Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
Cronkite News - Arizona PBS
Mackenzie Wilkes
4 August 2021
California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Yurok Tribe, located in Northern California, depends on fishing to sustain a living. However, a severe drought, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a crumbling highway severely affected the tribe. So, leaders are turning t...
29 July 2021
Rhode Island, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
After the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted seafood supply chains, several organizations in the New England region took steps to connect fishermen’s catches with the local community. For example, the Rhode Island–based nonp...
14 July 2021
Port Angeles, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
After decades of collaboration between the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in Washington state, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other organizations, the Elwha River dams were taken down to restore fish populations a...
13 May 2021
Nova Scotia, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
The invasive European green crab was wreaking havoc on the soft-shell clam fishery in Nova Scotia. But fishers, researchers, and park officials worked together to remove as many of them as possible and find an alterna...
Indian Country Today
Meghan Sullivan
31 March 2021
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Sam Schimmel, a college student and member of the Siberian Yupik and Kenaitze tribes, helped organize a food drive on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska. The initiative, known as Operation Fish Drop — delivered more than 1...
31 March 2021
Quapaw, Oklahoma, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
More and more Indigenous communities throughout North America are reclaiming their ancestral lands as a way to access traditional foodways. For example, a group of Mi’kmaq tribes in Nova Scotia bought a majority share...
16 March 2021
Kendu Bay, Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
A renewable energy project in Kenya is empowering women to catch their own fish instead of relying on “sex-for-fish” deals. Previously, men used to control the mechanisms for catching fish and would only sell to women...
25 February 2021
Ghana
Text
1500-3000 Words
A growing number of governments, companies, and nonprofit organizations are working together with new technology and data to identify fishing vessels that are breaking laws and engaging in human rights violations. Usi...
23 February 2021
New Jersey, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Supporting Oyster Aquaculture and Restoration initiative (SOAR), coordinated by the Pew Charitable Trusts, The Nature Conservancy, and various state agencies, NGOs, and universities, spent millions buying oysters ...
18 February 2021
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
To weather the uncertainties of the pandemic and geopolitical trade disputes, many small, locally-operated fisheries in the United States have upended the way they do business by selling their catches directly to cons...
16 February 2021
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
Fishploration provides scientifically guided tours of fish markets to teach consumers how to select sustainable and non-threatened fish that are in season and caught using non-destructive fishing practices. Each month...
2 February 2021
Colville Indian Reservation, Washington, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The Grand Coulee, a 500-foot-tall dam on the Columbia River, nearly eradicated the salmon population that the Colville Tribes relied on, but the Indigenous community initiated a restoration effort to save the fish. Th...
22 January 2021
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
A rapidly changing climate is shaking up how French Polynesian pearl farmers are doing business. Kamoka Pearl Farm is incorporating more sustainable practices like using its own oysters to create the nuclei that form ...
19 January 2021
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
After restaurants closed due to COVID-19 and tariffs were implemented on exports to China, fishermen and women in the United States had to shift their business model to sell directly to consumers. For example, Get Hoo...
19 January 2021
Namibia
Text
Under 800 Words
Tens of thousands of vulnerable bird species have been saved over the last decade thanks to new equipment that has been installed by Namibian fishing boats. By fitting colorful hosepipe to lines towed behind boats, a ...
Hakai Magazine
Kamala Thiagarajan
12 January 2021
Pamban Island, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
Kadal Osai (Sound of the Sea) is a radio broadcast with programming designed for fishers and their families since 2016. It reaches about 50,000 people from 30 fishing villages within a 15-kilometer radius of the stati...
12 January 2021
Na Doi, Thailand
Text
800-1500 Words
By setting aside an area of the Ngao River to be off limits for fishing, several villages in Thailand have seen a revitalization of large barb and carp in their waters. Compared to non-protected stretches of the river...
7 January 2021
Ghana
Text
Under 800 Words
With more than 200 communities along the Ghana coast relying on small-scale fishing, a new app called DASE seeks to hold industrial trawlers accountable for illegally fishing in their seas. The app allows people to ta...
28 December 2020
British Columbia, Canada
Text
Over 3000 Words
Dwindling numbers of wild salmon have been reported in British Columbia’s coastal waters, so many organizations, governments, and fishers have advocated for land-based salmon farming. The transition to more sustainabl...
23 December 2020
Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A unique partnership between scientists, state agencies, and coastal communities in Washington state allows these different entities to monitor and manage toxic algal blooms. Known as the Olympic Region Harmful Algal ...
KUNC
Luke Runyon
21 December 2020
Randlett, Utah, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Scientists and environmentalists are working to keep several fish species native to the Colorado River basin from going extinct. Through interventions like fish hatcheries and wetland management, some fish numbers lik...
19 December 2020
Miami, Florida, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Florida, a land-based salmon farming operation has optimized the ideal conditions for fish to be raised sustainably on land. “There is no winter here, there are no diseases, there are no sea lice. We optimize every...
15 December 2020
Tamil Nadu, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
Local villages along the coast of India are seen as a model for large-scale seaweed cultivation, which can be a form of sustainable agriculture and climate mitigation. As the country’s land is being lost to soil degra...
24 November 2020
Fidalgo Island, Washington, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The Swinomish tribe in Washington state is combining traditional knowledge and science to combat the effects of climate change and improve the health of its land, water, and people. In recent years, their salmon harve...
21 October 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
A community-based seafood program called Fiishadelphia is the first community supported fishery run by high-school students in the city. They offer locally harvested and affordable seafood to a diverse customer base w...
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