SAFS professors Ray Hilborn and Tom Quinn and SAFS affiliate professor Fred Utter were selected as part of the first group of Fellows named in the American Fisheries Society (AFS). Fellows are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the diverse field of aquatic and fishery sciences. 

SAFS graduate student Marissa Jones’s recently published study compares hatchery and wild steelhead spawn timing and survival in Willapa river. 

Recent SAFS alumna Susan Harris spent 10 weeks at UW’s Friday Harbor Labs on San Juan island studying zoology and botany. UW Today featured a profile on Susan’s experience. 

A warm water mass in the Pacific Ocean is impacting forage species and stirring up more conversations about the need for ecosystem-based fisheries management. SAFS Professor Tim Essington weighs in. 

A new study, lead by SAFS Prof. Tim Essington and published on April 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “implicates fishing in the collapse of forage fish stocks and recommends risk-based management tools that would track a fishery’s numbers and suspend fishing when necessary.” Read the full story on UW Today >> 

Prof. Julian Olden and SAFS research scientist Lauren Kuehne published an opinion article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, titled Lay Summaries needed to enhance science communication. This piece promotes the requirement and publication of lay summaries with peer-reviewed research articles.

Several in the SAFS community have been working on a management strategy evaluation for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. Findings were presented to the Alaska Board of Fish resulting in changes to seasonal management targets, reported by The Bristol Bay Times.
Last week the Department of Fish and Game adopted a wider range with raised upper ends for sockeye escapement goals in most Bristol Bay rivers. 

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Citing climate change, Obama fences in huge Pacific area after wheeling and …Fox NewsIndeed, the new preserve will have “absolutely no impact” on acid levels in the ocean, says Ray Hilborn, a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington and a renowned authority on global fish populations. Nor …

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Scary lessons for Bristol Bay from recent B.C. mine-waste accidentCrosscutDaniel Schindler, PhD, is a professor and the Harriet Bullitt Endowed Chair of Conservation in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. Jack Stanford, PhD, is is the Jessie M. Bierman Professor of Ecology …

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