News Summary September 1, 2017
Today's Main Story: Latest NOAA Surveys Off West Coast Spell More Bad News for Salmon
Today's lead item reports that a NOAA Fisheries survey team has finished their spring and summer surveys off the coast of the Pacific Northwest with little evidence of juvenile coho or Chinook salmon. The team also discovered that ocean conditions foreshadow low abundance in the coming years.
Meanwhile, tuna-fishing nations have agreed on a plan to replenish the severely depleted Pacific bluefin stocks. The plan came after a week-long meeting in Busan, South Korea. The northern committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission agreed to ...
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