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Disaster Determined in 2020 Puget Sound Fall Chum Salmon Fishery
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Disaster Determined in 2020 Puget Sound Fall Chum Salmon Fishery

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has determined that a commercial fishery failure due to a fishery resource disaster occurred in the 2020 Squaxin Island Tribe Puget Sound fall chum salmon, making the fishery eligible for NOAA disaster assistance. The determination, in response to a request from Squaxin Island Tribe Chairman Kristopher Peters, was confirmed by NOAA Fisheries on Jan 12. A fishery disaster determination must meet specific requirements under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 2007. For example, there must be economic impacts and an unexpected large decrease in fish stock biomass or other change that results in significant loss of access to the fishery resource from specific allowable causes. Fishery participants may also qualify for di...
UW Study Shows Parasite Decline in Puget Sound
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UW Study Shows Parasite Decline in Puget Sound

A University of Washington fisheries scientist says her research shows that fish parasites in Puget Sound have been in decline over the last century. “We all have this sense that as climate change proceeds that what we get is increased parasite outbreaks; that we are messing with Earth and that Earth is messing (with us) right back,” Associate Professor Chelsea L. Wood of the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences said in early January.  Until the study was conducted, Wood said, there was little information on wildlife parasites other than the impact of parasites on humans. What they were shocked to learn, she said, is that parasite life cycles are like Rube Goldberg machines; the more complex they are, the more likely they are to fail. What Wood and her colleagues found was that p...