HOOD CANAL — Severely low oxygen levels in southern Hood Canal have created conditions that could lead to a massive fish kill, experts say. The trigger would be strong winds out of the south, which ...
PORT GAMBLE, Wash. — About 50% of young steelhead trout die while trying to navigate their way through the Hood Canal Bridge, but a new piece of equipment, installed Monday, could alleviate that. The ...
For years, scientists and researchers pointed to nutrients from septic systems as a leading cause of the massive fish kills that repeatedly wiped out sculpins, rockfish, perch, sea stars and dozens of ...
BREMERTON – Hood Canal researchers are thrilled that a major fish kill did not occur this year – and not just for the sake of the fish. Oceanographer Jan Newton and numerous other scientists are going ...
HOODSPORT, Washington -- Marine life is struggling to survive in the oxygen-starved waters of Hood Canal. Hundreds of rockfish hovered in shallow water near shore this weekend, listlessly crowded ...
PARKDALE -- As salmon streams go, Hood River faces some unique challenges: glacial gullywashers from Mount Hood, heavy irrigation withdrawals for Oregon's top fruit orchards and a once hardy ...
SEABECK — Josh Frederick hops out of an idling state Department of Fish and Wildlife motorboat and begins scooping beach gravel into bag labeled with his precise location on Hood Canal. He pulls out a ...
Bill White at Fish in the Hood. Photograph by Scott Suchman. Talk to someone who has been to Fish in the Hood—also known as Bill’s Seafood Kitchen—and you may encounter an evangelist. One customer ...
SEATTLE – State Department of Fish and Wildlife officials are alarmed at the third major fish kill in the Puget Sound’s Hood Canal in five years. The canal also had major fish kills in 2002 and 2003. ...