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Dear Readers,

I’m very excited and humbled to introduce myself as the new US Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center Director. I previously worked in the nonprofit world as Deputy Director of the Seattle-based salmon recovery nonprofit, Long Live the Kings. There, I spent a great deal of time helping federal, state, tribal, academic, and other scientists work together in a multi-disciplinary fashion to address critical uncertainties impeding the recovery of our threatened northwest salmon.

My goal is to bring my passion for collaboration to Western Fisheries Research Center and amplify the groundwork the staff here have already laid. Elements we have in store for this year include a new Strategic Plan for 2023-2027, a refined communications strategy, and a strong shoulder behind the science of our great staff and their partners.

As part of our new communications strategy, we bring you our new newsletter, “Something Fishy from the Western Fisheries Research Center”.  The title of this newsletter is an homage to the great artist, Ray Troll and his painting “Something Fishy This Way Comes”.

Our goal is to send this newsletter to you all quarterly to give you a brief insight into who we are and what we do, where we’ve been, where we are going, who we work with, and where our work has been highlighted in the media. We hope this provides you just enough to pique your interest in our work, dig deeper into our website, and drop an email or call us if there’s anything you want to talk about.

We hope you enjoy the articles!

Michael W. Schmidt, Western Fisheries Research Center