Monday April 14, 2025
The Seattle Times —
Owen Liu was hired to help solve a mystery.
Fishers had been plying the Pacific Ocean in search of hake, a species making up one of the most lucrative fisheries on the West Coast.
But the catch hadn’t met expectations for a decade, Liu said.
Liu was tapped last year to unravel the conundrum. He was developing a tool to help understand Pacific hake distribution — before being fired by the Trump administration along with more than 600 other National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration probationary employees.