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Fishing News Headlines
5/9/2026
Pacific teems with fish food this year
By Hal Bernton, Seattle Times staff reporter
ABOARD THE ELAKHA - Early on a spring morning, this 54-foot research vessel heads out of Newport, Ore., and encounters a stiff northerly breeze. For humans, it's a lousy day to be at sea, with swells large enough to turn a landlubber green at the gills.
But for the marine world, days like this are prime for cold-water upwellings that produce an explosion of zooplankton at the base of the Pacific food chain.
Oceanographer Bill Peterson peers into a plastic bucket. At first glance, the seawater appears almost clear. Closer inspection finds tiny translucent creatures, some as small as grains of rice. Others resemble slender snakes with dark bulging eyes. A Dungeness larva scoots around with crablike movements.
"This is good," Peterson said. "There's a lot of different stuff in here."
This is the third spring in a row that scientists working out of Newport have encountered a fertile Pacific, a trend that began in one of the wettest Northwest years on record and has continued even as onshore weather patterns this year set the stage for a severe drought.
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