News & Announcements

Volunteers Needed for a Juvenile Salmon/Fish Community Ecology Study in Grays Harbor

Feb 03, 2012

Volunteers Needed for a Juvenile Salmon/Fish Community Ecology Study in Grays Harbor

Fishing the Nursery is Shrinking Chinook

Jan 24, 2012

Fishing the Nursery is Shrinking Chinook - 2011 Wild Fish Journal article by Nick Gayeski.

Caught Far From Home: Pacific Salmon Treaty Managed Fishery Chinook Catch Composition 1999 - 2010

Jan 18, 2012

Caught Far From Home: Pacific Salmon Treaty Managed Fishery Chinook Catch Composition 1999 - 2010

How to Kill a Reborn River

Jan 09, 2012

Article in the winter edition of Fly Rod & Reel from Ted Williams on the Elwha Fish Recovery

Checkout the Fall Edition of Wild Fish Runs eNews

Dec 20, 2011

Wild Fish Runs eNews - Fall Edition

BC Cover-up Questions the Dual Mandate of U.S. and Canadian Salmon Management

Nov 30, 2011

Yesterday a leaked manuscript revealed that the Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus (ISAv) was detected in B.C. as early as 2004, and that Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada personnel refused to release the information. This comes just a month after Canadian officials aggressively denied that the virus was present in B.C. and trumpeted their rigorous efforts to detect it and protect native salmon.

ISAv Cover-Up

Nov 29, 2011

ISAv cover-up by DFO

Thank You - Wild Fish Soirée & Benefit Auction Wrap-Up

Nov 08, 2011

 

WFC Learns of ISAv Detection in B.C. Coho Salmon

Oct 28, 2011

Wild Fish Conservancy Learns of ISAv Detection in B.C. Coho Salmon

WFC Response to ISAv Detection in B.C.

Oct 18, 2011

News that Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus (ISAv) was detected in coastal British Columbia sockeye salmon is greatly alarming. The presence of this virus, never before detected in the Pacific Northwest, poses a serious threat to native salmon species that are already in decline or endangered.

Lethal Atlantic Salmon Virus Found in BC Sockeye

Oct 17, 2011

Wild B.C. sockeye salmon test positive for potentially devastating virus

WFC Scientists to Present at Gilbert Ichthyological Society Annual Meeting

Sep 30, 2011

WFC Scientists to Present at Gilbert Ichthyological Society Annual Meeting

Wild-fish advocates plan to sue over Elwha hatchery

Sep 17, 2011

Seattle Times article

Agencies Warned Over Elwha River Fish Hatchery

Sep 16, 2011

A sixty-day notice letter mailed today to federal and state agencies charges that these agencies are violating the Endangered Species by ignoring best available science and the needs of killer whales and native steelhead by funding a fish hatchery that will impede the recovery of the Elwha River ecosystem.

WFC Scientists to Present at Annual AFS Meeting

Sep 05, 2011

WFC Scientists to Present at Annual AFS Meeting

Checkout the Summer Edition of Wild Fish Runs eNews

Aug 31, 2011

Checkout the Summer Edition of Wild Fish Runs eNews

Volunteer Anglers Needed for WDFW Neah Bay Assessment

Aug 11, 2011

Volunteer Anglers Needed for WDFW Neah Bay Assessment

Unmapped Creeks Go Unprotected | Ghost Streams

Aug 10, 2011

 

Feds Revoke Authorization to Kill Sea Lions at Bonneville Dam in Response to Wild Fish Conservancy Lawsuit

Jul 26, 2011

Feds Revoke Authorization to Kill Sea Lions at Bonneville Dam in Response to Wild Fish Conservancy Lawsuit

Restore the Elwha Without Hatchery Fish

Jul 12, 2011

Restore the Elwha Without Hatchery Fish

Give Big for Wild Fish! Stretch Your Support for WFC on June 23

Jun 16, 2011

 

The Looming Missouri Dam Flood

Jun 07, 2011

WFC Board Member Bernard Shanks Editorial on Dam Failure

WFC B.C. Research Highlighted in Recent Article

May 31, 2011

WFC B.C. research highlighted in article targeting new Clayoquot fish farm proposal

Sea Lion Killing Suspended at Bonneville Dam in Response to HSUS/WFC Lawsuit

May 25, 2011

Sea Lion Killing Suspended at Bonneville Dam in Response to HSUS/WFC Lawsuit

Volunteers Needed for Cherry Creek Restoration

May 19, 2011

Volunteers Needed for Cherry Creek Restoration

Checkout the Spring Edition of Wild Fish Runs eNews

May 04, 2011

Spring Edition of Wild Fish Runs eNews

WFC Teams Up with Dr. Alexandra Morton at B.C. Event

Apr 26, 2011

WFC to Present Alongside Alexandra Morton at B.C. Event

Volunteers Still Needed for Grays Harbor Juvenile Salmon/Fish Community Study

Apr 18, 2011

Juvenile Salmon/Fish Community Study in Grays Harbor

WFC Presenting at San Juan County Natural Resource Data Workshop

Apr 14, 2011

WFC Presenting at San Juan County Natural Resource Data Workshop

Canada's DFO Silencing Ground Breaking Research

Mar 27, 2011

Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Steelhead Summit Alliance Annual Meeting Saturday, March 12th

