John Ryan

Oct 16, 2024 | savingseafood.org | John Ryan

October 16, 2024 — Federal officials have agreed to take another look at how Washington state regulates a deadly poison — cyanide. The lethal substance is often used to make metals, plastics, dyes, and pesticides and to extract gold and silver from mineral ores. The concern is that legal levels of cyanide winding up in Washington waters may be harming wildlife, including orcas and other endangered species.

Sep 29, 2023 | savingseafood.org | Hope McKenney |John Ryan

September 28, 2023 — Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas that were hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fisheries this year, and conservation groups say more needs to be done to prevent such deaths. According to NOAA Fisheries, a tenth whale was released alive, but the nine other orcas incidentally caught in trawl nets weren’t so lucky.

Sep 28, 2023 | ktoo.org | Hope McKenney |John Ryan |John Ryan

Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas that were hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fisheries this year, and conservation groups say more needs to be done to prevent such deaths. According to NOAA Fisheries, a tenth whale was released alive, but the nine other orcas incidentally caught in trawl nets weren’t so lucky.