Colder ocean should be boost to salmon survival The Columbia Basin Bulletin August 13, 2010 An already chilled northeast Pacific Ocean and rapidly cooling equatorial sea surface temperatures likel...

Census of marine life publishes historic roll call ScienceDaily August 3, 2010 Representing the most comprehensive and authoritative answer yet to one of humanity's most ancient questions -- "what...

Australia, Japan top global ocean diversity list VOA News By Phil Mercer August 3, 2010 A survey of global marine species has identified Australian and Japanese waters as the most diverse on Earth...

Ocean acidification makes oceans smell funny Discovery News By Jessica Marshall August 2, 2010 As rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide create more acidic oceans, their waters may start to ...

Oysters a sign of trouble from Puget Sound acidity The Seattle Times By Craig Welch July 31, 2010 Inside the burbling tubs of the Taylor Shellfish hatchery here, oysters are incubating once again....

Oceans in peril: primed for mass extinction? Live Science By Wynne Parry July 29, 2010 One hundred days ago Thursday, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. As pr...

Warmest June ever, NOAA reports CNN July 15, 2010 Some like it hot. If you are part of that group, you'll welcome the news Thursday from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: The ...

Warming waters exacerbate dwindling fisheries Scientific American By Doug Struck July 13, 2010 Pete Libra is frustrated. The 40-year-old cod fisherman sees lots of fish in the ocean, and he wants ...

Big salmon, steelhead runs amaze biologists The News Tribune By Kevin McCullen July 11, 2010 Numbers of salmon and steelhead returning up the Columbia River are well above the 10-year average agai...

Carbon dioxide in ocean could be confusing fish USA Today By Melanie Eversley July 7, 2010 Rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean may be confusing coral reef fish and sending them swimming towa...

Scientists studying deep-sea coral off Calif coast The San Francisco Chronicle June 21, 2010 Scientists are looking for coral reefs off the coast of Marin County to help understand the effects of ...

The salmon puzzle The Times-Standard By John Driscoll April 19, 2010 There are dozens of pieces to a salmon season. For a salmon season to be good, however, those things must fit together like a j...

Dead whales sign of ocean distress Examiner By Jean Williams April 17, 2010 According to biologists, it is not unusual to lose some whales during the spring migration season. They say there shoul...

Oceans' saltiness reaching extreme Discovery News By Larry O'Hanlon April 15, 2010 The supercharging of Earth's water cycle by global warming is already making some parts of Earth's oceans much sa...

Tuna fishers blame El Niño for low catch FIS By Natalia Real April 9, 2010 Fishers in the southern Philippines are blaming the El Niño weather phenomenon and its warming effects on the ocean's t...

Humboldt squid seem to be thriving Scientific American By Katherine Harmon April 8, 2010 Although many of the Pacific Ocean's big species are floundering, one large creature of the deep seems to b...

2010 chinook salmon forecast optimistic FIS March 15, 2010 There will at least be limited ocean chinook salmon fishing this year, according to the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC). This w...

More salmon coming back: good for fish and farms? Sierra To The Sea March 15, 2010 Who gets the blame for a declining salmon population off the California coast? A blog by fishery advocate Dick Po...

Better salmon year expected The Register-Guard March 12, 2010 SACRAMENTO - California's chinook salmon fishery is likely to be opened this year after two straight closed fishing seasons - but with...

Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists Tehran Times March 9, 2010 Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be a...

El Nino may affect West Coast fisheries United Press International March 8, 2010 U.S. scientists say better satellite tracking shows the El Nino affecting the northern Pacific Ocean is reducing ma...

El Nino showing signs of reducing marine life The Columbia Basin Bulletin March 5, 2010 The ongoing El Niño of 2010 is affecting north Pacific Ocean ecosystems in ways that could affect the West ...

Deep-ocean low-oxygen zones spreading Scientific American By Michael Tennesen February 23, 2010 A plague of oxygen-deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up over the continental shelves o...

Coho ocean abundance at only 37% of last year's run The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 12, 2010 The ocean abundance of Columbia River coho is expected to be 389,500 fish this year, or about 37 p...

Feds: Calif. returning chinook salmon a record low San Francisco Chronicle By Jason Dearen February 12, 2010 Members of the public will have a chance to voice their views on what is expected to be...

Ocean conditions in 2009 worsen for salmon in Calif. The Columbia Basin Bulletin January 22, 2010 Living-feeding conditions for young salmon took a turn for the worst in that 600-mile wide swath o...

