Even as scientists are still trying to figure out why the Bering Sea snow crab stock crashed in 2021, federal managers are working on a plan to help rebuild it.
A small, spiny fish no one wants to catch has started to appear in trawl nets off the Oregon Coast. Shortbelly rockfish are common off California but were rare in Oregon until recently.
The fish, critical to local economies and the food chain, were already under pressure from human infrastructure like dams. Climate change is turning up the heat.
Several factors contributed to the recent die-off of red abalone, but a significant component was "the blob," a warm mass of water that formed in the Pacific coastal waters a few years ago.
Survey results showed halibut numbers were down 23 percent from last summer, according to scientists at the International Pacific Halibut Commission interim meeting.
