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Jes BurnsOregon Gov. Tina Kotek, along with six state agencies, declared their support this week for the federal government’s proposal to allow floating offshore wind energy projects off Oregon’s south coast, despite mixed feelings from local communities, the fishing industry and Tribes. -
Kim Hansen/CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia CommonsCommercial fishermen in Coos Bay are protesting what they see as a rushed effort to bring offshore wind farms to the Oregon coast.
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In some cases, the controls came too late, but humans finally figured out that they were taking too many fish out of the ocean. So they put catch limits… -
The image of the factory ship with huge nets scooping fish out of the ocean is a powerful one, and commercial fisheries are generally regulated. Not so…
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December 1st is the rough target date for the opening of Dungeness crab season in the Pacific. But it didn't open until mid-January this year, and may…
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Recent decades have not been kind to rural Oregon. As natural resources come under increased pressure -- and the economy becomes more globalized -- small,…
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It sounds almost too good to be true: we can fish the oceans AND feed the earth's growing population, sustainably. That is the finding of several…
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Precipitation returned to the region this year, but that does not mean everything returned to normal.Some salmon species are turning up in the ocean in…