Scientists to research possible links in Alaska fisheries News Miner January 15, 2010 The Federal Subsistence Board has approved research to look for possible links between climate change and fish...

Scientists fish for fresh clues in a deep mystery The Age By Jo Chandler January 11, 2010 DURING the two-week voyage from Hobart to the Antarctic ice at Casey station, a team of biologists aboard ...

Frigid temperatures take toll on marine life JDNews By Jannette Pippin January 9, 2010 Marine animals have not been immune to the bitter cold that continues to grip the region. As water temperat...

Researchers to study ocean health Simon Fraser University January 7, 2010 The Royal Society of Canada has appointed 10 scientists-two of them from SFU-to an independent panel charged with studying...

Melting glaciers nourishing oceans with ancient carbon National Geographic News By Christine Dell'Amore December 30, 2009 Alaska's marine animals have an unexpected nutrient in their diets: ancien...

San Francisco Pier 39 sea lions found in Oregon? Examiner By Valeria Weber January 2, 2010 The mystery of the missing sea lions at San Francisco's Pier 39 may have been solved. One of the most pop...

Tough, strange year for marine life along California The Olympian By Megha Satyanarayana January 2, 2010 The recent exodus of a large California sea lion colony at Pier 39 in San Francisco was vis...

Climate change played key role in sockeye collapse The Canadian Press By Tamsyn Burgmann Devember 10, 2009 VANCOUVER, B.C. - Food-poor, predator-rich ocean waters caused by climate change likely p...

Study looks at sustainable salmon production The Columbia Basin Bulletin November 25, 2009 Popular thinking about how to improve food systems for the better often misses the point, according to th...

Thousands of strange sea creatures discovered Live Science By Charles Q. Choi November 22, 2009 The deep sea is teeming with thousands of species that have never known sunlight, explorers now say....

NOAA: El Nino on the way Capital Press By Mattew Weaver October 22, 2009 Meteorologists anticipate a moderate El Niño will bring drier winter weather to the Pacific Northwest and wetter weather t...

Ocean science goes deep Nature News By Daniel Cressey October 14, 2009 Fuelled by more than $100 million from the US economic stimulus package, an unprecedented network of underwater surveillance ...

Oregon dead zone blamed on climate change Environment News Service October 8, 2009 Climate change is likely responsible for the formation of a large dead zone that has formed off the coast of Oreg...

New underwater robot named Beagle American Fisheries Scociety By Gus Rassam September 25, 2009 The Nature Conservancy announced today the winner of a national online competition to help name its n...

World's oceans warmest on record this summer MSNBC News September 18, 2009 WASHINGTON - Sea-surface temperatures worldwide have been the hottest on record over the last three months, according to ...

OSU will help coordinate global ocean observation The Oregonian By Carrie Sturrock September 08, 2009 The health of the world's oceans is in the news these days as scientists try to better underst...

Bodega Bay scientists weigh impact of ocean acid The Press Democrat By Bob Norberg September 6, 2009 The danger from increasing levels of acid in the ocean, which could devastate California's shel...

Delta levee projects must now prepare for rising sea The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser August 31, 2009 Levee projects in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will have to account for rising sea levels...

Hotter water linked to poor sockeye returns Straight.com By Carlito Pablo August 27, 2009 A UBC fisheries expert's warning from the 1990s now sounds prophetic with this summer's poor returns of Fr...

Will El Niño deliver deluge? The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler August 27, 2009 One San Joaquin County water official said he's "fairly confident" California will avoid a fourth consecutive dry...

How will warmer oceans affect sea life? Scientific American By David Biello August 25, 2009 This June, the world's oceans reached 17 degrees Celsius, their highest average temperature since record...

June's record ocean warmth worries fishermen McClatchy By Brendan Doyle August 19, 2009 WASHINGTON - Ocean surface temperatures around the world were the warmest on record for the month of June, a...

OSU to create detailed maps of Oregon coast seabed The Columbia Basin Bulletin August 14, 2009 Surveyors and scientists from NOAA's Office of Coast Survey and Oregon State University over the next...

Fish and Game to vote on marine reserve network The San Francisco Chronicle August 5, 2009 The world's oceans seem in an unstoppable slide: polluted, overfished and roiled by climate change. But C...

