Once again this year, the Salmon For All annual meeting will be held at the Astoria Yacht Club, located on Youngs Bay adjacent to the north end of the old Youngs Bay bridge. The date is Tuesday, December 14, 2010. The membership meeting {read more}

One of the frequently repeated lines about the Columbia River gillnet fishery quoted by members of the Northwest chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) is that nowhere else in the lower 48 states is gillnetting {read more}

On August 6, 2010, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released a Mitchell Act Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) that has been in the works for the past five years. The DEIS can be accessed on the NMFS Northwest {read more}

The annual report on Stock Status and Fisheries for Fall Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, Chum Salmon, Summer Steelhead, and White Sturgeon is now available from the Joint Management Staff of the Washington and Oregon Departments of Fish {read more}

Every year following the conclusion of the Columbia River spring Chinook season, the Joint Management Staff of the Washington and Oregon Departments of Fish & Wildlife compile a post-season analysis of pre-season forecasts vs. {read more}

On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, an editorial appeared in the Chinook Observer of Long Beach, Washington, discussing the ramifications and possibilities of experimental test-fisheries with alternative commercial fishing gears being conducted {read more}

On Sunday, May 16, 2010, the Columbian newspaper in Vancouver, Washington published an op-ed piece by Bryan Irwin, Northwest regional executive director of the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) on the mark-selective recreational {read more}

Friday, April 9, 2010 was the last day to file public comment on the Washington Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board’s updated Draft Recovery Plan. The plan is a very lengthy document, which contains many worthy ideas to bring about {read more}

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington will be deploying an extensive number of acoustic receiver arrays between mid to late April and the end of August 2010. Locations of these arrays will be sited from {read more}

Our copy of the Oregon Corinthian Sailing Association 2010 Sail Race Book arrived recently, along with the 2010 OCSA Chart of Numerical Courses and Windward & Leeward Courses. Readers may recall we had some unanticipated schedule {read more}