River & Ocean Film Festival
Save the Date for this year’s River and Ocean Film Festival
The 8th River and Ocean Film Festival is slated to return in 2024!
Save the date for October 18th at the Rainforest Arts Center in Forks, for the 8th annual River and Ocean Film Festival. As always, t...
Scandinavian Pickled Herring Bites
September 30, 2022
By Olivia Horwedel, WSG Science Communications Fellow
For this week’s sustainable seafood recipe, we are highlighting herring, a fish that is often underutilized in seafood dishes. These pickled herring bites are influenced by the flavors of Scandinavia that have made their way ...
Rising Seas and a Plan to Deal with Climate Change
Rising Seas and a Plan to Deal with Climate Change
WSG’s Ian Miller helps the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe lead the way in climate planning.
Many native tribes in Washington are acutely exposed to the effects of climate change. From the Swinomish Reservation on Skagit Bay to...
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Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Jania and Gene Panida
October 26, 2020
By James Lee, Science Communications Fellow
Jania’s brother Steve Wilson is a fisherman who fishes out of La Push. Years ago, Steve began selling his fish at farmer’s markets in the Seattle and Tacoma areas under the name Wilson Fish. Eventually Jania and her husband Gene t...
Shellfish
Shellfish in Washington
Washington is the nation’s lead producer of farmed clams, oysters, and geoducks, with an estimated annual harvest worth more than $107 million. Nowhere else in the country can you find the abundance and variety of shellfish that we enjoy.
Shellfish have been a su...
Reporting
Reporting
Progress, Completion, and Post-Project Reports
Principle investigators are required to provide Washington Sea Grant (WSG) with progress, completion, and post-completion project reports, which are used in program management at local, state, and national levels. The reports are WSG’s prima...
Riparian Rehab Gets a Boost
Engineered log jams could be an important tool for salmon restoration
From the spring 2020 Sea Star print newsletter
By Bobbie Buzzell, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Efforts in Washington State to re-establish salmon populations and riparian habitat have been underway for quite some tim...
Environmental DNA (Part 3): Reconciling eDNA with Traditional Detection Methods
March 30, 2022
This is the third in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA) for use in early detection and management of European green crab. The first posts provided an introduction to eDNA and the benefits and challenges it offers to invasion managers.
In devel...
Environmental DNA (Part 2): A Cautionary Carp Tale
March 3, 2022
This is the second in a series of posts sharing new research on the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) in detection of green crabs. For our introduction to eDNA, check out the previous post.
Collaborator Ryan Kelly shows just how easy sample collection is for eDNA assays at a site on Vash...
2019 Volume 1
2019 Volume 1
The “Team” in Crab Team
June 3, 2019
It’s difficult to believe, but Washington Sea Grant Crab Team has officially launched our fifth year of monitoring. It’s easy for us to reflect on the number of green crab, monitoring...
Molt Search
Molt Search
The emerging invasion by European green crabs (Carcinus maenas) threatens marine resources in Washington. Early detection of small populations gives us the best chance to reduce the spread and impact of this globally damaging invasive species.
Wa...
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...