Marine robot to explore ocean's depths Sideways News August 4, 2009 Environmental group Nature Conservancy is using a new underwater robot to investigate areas off the Californian coast that are b...

Researchers set sail for the pacific garbage patch San Jose Mercury News By Paul Rogers August 3, 2009 Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollut...

West coast groundfish fishery fares well in review OPB News By Tom Banse August 3, 2009 Twenty-one scientists on five continents reevaluated a projected collapse of ocean seafood fishing globally....

Efforts to rebuild fisheries reaping benefits The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 31, 2009 An international team of scientists with divergent views on ocean ecosystems has found that efforts to rebui...

Southern California pins rain hopes on fickle El Nino Contra Costa Times By Zeke Barlow July 25. 2009 Bill Patzert calls it the "great wet hope." "You say `El Nino' and everyone's eyes light up,...

Global ocean surface temperature warmest on record NOAA July 17, 2009 The world's ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for June, breaking the previous high mark set in 2005, accordi...

Warning on trout hatcheries could force changes San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite July 5, 2009 Hatchery-raised steelhead trout pass on genetic defects that hamper survival of even their wil...

Report details west coast research needs The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 26, 2009 The West Coast critically needs more research about fisheries, ocean health, coastal hazards and climate change -...

El Nino could signal drought's end North County Times By Dave Downey June 24, 2009 Just as residents of San Diego and Riverside counties start adjusting to life with lawn-watering restrictions, th...

Colder ocean water was good for salmon last year The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa June 23, 2009 Like most of the waters off the West Coast, the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia was super salmon-f...

Is ocean's acidity killing sea life? Seattle Times By Craig Welch June 21, 2009 The collapse began rather unspectacularly. In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this tree-line...

Alaska's salmon scarce as ocean currents shift The Anchorage Daily News By Craig Medred June 20, 2009 A second straight year of weak king salmon returns around the rim of the Gulf of Alaska has st...

Regional impacts of global climate change The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 19, 2009 Climate change is already having visible impacts in the United States, and choices made now will determine the s...

Sick sea lions present a mystery The San Francisco Chronicle By Jane Kay June 19, 2009 Fluctuating ocean conditions may be depleting the food supply of young sea lions that are turning up skinny a...

Ocean life of ages past boggle modern imagination Science Daily May 25, 2009 Before oil hunters in the early 1800s harpooned whales by the score, the ocean around New Zealand teemed with about 27,...

Migrating blue whales rediscover 'forgotten' waters New Scientist By Andy Coghlan May 12, 2009 Blue whales have begun reappearing in Pacific waters off the coast of Canada and Alaska for the first...

'Super reefs' fend off climate change, study says Science Daily April 27, 2009 The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today a study showing that some coral reefs off East Africa are unusually...

Record coho season expected South Lincoln County News April 14, 2009 Sport anglers can look forward to a banner year of ocean coho salmon fishing under final season recommendations made by the Pac...

Carbonated oceans Science Daily March 27, 2009 Like a sinkful of hard water deposits suddenly doused with vinegar, the shells of tiny marine snails in Victoria Fabry's test tanks don't stand a cha...

Ocean 'indicators' help develop forecasts The Columbia Basin Bulletin March 20, 2009 All of the signs -- called ocean indicators -- point toward swelled returns to the Columbia River basin in 2010...

Sacramento River's chinook face double whammy The San Francisco Chronicle By Jane Kay March 19, 2009 Sacramento River's prized chinook salmon suffered a one-two punch from poor conditions in the o...

Ocean caused Sacramento River salmon decline The Press Democrat By Robert Digitale March 18, 2009 The decline of Sacramento River salmon, which has prompted a proposed fishing ban for a second str...

Salmon booms and busts tough to change The San Francisco Chronicle By Jeff Barnard March 18, 2009 Federal fisheries biologists say the 2008 collapse of salmon returning to California's Sacramento ...

West coast toxic algae threat Seattle Post-Intelligencer February 14, 2009 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Scientists and fishery managers are planning a new West Coast monitoring network for detecting and fore...

Study: High winds could cause dead ocean zones The Herald By Suzanne Bohan January 11, 2009 California's winds have grown in strength in the past 30 years. The specter of an ocean floor littere...

Will Climate Change Bring Stronger Coastal Winds, More Upwelling Off NW Coast? The Columbia Basin Bulletin January 9, 2009 Future increases in wind strength along the California coast may have far...

