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Fishers are on their way to recovery in Washington, completing a critical conservation milestone 12 years in the making.

Here are just a few of the amazing things Washingtonians discovered in labs, in the field and elsewhere that you may have missed.

After recent declines, a new breeding program could help safeguard the cockle's future as a food source for tribes like the Suquamish.

With Washington's natural kelp beds declining, farms could fill an ecological niche and serve an emergent market. But barriers to entry remain high. 

Mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and West Nile lack vaccines. But Washington scientists think insulin could weaken these diseases in mosquitoes before they reach people.

A new study is attempting to link salmon exposure to toxic substances in wastewater, to orca health 

The secret weapons: suction cups. 

A new series of maps is driving home that as things stand, some people may not have enough time to evacuate a Cascadia tsunami. 

A unilateral reversal of Washington-specific water quality regulations is creating concern around human health and control of state waters.

For 12 years, UW's Julian Olden has studied the native and invasive crayfish populations of Sammamish's Pine Lake. But the citizen scientists who live onshore are his secret weapon.