by Meg | Jul 5, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Sustainable seafood
Of the 13 MSC certified species from the west coast groundfish trawl fishery, six of these are rockfish. Chilipepper rockfish, splitnose rockfish, widow rockfish, yellowtail rockfish, longspine thornyhead, and shortspine thornyhead were all previously listed as...
by Meg | Jun 25, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Environmental Impact, Internship, Sustainable seafood
Nothing screams summer like sitting outside and enjoying a nice piece of freshly grilled fish or cracking open a steaming Dungeness crab. With summer beginning tomorrow, we have decided to kick off our first ever PDXSeafood Sustainable Seafood Miniseries! In honor of...
by Meg | Jun 12, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Sustainable seafood
Katherine and I have been kicking off the PDXSeafood program for its second summer! We’ve been super busy getting the facebook page up and running, a twitter account, and starting our outreach to more restaurants. (You can tell an interns going to be awesome...
by Meg | May 20, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Internship, Science, Sustainable seafood, wildlife
Diana and I are excited to kick off another season of recruiting restaurants to the PDXSeafood program – it’s been slow going but we’ve contributed this to our inability to make face-to-face contact with Portland restaurants. This year we wizened up...
by Meg | May 16, 2014 | animal, Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News
So tomorrow is endangered species day and in case you want to celebrate all the imperiled species out there here are links to events in the Portland area: The Oregon Zoo (of course) will be celebrating some of our international (think Orangs and Wild Dogs) and...
