Editorials / Opinion

In their guest column “Saving ocean habitat before it’s drained, Opinion, Feb. 1,” the authors suggest that protecting the Bering Sea canyons would help “save the oceans.” While it is true that the oceans are threatened in many ways, the Bering Sea is not threatened by fishing. It is in fact one of…

In recognition of The Times’ editorial position in “An overdue apology for Native fishing activists … And gratitude for their legacy” [Opinion, Jan. 20], I couldn’t agree with you more: It is about time. Everyone who lives in the Puget Sound region owes tribal fishing-rights activists, past and present, appreciation for their…

Good news for environment, fishermen These waters flow into Bristol Bay, Alaska, above which the proposed Pebble Mine would sit. [Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times] As someone involved in the Bristol Bay commercial fishing industry for three decades, both as a fisherman and an owner of a supporting business, I was pleased to read that mining giant…

Commission should ban octopus fishing in Puget Sound Local dive instructor Bob Bailey, right, confronts a diver harvesting a giant Pacific octupus from a dive site in West Seattle. Although hunting is legal with a permit, the incident has prompted calls for a marine preserve. [Photo courtesy of Mark Saiget.] This Friday, the state Fish and Wildlife…

Commercial waterfront jobs are necessary Huge cranes load containers onto trains after they are brought by trucks from the Port of Seattle to the BNSF Railway Seattle International Gateway in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood. [Ellen Banner, The Seattle Times.] The Seattle Times was right to call out City Hall on the loss of our commercial shipping business. [“Editorial:…

Protect jobs Your editorial about Bristol Bay and the Pebble copper mine was biased and naive [“Editorial: Protect Bristol Bay,” Opinion, June 2]. The environment absolutely needs protection, but people need jobs, too. You completely ignored a study that shows Pebble could create 16,000 high-paying jobs across the country, and because the supplies would mostly be…

Bay is sustainable, creates jobs I appreciate that The Seattle Times recognizes the incredible economic contributions and jobs of the Bristol Bay salmon fishery and how much that means to Washington state [“Editorial: Protect Bristol Bay,” Opinion, June 2]. The Times calls it right when it says Bristol Bay’s American jobs and sustainable natural environment…

Coal trains will be inconvenience A coal tran goes through Seattle on the way to Vancouver, B.C. Recent efforts to bring coal terminals to Washington and Oregon have seen ‘green’ strategists working with coal companies. (GREG GILBERT/THE SEATTLE TIMES) “ ‘Green’ strategists now back coal trains” [page one, Feb. 26] reveals that a great deal of…