We have known for some time that one or more chemicals in our stormwater runoff kills Coho salmon, but haven’t known which specific chemical to blame. Now, we do. Teams of scientists from Washington State University (WSU), the University...
Imagine you are a Coho salmon. You were born in a gravely nest called a redd in Longfellow Creek, a small stream that flows through a West Seattle neighborhood into the Duwamish River and then into Puget Sound. Coho fry....
It’s been a big weekend in the Salish Sea! After enduring the full month of August without Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) encounters, September came and the party began. A new baby orca joined J Pod on Thursday! Then the...
On a cold, dark, and mercifully dry night in October 2019, I ventured out with a team of two other Puget Soundkeeper volunteers to Fourmile Rock in Elliott Bay at low tide to deploy mussels. I’m pretty sure they were...
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