington state's Department of Fish and Wildlife opened up a highly anticipated one-day season for smelt fishing on the lower Cowlitz River — but maybe no one told the smelt.
Thousands of people turned out with dip-nets in hand Saturday morning, but when the five-ho…

MUKILTEO (AP) — Millions of pounds of Dungeness crab are pulled from Pacific Northwest waters each year in a more than century-old ritual for commercial and recreational fishermen.
But as marine waters absorb more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, federal scientists are worried that the ocean&a…