by Joan Drinkwin | Sep 4, 2024 | News, Publications
Natural Resources Consultants and Abt Associates partnered to write the recently released Report to Congress: Sources and Impacts of Derelict Fishing Gear. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Debris Program provided support to develop the...
by Joan Drinkwin | Apr 29, 2024 | News, Publications
Hot off the presses, the 2024 Puget Sound Lost Shellfish Pot Prevention Plan articulates goals, strategies, and specific actions needed to prevent the accumulation of and minimize the harm caused by lost shellfish pots in Puget Sound. Natural Resources Consultants...
by Joan Drinkwin | Nov 22, 2023 | News, Publications
NRC partner Greg Ruggerone is primary author on a seminal publication in Marine Ecology Progress Series documenting the effects of top-down forcing by pink salmon and other ocean factors in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. Predation by pink salmon can result in...
by Joan Drinkwin | Mar 23, 2023 | News
NRC partnered with Canadian diving companies COJO Diving and Titan Maritime to host a specialty ALDFG diver retrieval workshop in Nova Scotia in April 2023. With funding from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the workshop was conducted at the RelyOn Nutec...
by Joan Drinkwin | Jul 9, 2020 | News
NRC was awarded funding from Canada’s Sustainable Fisheries Solutions & Retrieval Support Contribution Program, or Ghost Gear Fund. NRC will conduct five activities designed to create a baseline of capacity in British Columbia to locate and remove abandoned,...