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Puget Sound Partnership
www.psp.wa.gov/
Kitsap Trees
Contact: Jim Trainer
360.649.8465
jtrainer058@gmail.com
www.treezinc.com
Bainbridge Isla...
Sally Brownfield: People of the Water
November 27, 2019
Washington Sea Grant is a proud sponsor of We Are Puget Sound: Discovering & Recovering the Salish Sea, a new book by David L. Workman, Leonard Forsman, Mindy Roberts and Brian J. Cantwell from Braided River (an imprint of Mountaineers Books). The following profile is an excerp...
NW Workshop on Bivalve Aquaculture and the Environment: Agenda
NW Workshop on Bivalve Aquaculture and the Environment
Talaris Conference Center
4000 NE 41st Street
Seattle, WA 98105
Workshop Home
Note: The materials available on this page (PDFs) were presented by speakers at the Northwest Workshop on Bivalve Aquaculture and the Environment at Talaris Conferenc...
Trapping for European Green Crab on Whidbey Island
October 12, 2017
The crew prepares to deploy traps at Lagoon Point. L-R Crab Team Lead, Jeff Adams; Volunteers Debra Paros, Michael Anderson, Kes Tautvydas, and Charlie Seablom. (Photo: E. Grason)
Following the recent capture of a single European green crab at Lagoon Point, on Whidbey Island (read m...
A Career Saving Seabirds
From the autumn 2019 Sea Star print newsletter
Looking back on the work of marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin upon his retirement
“I’ve never had an ornithology class in my life,” Ed Melvin confides on a sunny afternoon sitting by Seattle’s Portage Bay. For anyone familiar with Me...
Crew School
“Crew School” is designed to provide fundamental commercial fishing crew member training; in the classroom, aboard commercial fishing vessels and in the historic Ancich Netshed on Gig Harbor’s waterfront. Two Washington Sea Grant U.S. Coast Guard approved safety-training courses are in...
CORRECTION: First European Green Crab Confirmed in Port Angeles
February 5, 2018: CORRECTION
Since this report was made, we have determined that the evidence originally submitted of the crab’s identity was not verifiable as a direct observation of the crab. Because European green crab is currently very rare in Washington’s Salish Sea, the majority of...
Sowing (Clam) Seed for the Indigenous Aquaculture Leaders of Tomorrow
From the winter 2021–2022 Sea Star print newsletter
How the Cross-Pacific Regional Collaborative Hub for Indigenous Aquaculture fosters student participation, research and communications
By MaryAnn Wagner, WSG Assistant Director for Communications
A participant of the Cross-Pacific Regional Coll...
Who Will Rescue the Rescuers?
Who Will Rescue the Rescuers?
Washington Sea Grant alerts the Coast Guard’s first responders to the critical danger they will face when a tsunami strikes.
Coast Guard airmen and seamen muster to hear Ian Miller share some inconvenient truths about tsunami dangers.
It was a crisp, bright ...
Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Hazel Secor from Cape Flattery Fishermen’s Co-Op
April 29, 2022
By Benjamin Haagen, Science Communications Fellow
Hazel Secor has been working as manager of the Cape Flattery Fisherman’s Co-op in Neah Bay, Washington since 2014, supporting the local fishing industry and working with fishers to process and distribute seafood to communities aroun...
WSG Seaweed Office Hours
Drop-in office hours for all your seaweed information needs!
How to participate:
Zoom meeting link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96836051377?pwd=dGJWc0RuRm9ZTFArbzQ2aGFacWRBZz09
Join at any point during the one-hour window (no RSVP required)
Attendees will be served in order of arrival
Please stay ...
2021 Volume 1
2021 Volume 1
Let the trapping begin!
June, 2021
This spring had a lot of us reflecting on what our lives were like a year ago. In June 2020, crabbers were in the mud, just as they are now, but how they got there in 2021 looked a lot different. While green c...
Story of Simon the Salmon
Seagrass Wars: The Spots Awaken
Seagrass is under attack! Hit ‘play’ to learn more, then take the ‘Sequel Challenge’ (to the right→)
Oysters and Seagrass—Guardians of the Sea!
Oysters—Nature’s vacuum cleaners ...