by NSIA | Feb 23, 2024 | General
Tom Posey, a giant in the sportfishing industry has recently passed away. Tom started the Tom Posey Company in 1965, as a manufacturer’s representative of sporting and recreational goods. The company enjoyed great success when sportfishing was hitting its peak...
by NSIA | Dec 3, 2023 | General
NSIA, along with our Columbia Basin coalition partners of fisheries and conservation organizations, sent letters last week to Oregon’s U. S. Representatives Earl Blumenaur (see below), Val Hoyle, and Andrea Salinas, thanking them for their support of President...
by NSIA | Sep 30, 2023 | General
On September 27, 2023, the Biden Administration issued a Presidential Memorandum on restoring salmon and other native fish to the Columbia River Basin. The memorandum states that it is the Biden Administration’s policy to, “work with the Congress and with Tribal...
by NSIA | Sep 16, 2023 | General
On September 13th, the Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association joined 31 other fishing and conservation organizations to call on the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to put aside partisan politics and...
by NSIA | Apr 30, 2023 | General
Olympia, WA, April 24, 2023. Yesterday the Washington State Legislature confirmed that honoring Tribal treaty rights and saving lower Snake River salmon from extinction are important priorities. The final 2023-25 Washington State Transportation and Operating Budgets...
by NSIA | Mar 12, 2023 | General
Last August, Senator Murray and Governor Inslee issued their final lower Snake River Benefits Replacement Report and Recommendations. They concluded in their in-depth analysis that we can replace the energy, transportation, and irrigation services these four dams...
by NSIA | Dec 18, 2022 | General
NSIA hosted the 2023 Columbia River Run Forecast Meeting last week as an online meeting, with representatives from ODFW, including Tucker Jones, and sportfishing industry leaders coming together to discuss the 2022 Columbia Basin returns and the 2023 forecast. 2022...
by NSIA | Dec 11, 2022 | General
NSIA has signed onto a letter with over twenty sportfishing and conservation organizations, calling on Congressional leaders to “prioritize and approve” H. R. 404 – the Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act. This bipartisan bill would “finalize the...
by NSIA | Nov 20, 2022 | Action Alert
This summer we saw a series of significant steps forward in the fight to save the struggling Columbia-Snake Basin salmon populations. The Biden Administration committed to the “development of a durable long-term strategy to restore salmon and other native fish...
by NSIA | Nov 20, 2022 | General
NSIA has signed onto a letter with a broad coalition of 95 Pacific Northwest organizations addressed to the Council on Environmental Quality that conveys appreciation for the Biden Administration’s report “Rebuilding Interior Columbia Basin Salmon and Steelhead”,...
