by NSIA | Jul 31, 2020 | General
Greens, anglers join Columbia River fight Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E News reporter Published: Thursday, July 30, 2020 Environmentalists are joining Washington state in a fight with the Trump administration over temperature standards for the Columbia River. Sarah...
by NSIA | Jul 31, 2020 | General
Columbia-Snake Rivers plan condemned a failure for salmon, Tribes, communities SEATTLE—Organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest today called a federal plan for the Snake and Columbia Rivers a failure for salmon, Tribes and communities. The plan, called a Final...
by NSIA | Jul 29, 2020 | General
Join the fun on Tuesday, July 28! NSIA Summer Online Auction is our opportunity to bring our supporters together safely online to invest in preserving, restoring and enhancing sport fisheries and the businesses dependent on them. Online Auction Open: July 28, at 7...
by NSIA | Aug 2, 2019 | 2019, General
NSIA Executive Director Liz Hamilton has written a letter to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission in support of a permanent rule that would make the use of barbless hooks voluntary in the Columbia Basin. NSIA Letter for Permanent Rule for Voluntary Use Barbless...
by NSIA | Jul 25, 2019 | General
ODFW issued a press release this week to announce hopeful progress being made on state and national levels towards increasing funding for fish and wildlife conservation. The Oregon Governor signed HB2829, the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund, this month which...
by NSIA | Jun 28, 2019 | General
Oregon Legislative Report from George Okulitch: Anybody who tells you politics is boring, wasn’t watching the Oregon legislature this week. In order to prevent Senate Democrats from passing House Bill 2020 (a cap-in-trade bill), Senate Republican’s...
by NSIA | Jun 21, 2019 | General
This past week ASA’s President, Glenn Hughes, as well as several other ASA members met with the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to present their case that sportfishing equipment should be excluded from the proposed tariffs on Chinese goods. ASA...
by NSIA | Jun 12, 2019 | Action Alert
Oregon Representative Cedric Hayden has introduced House Bill 3451 which seeks to transfer the ownership of the Leaburg Hatchery from the Army Corps of Engineers to Oregon State Parks. Hayden notes that the hatchery is an “important piece of natural resource...
by NSIA | Mar 8, 2019 | General
Last Saturday, in a move that shocked everyone, (except perhaps Commissioners McIsaac, Baker and Kehoe, and their allies in the WDFW Staff) the WDFW Commission voted to abandon the Columbia River reforms on a 5-1 vote with 2 abstentions. Their vote restores year...
