The Conservation Cafe Podcast episode five, Lost to Found: How the Catch More Crab campaign in Puget Sound, WA is saving crabs and filling crab pots, just aired and features a super shout-out to NRC and Kyle Antonelis on efforts to improve policy for the recreational...

Madison Heller-Shipley of NRC recently had her thesis work, a collaborative project with NOAA, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the Alaska crab industry, and the University of Washington approved for publication. The State of Alaska used the work to update the...

Greg Ruggerone presented a talk titled: Bottom-up and Top-down Processes Drive the Survival and Abundance of Pacific Salmon, at the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission in late May. This work was featured in the Columbia Basin newsletter, Clearing Up, in the...

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, lost,...

NRC partner Greg Ruggerone and co-authors from University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska Department of Fish and Game recently published “Unprecedented biennial pattern of birth and mortality in an endangered apex predator, the southern resident killer whale, in the...

NRC partners Kyle Antonelis, James Selleck, and Joan Drinkwin recently published “Bycatch of rockfish in spot prawn traps and estimated magnitude of trap loss in Washington waters of the Salish Sea,” in the journal Fisheries Research. The article can be accessed here:...

Natural Resources Consultants was recently awarded a $165,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for the survey and removal of derelict fishing nets from areas of historic derelict net accumulations in Washington waters of the Salish Sea. This...

Is it possible that there are too many salmon in the Pacific Ocean? Is high salmon abundance causing reduced growth and lower survival of some salmon populations? The idea of too many salmon may seem preposterous for many people that frequently hear about declining...

Dr. Greg Ruggerone co-authored a recent publication in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science: Volcanic ash deposition, eelgrass beds, and inshore habitat loss from the 1920s to the 1990s at Chignik, Alaska. Find the free, online version of this paper...

Joan Drinkwin prepared a derelict fishing gear location guidance document for the Global Ghost Gear Initiative. This document contains a general overview of the methodologies used globally to locate lost, abandoned and discarded fishing gear in the marine environment....