Trump's NOAA Firings Raise Doubts for Pacific Northwest Fisheries
Owen Liu was hired to help solve a mystery.
Fishers had been plying the Pacific Ocean in search of hake, a species making up one of the most lucrative fisheries on the West Coast.
But the catch hadn't met expectations for a decade, Liu said.
Liu was tapped last year to unravel the conundrum. He was developing a tool to help understand Pacific hake distribution — before being fired by the Trump administration along with more than 600 other National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration probationary employees.
Since then, Liu and his fired...
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