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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Heat stress that caused Alaska salmon deaths a sign of things to come, scientist warns

Rhiannon Johnson, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 26, 2019 at 10:34
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Scientists believe heat stress killed thousands of salmon in an Alaskan river last month. From July 7 to 11, communities

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Anglers allowed to catch chinook salmon in northwestern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2019 at 16:04
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There’s some good news for anglers in Yukon hoping to snag a chinook salmon this year. The federal Department of

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Environment Environment (Norway) General Norway 

Is Norway’s farmed salmon as healthy as we think?

Liv Lewitschnik, Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 15:26 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 09:54
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Swedes love salmon but some scientists and a new film say the farmed variety of the fish isn’t as healthy

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General News 

Greenland Atlantic salmon catch numbers well above new quota

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 13:46 — Last Updated: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 11:37
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Just a few months ago, members of the Atlantic Salmon Federation were celebrating. Initial figures from Greenland showed the salmon

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General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

U.S. gov clears path for genetically engineered salmon

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, March 11, 2019 at 15:10
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Genetically engineered salmon is on its way to the United States. U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced Friday

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Seasonal foods threatened by pollution problems, Swedish study says

Simon Linter, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 14:54 — Last Updated: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 15:29
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Christmas dinner could be set to change, according to BalticEye, a research organisation based at Stockholm University.  The amount

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General Society Society (USA) USA 

Amid shrinking sea ice, hunters race to adapt in Alaska

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, February 2, 2018 at 12:03
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With warm temperatures this winter across the state, sea ice is forming exceptionally slowly in the Arctic and Bering Strait

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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

The Katmai bear cam is back

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 00:30
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Explore.org is once again live streaming brown bears as they fish for salmon at Katmai National Park and Preserve. Looking

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Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Norway’s seafood exports booming

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 15:39
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So far this year Norway has exported seafood worth nearly €4 billion, an increase of 26 percent year-on-year. Norwegian seafood

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Environment (Russia) Russia 

Massive death in Russian salmon farms

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2015 at 16:35
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Cage nets dimensioned for 80 thousand fish are filled with 200 thousand, people close to the Murmansk aquaculture industry say.

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Environment (USA) Politics (USA) Society (USA) 

Alaska: Fisheries board member cited for violating fishery closure

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 13:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 20:55
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  A member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries was cited by wildlife troopers in the commercial fishing hotbed of Dillingham last week

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Alaska’s Kuskokwim villages will be able to fish for king salmon under special permit

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 20:26
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BETHEL — The first king salmon are moving into the Kuskokwim River, and so far the only effort to catch

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General Society Society (USA) USA 

Alaska: Mining corporation a no-show in court as environmental criminal case moves forward

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 14:58 — Last Updated: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 21:39
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An Outside mining company accused of polluting salmon streams in Western Alaska failed to show up this week for an initial federal

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Record numbers for Swedish wild salmon

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, September 8, 2014 at 14:43 — Last Updated: Monday, September 8, 2014 at 21:49
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Salmon are surging up Sweden’s rivers in record numbers. In the biggest river, Tornea älv in Norrbotte, over 100,000 salmon

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Salmon leaping on the Big East River, northwestern Newfoundland. (Tom Moffatt / Atlantic Salmon Federation)
Blog Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) 

Greenland fishery plans cause alarm in Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, June 14, 2013 at 16:03
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Every winter, salmon from all over the north Atlantic, including Canada, converge on Greenland to feed in the territory’s waters.

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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