en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Salmon headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 Canada will stage a judicial inquiry into the collapse of sockeye salmon runs on the Fraser River, which have been in a two-decade decline and hit a 50-year low in summer 2009. It has prompted concerns that sockeye are heading for a population failure on the scale of the collapse of Atlantic cod. http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Ottawa+plans+inquiry+into+disappearance+sockeye/2188687/story.html Environment Food & Farms Salmon Water British Columbia 11/06/2009 Vancouver Sun On a few islands in western Canada, white 'spirit bears' walk the woods. Now scientists have discovered why these striking animals, a race of black bear, survive. White bears are less visible to fish than their black counterparts, making them 30% more efficient at capturing salmon in the islands' rivers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8344000/8344367.stm Environment Salmon Wildlife British Columbia 11/06/2009 BBC News The Obama administration and the region’s federal dam managers are pinning their hopes to the scientific reputation of Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a marine ecologist from Oregon State University. And it’s a good call. http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2009/11/05/rockybarker/scientist_courtroom Energy Environment Policy Salmon Water US Northwest 11/05/2009 Idaho Statesman The first cradle-to-grave analysis of the environmental impact of salmon farms has found that in some ways they're less harmful than, say, raising beef cattle -- but that there is plenty of room for improvement. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18110-salmons-ecological-finprint-measured.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news Food & Farms Salmon British Columbia 11/04/2009 New Scientist Tacoma Power will receive $4.7 million in federal stimulus money to build a new power plant at the lower Cushman Dam on the North Fork of the Skokomish River. http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/nov/04/federal-grant-supports-power-fish-project-on/?partner=RSS Energy Salmon Washington 11/04/2009 Kitsap Sun Riding a late-breaking wave of liberal support, Dow Constantine - a pro-abortion-rights, pro-labor, pro-transit Democrat - handily defeated Susan Hutchison on Tuesday in a rancorous race for King County executive. Now he has to clean up the county's budget, which is projected to face a $110 million shortfall over the next two years. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010196404_elexkingexec04m.html Economy Environment Food & Farms Human Health Pollution & Toxics Salmon Sprawl & Transportation Washington 11/04/2009 Seattle Times The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council claimed a legal victory Tuesday after the BC Supreme Court affirmed the right of aboriginals to sell the seafood they harvest. The court gave the aboriginal people of the west coast of Vancouver Island the right to harvest and sell fish and other seafood in their territory, although the right is not unrestricted. http://www.vancouversun.com/natives+claim+victory+court+ruling+commercial+fisheries/2179770/story.html Environment Food & Farms Salmon Water Wildlife British Columbia 11/03/2009 Vancouver Sun British Columbia is decades behind other North American jurisdictions when it comes to confronting the impacts that hydroelectric development may have on the environment, a green energy conference heard Tuesday in Vancouver. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=eed42880-f286-4d4e-9f57-ee751a98e415&k=10964 Climate Energy Environment Salmon Water Wildlife British Columbia 11/04/2009 Vancouver Sun Overfishing erodes future prosperity by destroying today a resource that could yield benefits indefinitely. Yet it is subsidised by billions of taxpayer dollars, euros and yen. Now, with fuel subsidies on the table at Copenhagen, a new chance to halt this insanity has emerged in the unlikely form of climate-change negotiations. http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14788199&fsrc=rss Climate Energy Food & Farms Policy Salmon 11/03/2009 The Economist