Posts by Mark Sherwood

Congressman Uses Falsehoods to Urge Reopening Kalmiopsis and Wild Rivers Coast for Strip Mining

For immediate release Contacts: Dave Lacey, Hunter Creek River Steward & Oregon South Coast Tours, 541-373-0487, dave@southcoasttours.net Susan Jane Brown, Western Environmental Law Center,...

... It is our ambition to do more to protect this special fishery

Dear Erik Moberly, Thank you for your letter and response to our request for sport fishing regulation changes on the Metolius River. I am pleased with current conservation-based fishing...

A Conversation with the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission

On Friday, September 15th in Welches, Oregon the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission met to discuss several items important to fisheries conservationists throughout the state. First, the wild...

The Fixed Gear Fix

Can Pound Nets Save Wild Fish and Commercial Fisheries on the Columbia? A bleak future for the wild salmon and steelhead of the Columbia River is also a bleak future for the tribal and commercial...

Redd It September 2017

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Say No To Atlantic Salmon Farming in Puget Sound

Facts are still forthcoming on Monday's accidental release of up to 305,000 farmed Atlantic salmon from a net pen into Puget Sound near Cypress Island, WA. Nevertheless, the threat from these...

Redd It August 2017

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Support Conservation in Your Homewaters

North Creek Campaign from Native Fish Society on Vimeo. With your help we can increase the health and abundance of wild salmon, steelhead, trout and Lamprey on Oregon's central coast. The...

Redd It July 2017

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Governor Brown Signs Suction Dredge Mining Reform Bill to Protect Oregon Rivers

Today, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed the Suction Dredge Reform Bill (SB 3) legislation which establishes a permanent framework to manage in-stream motorized mining across Oregon. The bill...

Save the Bs, Save the Columbia

Save the Bs, Save the Columbia Of the Columbia River's many runs of salmon and steelhead, there are particular fish species whose lives are so difficult and complex that they magnify the...

Redd It June 2017

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Bulkley River Catch and Release Study Update

Bulkley River Catch and Release Study Update Below is a preliminary update focused on the physiology and tracking elements of the Bulkley River steelhead catch and release study that Native Fish...

We Are One: The Salmon Banner Project

We Are One: The Salmon Banner Project In a year when many of the wild salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest are in dire condition, there is no better time to remind one another that the future of...

Redd It May 2017

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Redd It April 2017

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The Sandy Case & Its Ripple Effect

In 2010, Native Fish Society began a grassroots campaign, Save Sandy Salmon, spearheaded by River Steward Spencer Miles. This led to a lawsuit two years later, Native Fish Society v. National...

What's Not For Dinner | Wild Steelhead

March 23, 2017 Julie Packard Executive Director Monterey Bay Aquarium 886 Cannery Row Monterey, CA 93940 Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly Seafood Watch 886 Cannery Row Monterey, CA 93940 Re:...