Mar 09, 2011

Steelhead Summit Alliance Annual Meeting this Saturday

Don Chapman Speaks at Annual AFS Meeting

Feb 28, 2011

Dr. Don Chapman speech notes from American Fisheries Society annual meeting

WFC Study Should Help with Puget Sound Steelhead Recovery Goals

Feb 25, 2011

Historical abundance of Puget Sound steelhead article published in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volunteers Needed for a Juvenile Salmon/Fish Community Study in Grays Harbor

Feb 25, 2011

Volunteers Needed for a Juvenile Salmon/Fish Community Study in Grays Harbor

WFC Presents to WDNR Forest Practices Board

Feb 16, 2011

WFC Presents Water Typing to Washington Department of Natural Resources Forest Practices Board

The reckoning: A looming decision on endangered salmon will set the stage for momentous battles over the future

Feb 12, 2011

Op-ed article in the Oregonian by Paul VanDevelder

Checkout the Winter Edition of Wild Fish Runs eNews

Feb 08, 2011

 

WFC Presenting at San Juan County Natural Resource Data Workshop

WFC's Director of Science and Research Jamie Glasgow will be presenting at an upcoming San Juan County Natural Resource Data Workshop.

Save the Date for the 2011 Wild Fish Soiree & Benefit Auction

Save the Date

Two Very Important Rulings for Wild Fish

Two Lawsuits With Two Very Important Rulings for Wild Fish

Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Finds “Biological Opinion” For Federal Hatchery “Arbitrary & Capricious”

Dec 09, 2010

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to ensure that the salmon hatchery doesn't endanger the tiny remaining bull trout population in Icicle Creek, a tributary of the Wenatchee River.

WFC's San Juan County Work Highlighted

WFC's San Juan County Work Highlighted in the latest NL from Friends of the San Juans.

Lawsuit Over Unpermitted Discharges At National Fish Hatchery Settled

Aug 05, 2010

A lawsuit filed by Wild Fish Conservancy saying that the Quilcene National Fish Hatchery lacked a federal wastewater discharge was settled last month when the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed to issue a permit and reimburse the group's court costs.

Deer Lagoon Estuary Restoration Project

Wild Fish Conservancy takes on an exciting new habitat restoration project on Whidbey Island.

Clayoquot Sound Research Project in the News

Wild Fish Conservancy's Clayoquot Sound, B.C. research project is getting press throughout the Pacific Northwest. Watch the latest video.

Triumphant Victoria Finale for Salmon Migration

5,000+ turned out in Victoria for the climactic finish of the "Get Out Migration" for wild salmon.

Federal Agencies Must Reconsider Net-pens’ Effects On Puget Sound

Apr 29, 2010

In an April 28 ruling, the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled in favor of Wild Fish Conservancy in a lawsuit the organization brought against the NOAA Fisheries Service and the US Environmental Protection Agency in 2008.

Federal Agencies Must Use Best Available Science

Apr 29, 2010

 

Hitting the Streets to Save Wild Salmon

World-renowned B.C. research biologist and activist Alexandra Morton is taking the fight to save wild salmon to the streets, literally.

Water typing in the Tacoma News Tribune

Wild Fish Conservancy Director of Science and Research (Ecology), Jamie Glasgow was recently published by the Tacoma New Tribune with an article regarding the need for water typing in Puget Sound.

WILD FISH CONSERVANCY SUPPORTS ESA LISTING FOR PUGET SOUND STEELHEAD

May 07, 2007

A Statement From WFC Executive Director Kurt Beardslee

Take the Washington Saltwater Angler Survey

If you fish recreationally in Washington State's marine water, your help is needed.

WFC Submits Comments on Clean Water Act Permits for Salmon Farms in Puget Sound

Open net pen Atlantic salmon farming imposes a serious threat to the unique balance of Puget Sound.

CONSERVATIONISTS FILE SUIT OVER PUGET SOUND SALMON HARVEST

Oct 10, 2006

Washington Trout Challenges Current Salmon-Harvest Management

SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT PERMIT FOR PROPOSED SEWAGE PLANT APPEALED

Mar 16, 2006

Duvall, WA

Washington Trout Challenges Treated-Sewage Discharge Into Important Salmon Habitat

Wild Fish Conservancy Staff Visits Broughton Archipelago

 

Wild Fish Conservancy returns from Broughton Archipelago

Wild Fish Conservancy employees Kurt Beardslee and Micah Wait return from Broughton Archipelago for aquaculture meeting hosted by Alexandra Morton of the Raincoast Research Society.