ANACORTES — The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars. “Scoters,” Sherman Anderson said. “Three of them. At 11 o’clock.

The gulls were swarming by the shore and the excited barking of sea lions all but confirmed for fishermen getting out of their cars at the Ferry Point parking lot last Sunday that the email and text ...

The Pacific herring—an oily, silvery, schooling fish—is rarely high on the list of marine animals people fret about. But for the second straight year, the Canadian government has ignited a skirmish in ...

If you’re of Scandinavian descent, grew up on the East Coast, or have an Ashkenazi Jewish grandmother, you probably know the merits of herring. Everyone else, even in Seattle, one of the country’s ...