fish

How much fish is healthy? Wash. tribes push for updated standard

Bellamy Pailthorp — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:41:07 +0000

How much fish should you eat? The state Department of Health recommends two meals of fish a week. But the Department of Ecology assumes people eat far less, about the equivalent of one meal per month.

That’s because it uses those assumptions to calculate how much water pollution can be legally allowed in Washington—pollution that ends up in the fish we eat.

How salmon find their way back home to spawn

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:23:41 +0000

Before they end up filleted and sautéed on your dinner plate, salmon lead some pretty extraordinary, globe-trotting lives.

After hatching in a freshwater stream, young salmon make a break for the ocean, where they hang out for years, covering thousands of miles before deciding its time to settle down and lay eggs in their natal stream.

So how do these fish find their way back to their home river?

According to one theory, it's all about magnetism.

Authorities seek tougher penalties for false labeling of fish

Tom Banse — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:49:00 +0000

OLYMPIA, Wash. - When you order that special filet at a restaurant or store, you're often going on trust that the fish actually is what the menu or label says it is.

Ocean's future: 'Goodbye big fish, hello small fish'

Tom Banse — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:05:41 +0000

In Greek mythology, the original god of the sea was named Nereus. Among other powers, he could prophesy the future. That’s why researchers at the University of British Columbia thought to name a project to predict future ocean conditions after Nereus. Now, the initial computer simulations are out.

Marlin, blue fin tuna could become regulars in Northwest waters

Tom Banse — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:09:40 +0000

NEWPORT, Ore. – Climate change may push fish native to the Northwest coast further northward and bring fish from southern waters up here.

That's according to a forthcoming study by American and Canadian fisheries biologists. They suggest West Coast fishermen will need to adapt to different prey if the Pacific Ocean warms as projected over the next fifty years.

Choose your poisson

Dick Stein — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:01:00 +0000

Hope I'm not getting all touchy-eely and making a bass of myself but before I clam up and call for kelp I should point out that if you tuna in to this Food for Thought you'll be herring all about...