Jim Balsiger, acting assistant administrator of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service says in an understatement, “This is a bleak year.” Federal officials at a Thursday news conference officially called the West Coast ocean salmon fishery a failure. This move paves the way for congress to appropriate economic disaster assistance for the coastal communities whose members [...]
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