Bush to Protect Vast New Pacific Tracts The New York Times By John M. Broder January 5, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Bush will designate vast tracts of American-controlled Pacific Ocean islands, re...

Many delta islands may be lost The San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito January 2, 2009 Two decades ago, water breached a levee on Tyler Island, 8,800 acres along the northeastern edge of the Sac...

Agencies' report warns of faster climate change Los Angeles Times By Juliet Eilperin December 26, 2008 Reporting from Washington -- The United States faces the possibility of much more rapid cli...

Is this picture in danger of disappearing? The Daily Astorian By Michael Burkett December 26, 2008 The EPA warns that climate change threatens Oregon's cold-water fish populations Imagining Cali...

Sierra Warming: Later snow, earlier melt: High anxiety Sacramento Bee By Tom Knudson December 26, 2008 LAKE TAHOE - Finally, snow. After weeks of waiting, mountain residents awoke to their first...

Ocean conditions in Oregon among best for fish in 50 years The Los Angeles Times By Kelly Burgess December 19, 2008 Ocean conditions for many fish species in the Pacific Northwest, including chino...

Near-Shore Survey Suggests 2008 Ocean Conditions For Fish One Of The Best On Record The Columbia Basin Bulletin December 19, 2008 Ocean conditions during 2008 for many fish species in the Pacific ...

Healthy salmon runs on other rivers raise questions about the Sacramento The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling December 14, 2008 Dismal salmon returns on the Sacramento River in recent years hav...

Ocean Acidity Growing Faster Than Once Thought, Impacts Marine Food Webs Columbia Basin Bulletin December 5, 2008 University of Chicago scientists have documented that the ocean is growing more ac...

Chinook Salmon's Last Meal? Scienceline By Lynne Peeples November 7, 2008 A cooler ocean is feeding hungry salmon, but their ultimate survival remains uncertain. Young Chinook salmon entering th...

This Year's Colder Ocean Conditions Off NW Coast Good News For Salmon Growth The Columbian Basin Bulletin September 12, 2008 The physical and biological ocean conditions that greeted young salmon ...

Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy Of Climate Change Computer Models The Columbia Basin Bulletin September 12, 2008 An analysis of the global carbon cycle and climate for a 70,000-year period in th...

Cold water rings dinner bell for West Coast salmon The Associated Press By Jeff Barnard September 10, 2008 A federal oceanographer says a flip-flop in atmospheric conditions is creating a feast fo...

Ocean conditions signal West Coast salmon rebound Associated Press By Jeff Barnard September 9, 2008 NEWPORT, Ore. - A federal oceanographer says changing ocean conditions are generating a feast f...

FAO Members To Improve On Deep-Sea Fishing The Chronicle September 5, 2008 Member countries of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have adopted international guidelines aime...

Warmer World May Mean Less Fish The Earth Institute at Columbia University By Alex Fischer February 22, 2008 MONACO/NAIROBI, 22 February 2008---Climate change is emerging as the latest
threat to ...

U.N. says world fisheries face collapse Reuters February 22, 2008 MONACO (Reuters) - A deadly combination of climate change, over-fishing and pollution could cause the collapse of commercial fish s...

Global warming might cause Antarctic invasion 70 South By Kris Molle February 22, 2008 With the waters around Antarctica changing, due to global warming, scientists think it possible that there wil...

Climate change threatens world's fish stocks, UN group finds The Earth Times By DPA February 22, 2008 Monaco - The rising emissions of greenhouse gases and the resultant climate change are adding t...

Stuart sockeye headed to extinction The Vancouver Sun By Scott Simpson February 20, 2008 VANCOUVER - Climate change is pushing two prized Fraser River sockeye salmon populations towards extinction...

It's cold outside, but Lake Superior is getting warmer MinnPost By Ron Way February 20, 2008 DULUTH - Lake Superior is undergoing sudden increases in its water temperatures and dramatic declines i...

Devastation of Trawling Visible from Space Live Science By Andrea Thompson February 20, 2008  Bottom trawling for fish stirs up billowing plumes of sediment that can be seen from space and destro...

Scientists blame ocean dead zones on climate change San Francisco Chronicle By Kenneth Weiss February 20, 2008 Peering into the murky depths, Jane Lubchenco searched for sea life, but all she saw w...

Study Finds Humans' Effect on Oceans Comprehensive Washington Post By Juliet Eilperin February 15, 2008 Human activities are affecting every square mile of the world's oceans, according to a study ...