Study: Sea turtles could go extinct
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON It s a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch. Biologists like Matthew Godfrey say on...
5.5K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0

Blue whales make return to Alaska waters
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. The endangered whales, possibly the ...
4.6K - May. 18, 2009; scored 749.0

Oregon rejects fisheries tax exemption
SALEM (AP) - The Oregon Supreme Court has rejected a property tax exemption for the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission office in Portland. The court on Thursday upheld a Multnomah County decision to reject a tax exemption application by the r...
0.7K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 766.0

Coquille, Coos systems starting to produce steelhead
Column by Richard DeChambeau With our recent lack of rain, steelhead fishing on local rivers has been slow because of low water conditions. We seem to have plenty of steelhead in all our river systems, though, with the Coquille leading the pack. I ve...
3.8K - Jan. 24, 2009; scored 749.0

Feds release remaining $70 million salmon assistance
GRANTS PASS The Bush administration has come through with the remaining $70 million of the disaster relief that Congress appropriated to help salmon fishermen and related business after the West Coast fishery was closed last summer. Congre...
3.9K - Nov. 26, 2008; scored 891.0