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October 2016
Bellingham SeaFeast-Saturday
Bellingham SeaFeast showcases and celebrates our rich maritime heritage, thriving working waterfront, commercial fishing and seafood industries, and the culinary bounty of our corner of the Pacific Northwest. This inaugural Bellingham SeaFeast, with FREE admission, appeals to all ages, backgrounds, and interests. There will be a ton of experiential activities, fresh seafood (and other fare), while experiencing Nature’s gift of Bellingham-by-the-Bay. Event Highlights: Salmon bbq competition (pro and amateur divisions) Boat Tour Demos (knot-tying, net-mending, survival suits, filleting, crab-cracking, & more… Races…
Find out more »OysterFest
Oysters, wines, microbrews, live music and so much more come together for two days every year. Hosted by the Shelton Skookum Rotary Club Foundation and attended by thousands, OysterFest is home to the West Coast Oyster Shucking Championships and is Washington State’s official seafood festival. The festival also features a popular cook-off, hands-on water quality exhibits, and is itself a giant a food pavilion with nearly 100 unique items on the menu. The event supports about 100 local non-profit service clubs…
Find out more »WWU Huxley Speaker Series: Julie Hirsch on Salish Sea Stewardship
Garden of the Salish Sea Curriculum (GSSC) is an innovative K-12 stewardship and community environmental education initiative created on Lummi Island in 2012. In her Speaker Series talk, Julie Hirsch will present Oystertopia: Stewards of the Salish Sea, a short film directed by Sam Giffin that documents a GSSC oyster planting carried out by Lummi Island students in June 2016. She will also offer a slide presentation that focuses on shellfish harvesting, ocean acidification and stewardship of the Salish Sea.
Find out more »SAFS Seminar: Dave Beauchamp: Anthropogenic Impacts on Bottom-up and Top-down Processes Affecting Marine Survival of Salmon in the Salish Sea
David will discuss some recent results and emerging hypotheses related to marine survival of salmon in the Salish Sea. Bottom-up processes mechanistically link with top-down control of populations, and these interactions are mediated by environmental variability and human-induced changes in land and water use. He will discuss the implications of how natural and anthropogenic changes in water transparency and artificial light pollution have significantly increased the predation threat environment for juvenile salmon in the Salish Sea in recent decades. Held…
Find out more »Dungeness crab season opens
Winter season opens on October 7th for Dungeness and red rock crab (all fishing methods) and remains open seven days a week through December 31st. Marine Area 9: Port Gamble/Port Ludlow Marine Area 12: Hood Canal
Find out more »Salmon Docent Training
There are a few still spots available for a FREE Salmon Docent training on Friday, October 7, from 10am-3pm at the Clear Creek Sa’qad Interpretive Center! Learn about the salmon life cycle, habitat needs, and the species most commonly found in Kitsap streams. Becoming a Salmon Docent is a wonderful way to protect the salmon that call our Peninsula home! Sign up to work 2 hours at Salmon Tours and receive a FREE Kitsap Salmon Field Guide! Register: http://salmondocent2016.bpt.me/
Find out more »Documentary Screening: Ebb and Flow
This Sunday catch the premiere of the documentary "Ebb and Flow" about the Yamashita family and their their role preventing oyster shellfish farming from collapse in Washington State at The Varsity Theatre. This event is a fundraiser for the producers of Ebb and Flow and ticket prices vary depending on the donation. Ebb and Flow, a film by Leaping Frog Films three years in the making, follows Patrick Yamashita, a third generation Japanese–American and his father Eiichi (aka Jerry) now…
Find out more »Septic Sense Workshop
Maintaining your septic system will save money and keep pollution out of our local waterways Kitsap County residents are invited to a free workshop to learn how to keep their septic systems working well and lasting longer. Well maintained septic systems will save homeowners money and keep bacteria and nutrients out of local creeks, lakes, and Puget Sound. Attendees will also receive a free “green” cleaning kit (one per household). Refreshments provided. Workshop will include information about: · How septic systems work…
Find out more »Ocean Seminar Series with Kim Bernard
Kim Bernard from Oregon State University, Dept. of Earth/Ocean/Atmospheric Sciences will be speaking at the UW School of Oceanography Ocean Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be available at 2:15.
Find out more »SAFS Seminar: Ernesto Peñas Lado: The EU Common Fisheries Policy. Can we do the job?
The presentation will summarize the origin of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) with emphasis on the events that shaped the policy to this day. The evolution of the policy over the years, to achieve the sustainability of fish stocks until the last reform in 2013, will be described, and the challenges for the effective implementation of the reformed policy will be discussed. Born in Galicia (Spain), Ernesto Peñas Lado was trained as a marine biologist, and did research on fisheries and…
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