Commercial fishing for salmon is set to resume along the California coast for the first time since 2022. After a three-year shutdown, regulators plan to allow a fishing season with strict limits. I spoke with people who fish for a living about what it means: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Commercial salmon fishing set to resume along California coast after 3-year shutdown

Commercial salmon fishing is set to resume along the California coast this spring for the first time since 2022. Fishery regulators plan to allow a fishing season with strict catch limits.

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California WaterBlog ran a story on our paper (Emily Chen lead) on juvenile life history differences between natural- and hatchery-origin winter Chinook californiawaterblog.com/2026/03/29/l...

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

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Read the full story here -> aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Thanks to the the International Associated Laboratory "MacLife" for funding! CC @matbuoro.bsky.social @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social

“To recognize rivers as life-giving forces & as rights-bearing presences is a profound & hopeful position. It offers philosophical grounds for resistance to the present administration’s…drive to gut environmental regulation & reduce the natural world to dollar value” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Opinion | Trump’s War on Nature Is Up Against a Powerful New Resistance Movement

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“It’s proven difficult to track the drift of eggs, baby fish, and sometimes adults over long distances...” The same is true in freshwater and greatly limits our understanding of why fish populations fluctuate as they do

Dr. Dawn Wright@deepseadawn.bsky.social · last yr.

Where do fish go and why? For many species, nobody knows www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🦑 🌊

The undersea current quickly changed from horizontal to vertical. The whales rose to the surface all at once. What in the world happened at the surface of the sea...? #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls

This threat represents an immeasurable loss to community-driven research and to the training pipeline for the next generation of collaborative conservation leaders

Nicolas Gonzalez@nicosgonzalez.bsky.social · last yr.

USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week www.hcn.org/articles/usg... via @highcountrynews.org

Reminder that comments on the Endangered Species Act's recission of the "harm" definition are due TODAY! esa.org/esablog/2025...

NOAA senior scientists in Seattle depart amid Trump cuts www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

NOAA senior scientists in Seattle depart amid Trump cuts

Some senior scientists at a federal research center in Seattle are calling it quits after leading some of the region's most important scientific breakthroughs.

seattletimes.com

At my final exam today, a student told me that she is the third (!) sister in her family to take my Fish Ecology class! Her sisters recommended it 😭

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Incredible love story

Dr. Solomon David@solomonrdavid.bsky.social · last yr.

PART THREE (of Three) bsky.app/profile/solo...

Science isn’t like tap water, you can’t just turn it on and off. It’s like an oyster: it builds over time until it eventually creates pearls. This sort of senseless destruction is going to haunt us for a long time.

Super neat study showing stream-swapping by coho salmon! Expands our view of juvenile rearing habitat to include multiple drainages esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta‐nurseries that connect rivers via the sea

Conventionally, juvenile salmonids are thought to migrate unidirectionally from freshwater systems to marine systems and therefore only inhabit natal drainages. Although scattered evidence suggests j....

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Coast Guard rescue missions failing after running into unexpected currents. Surprise atmospheric river storms. Seafood contaminated by unseen algal blooms. CA scientists fear these scenarios, and more, are possible under the Trump admin’s recommendation to reduce NOAA’s budget by $1.7B. Gift link:

Surprise atmospheric rivers, toxic seafood: How NOAA cuts could impact California

California research institutions could lose access to millions of dollars, which could impact atmospheric river forecasts and Coast Guard rescues.

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When the habitats that species rely on are destroyed, the species will disappear. Someday, and I hope not too late, we’ll understand that when we lose a species, we lose so much more. Their fate is intertwined with our own. www.hcn.org/articles/tru...

Trump administration plans Endangered Species Act rollback - High Country News

Revisions to the law center on ‘harm,’ which would allow far more mining, drilling and other development that threatens critical habitat.

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To new Bluesky peeps: I'm currently working on another book, on the organisms nearest my heart. It's fundamentally about fish as engineers—both of ecosystems & human affairs—and how we revitalize their roles in our waterscapes & lives. If this aligns with your interests & expertise, cast me a line!

Wrecked by another note from a colleague at NOAA-Fisheries announcing their premature retirement (they are coming daily now). I weep for my colleagues and friends, for the fish they dedicated their lives to, and for the people who will be most impacted by these actions

“It was a reminder of the importance of conserving diversity within populations to give these [salmon] populations options in the face of variable and extreme conditions,” Stephanie Carlson @fishteph.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social told @sfgate.com

SFGATE@sfgate.com · last yr.

A new UC Berkeley study reveals how one dry winter decimated salmon and trout populations across Northern California — and how they made a comeback. 📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

Major budget cuts proposed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

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🧪 are you a trans entomologist? arachnologist? parasitologist? malacologist? carcinologist? diplopodologist? vermeologist? 🐛🐜🪱🦗🕷️🦀 if you a trans scientist studying any kind of bug or crawling/slithering invertebrate that is existentially bug-like, I would love to interview you for a project!

"eliminate all funding for [NOAA] climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes" "ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites" "closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"

Paul Voosen@voosen.me · last yr.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

A new UC Berkeley study reveals how one dry winter decimated salmon and trout populations across Northern California — and how they made a comeback. 📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

A study of the 2012–2016 California drought chronicles how low river flows during the breeding season caused Chinook salmon to shift downriver and caused steelhead and coho salmon to fail to breed entirely in some tributaries and watersheds. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

if you were laid off from NWS or NOAA today and you'd like to talk about your experience with a reporter, please email me: simbler at defector dot com. 🧪

Coho are typically thought to rear in their natal habitat for a year before migrating to sea. We found that many fish (44%) leave their natal habitat early and spend several months rearing in the lower portion of the creek before emigrating. (3/8)

Delighted to share our new paper in Ecology Letters: Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Dynamics but is Threatened by Drought. With @fishteph.bsky.social, Ted Grantham, and Mariska Obedzinski. #rivers #fishes #salmon 🧪🐟 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Variation in Salmon Migration Phenology Bolsters Population Stability but Is Threatened by Drought

We show that intrapopulation variation in juvenile movement and rearing strategies enhances population stability in endangered coho salmon near their southern range limit. However, variation in reari...

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A 12-year-long study led by @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and @caseagrant.bsky.social researchers finds that the alternative life histories of coho salmon have made their populations more stable. Read more at the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship site. nature.berkeley.edu/stewardship/...

Diversity in Coho Salmon Could Be Key to Species Survival

The Russian River estuary just downstream of the confluence with Willow Creek. New research published today in Ecology Letters from the Stone Center found that coho salmon, one of five Pacific salmon...

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