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Fisheries management
Coverage of Washington's coastal shellfish fisheries and the work of the WDFW Coastal Shellfish Unit.
- April 18, 2025 These mysterious blue blobs are washing up on WA beaches. What are they? The News Tribune Also in: The Spokesman-Review
- February 2025 West Coast Dungeness crab kicks off after rigorous testing National Fisherman Also in: Hoodline
- February 3, 2025 Test fishing guides Washington's coastal commercial crab season Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (Medium) Also in: The Daily World
- January 31, 2025 Puget Sound fisheries Fishermen's News
- January 14, 2025 Supplies tight, prices high as US Dungy crab season underway in Oregon, Washington Undercurrent News
- September 11, 2024 Dungeness crab megalopae traps shine a light on future harvest opportunities Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (Medium) Also in: The Daily World
- February 5, 2024 Dungeness crab: the West Coast's forever fishery The Astorian Also in: Capital Press
- January 21, 2024 Seafood processing plant 'a total loss' after devastating blaze IntraFish
- January 2024 Washington's coastal Dungeness crab commercial season opens Feb. 1 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (news release) Also in: Perishable News
Research features
- April 21, 2025 Researchers zero in on low-oxygen areas of concern in Puget Sound Salish Sea Currents Magazine
- May 25, 2024 Don't read this if you love oysters The Atlantic
- May 22, 2024 So long triploids, hello creamy oysters Hakai Magazine. Feature on our Global Change Biology study of triploid oyster mortality during heatwaves. Also in: Popular Science ("Climate change is coming for your oysters")
- 2023 Marine heatwaves impact mortality of triploid Pacific oysters Global Change Biology (invited commentary by D.T. Manahan). Commentary on George et al. (2023).
- March 2019 What we can learn from how mussels attach to surfaces underwater Friday Harbor Laboratories Tide Bites, Vol. 67. Also published in the San Juan Islander.
- October 30, 2018 UW study on marine mussels has implications on aquaculture and biomedical industries UW College of Arts & Sciences News. On our Journal of the Royal Society Interface study of how low pH and low oxygen weaken mussel adhesive.
- February 2018 Hanging by a Thread: Mussels in a Changing Ocean Washington Sea Grant (animated video). Animation by Abby Lunstrum, Meg Chadsey, and Laura Newcomb.
- July 2016 Acid attack: can mussels hang on for much longer? UW News Also in: ScienceDaily; Phys.org
- July 2016 Ocean acidification is eating into mussels Grist
- September 2014 Mussels lose footing in more acidic ocean Scientific American
- March 2013 Blue mussels 'hang on' along rocky shores: for how long? Phys.org (National Science Foundation)
- February 2013 Mussels cramped by environmental factors UW News