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From Our Dock to Your Table: Bellingham Dockside Market Connects Fishermen and Local Consumers

January 13, 2021

By Grace Freeman, WSG Science Communications Fellow

As Bellingham SeaFeast director Liz Purdy was gearing up for the 2020 festival scheduled for September, it quickly became clear that this year’s event would be different. Founded in 2016, SeaFeast ...

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Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline Virtual Opening Celebration

January 12, 2020

In case you missed it, here’s the recording for Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline Virtual Opening Celebration from the Burke Museum. Learn how Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson created a lifelong friendship and partnership that over the past decades ...

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Marine Parasites on the Rise

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Pointing the Data Toward Prosperity

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Spotting Salmon With Sound

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Reimagining Our Future Shorelines

Though the initiative is wrapping up, the Washington Coastal Resilience Project will continue to help communities prepare for shoreline hazards for years to come

From the Winter 2020–2021 Sea Star print newsletter

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Director’s Note: Looking Back on a Difficult Year—and Ahead to Celebrating 50 Years of Washington Sea Grant

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New Video: King Tides Are Here

December 14, 2020

In a typical year, we would invite the public to join us at a king tides viewing party this week to learn about the highest tides of the year, and what they can teach us about sea level ...

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Washington Sea Grant Received Four Grants from the Habitat Strategic Initiative in 2020

December 10, 2020

WSG awarded grants for Green Shores for Homes, Sea Level Rise Exposure, Shoreline Monitoring Toolbox, and Green Crab Projects for a total of $1.15 million.

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New Report: Puget Sound Marine Waters See Effect of Climate Change in 2019

December 9, 2020

Post shared from Puget Sound Partnership:

A new report details the effects of a changing climate on Puget Sound in 2019, and documents how these changes moved through ...

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Head Outdoors This Holiday Season to Witness King Tides and Help Build a Picture of the Future

November 23, 2020

The MyCoast app allows you to instantly share photos of the season’s biggest tides

King tides, the annual extreme-high tides that occur whenever the moon is closest to Earth, are a dramatic feature of Washington winters – and offer ...

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Harmonizing with my Roots

November 20, 2020

Melissa Watkinson reflects on her Indigenous heritage and her new role at Washington Sea Grant

By Melissa Watkinson, Equity, Access and Community Engagement Lead

Heartbeats thump to the rhythm of the collective drum that echoes throughout downtown Seattle. ...

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Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Dave Sones

November 9, 2020

By James Lee, Science Communications Fellow

Dave Sones is a fisherman and a member of the Makah ...

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Who Brings Your Seafood to You? Hooked on Westport with Marina May

November 2, 2020

This story by deckhand Marina May has been republished ...

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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, ...

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Director’s Note: Our Commitment to Safe and Sustainable Seafood

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Send Your Ideas: What Are the Best Pacific Northwest Oyster Stories?

October 19, 2020

“Shuck, slurp, repeat.”

Washington Sea Grant is proud to announce its plan to revise and update the popular book, Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Northwest’s Love Affair ...

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Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Pete Knutson

October 19, 2020

By James Lee, Science Communications Fellow

Pete Knutson owns Loki Fish Company, a family business. He fishes mostly salmon, with a ...

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Welcome To Our New Aquaculture Specialist

October 15, 2020

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to welcome Nicole Naar as a new aquaculture ...

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UW Graduate Selected as New WSG Keystone Fellow

October 13, 2020

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to announce that University of Washington graduate Andres Sheikh has been selected as the 2020–2021 WSG Keystone Fellow. Through the fellowship, he will spend the year working at the Puget Sound Partnership. ...

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Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Amy Grondin

October 12, 2020

By James Lee, Science Communications Fellow

Amy Grondin is a salmon fisherman and a ...

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Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Andy Mitby

October 5, 2020

By James Lee, Science Communications Fellow

Andy Mitby of Drake Teal Fisheries is a fourth-generation fisherman and also a Husky alum, with ...

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Governor Jay Inslee Proclaims October Seafood Month

October 1, 2020

Consumers have long had access to local Washington seafood through their favorite grocer or ...

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Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Libie Cain

October 1, 2020

By James Lee, Science Communications Fellow

Libie Cain fishes Dungeness crab and albacore out of Westport. She grew up on ...

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Help Us Improve Washington Waters Through Our Boater Outreach Survey

September 17, 2020

Attention boaters!

Do you have a few minutes to learn about marine debris and help us in our efforts ...

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Building an Antidote to “Helicopter Research”

September 15, 2020

A Washington Sea Grant intern shares lessons from his summer here, and how he’s passing those lessons on through the Community Engagement Toolkit

By William Walker, Doris Duke Conservation Scholar

Washington ...

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Four UW Graduates Selected for the 2020–2021 WSG Hershman Fellowship

September 10, 2020

We are pleased to announce that Henry Bell, Emily Buckner, Elise Lasky and Dorothy Mulkern have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship for 2020-2021. This fellowship places highly motivated, qualified individuals with marine and coastal host ...

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Local and Coastal: Fisherman’s Grilled Salmon + BONUS RECIPE

September 4, 2020

By Abby Rogerson, WSG Student Assistant

Robert Sudar landed his first salmon fishing gig thanks to his grandfather, who had been fishing commercially since the end of World War II. Fresh out of high school, he worked ...

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