Bornstein Seafoods closing Bellingham operations

A statement on the the Coalition's position regarding the Notice of Default sent to Port of Bellingham Tenants in February 2024.

Love Your Waterfront and KMRE receive award for funding from the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area Interpretation Grant.

Coalition presents at the WWU Speaker Series for the College of the Environment about 'Our Working Waterfronts.' The presentation highlighted our commercial fishing sector and important habitat restoration for salmon. It also spoke about how Dept of Ecology works to save our waterfront with strong environmental protections and state law, highlighting the 12 sites currently being cleaned up along the shore.

Cascadia Daily News Highlights Motor Vessel David B and Northwest Navigation with Christine and Jeffrey Smith in their ongoing series about our working waterfronts.

Industrial lands are at a premium in the County. The Council is set to vote on a moratorium that would halt all permit applications to industrial lands, harming the economy of the county and signalling to businesses that Bellingham is a wavering investment opportunity. We should seek to preserve our living wage and trades skills jobs.

Glut in Global Fishing Market, Local Commercial Salmon Fishers face market obstacles. Fisherman face obstacles in salmon market. Salmon Market in turmoil.

By Pete Granger While Alaska might be more than 1,000 miles away, Washington state shares a lot more with the 49th State than most people realize. This is especially true in the fishing industry where the relationship between Washington and Alaska runs deep and ripples throughout Washington’s economy and communities. We are seeing the complexities and the nuances of this relationship play out right now in a lawsuit that the Seattle-based Wild Fish Conservancy brought against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in 2020 with the goal to shut down Southeast Alaska’s small boat, hook-and-line Chinook troll fishery in the misguided name of saving the Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW). On May 2, a federal district judge in Seattle ruled that NMFS had not sufficiently justified allowing the troll fishery to continue, thus putting a possible season in limbo. NMFS and the state of Alaska are appealing this decision.

Saturday, May 20 th on the shores of Blaine-by-the-Sea, crowds of thousands gathered to enjoy and celebrate the bodacious bivalves of Drayton Harbor. Oysters, skillfully farmed, harvested, and stewarded by the Drayton Harbor Oyster Company Crew, took center-stage at the 2nd annual Blaine Oysterfest.