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Calendar
Research and education activities relevant to the recovery of the southern resident killer whales To add an event to this calendar, simply create a Google calendar, add the event to it, and invite the southern residents to take notice via … Continue reading
NOAA’s search & tag cruise embarks
Last update — 3/2/2012, 10:00 Brad Hanson and his colleagues from the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, including Marla Holt and Dawn Noren, embarked today (2/16/12) from Newport, OR, aboard the NOAA ship Shimada (MMSI 369970147) to search for southern resident … Continue reading
Updates from NOAA on Elwha science
Yesterday Sarah Morely of NOAA/NWFSC Watershed Program, Fish Ecology Division gave a 40-minute synopsis of the “Elwha River Dam Removal – Past, Present, Future.” My notes are appended and the NOAA site has an abstract with recommended references (also appended … Continue reading
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Big fall chinook run expected on Columbia
Today’s Weekender Report from WDFW suggests SRKWs could have some good eating off the mouth of the Columbia this fall. Does anyone have a read on how the Fraser chinook runs are faring this summer? Why don’t killer whale conservationists … Continue reading
Glimpses into the Columbia spring chinook fishery
In our on-going efforts to monitor Pacific salmon dynamics and interpret them from the perspective of southern resident killer whales, today brings news of a 6-hour commercial net fishery opening on the lower Columbia River. It’s amazing that it’s even … Continue reading
CA chinook on upward trend
During the last few weeks as portions of J and K pod (strangely split up into unusual associations) have traveled around Puget Sound, I’ve been wondering where L pod (not the L12s) has been since they were last sighted with … Continue reading
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Fishing closures on Elwha?
Yesterday’s news release from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has at least four items of interest to SRKW conservation scheduled for discussion in their Feb 4-5 meeting. A moratorium on fishing in the Elwha River system to facilitate … Continue reading
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King5 TV shows infrared video of orcas
Tonight reporter Gary Chitten and cameraman Pete Cassam from King 5 Television broadcast a nice story about the successful first test of a FLIR camera for detecting killer whales at night. The pilot study was designed by Jim Thomson of … Continue reading
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Orcas and salmon in new Cascadia Scorecard
The Sightline Institute has just released a new Cascadia Scorecard that attempts to track progress towards sustainability in Cascadia, the ecoregion encompassing much of western Washington and southern British Columbia. Southern resident killer whales and chinook salmon are featured within … Continue reading
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Fulbright talk on marine conservation in the Pacific Northwest
Notes from an annual lecture at the University of Washington, March 3, 2010, at 7pm: “Marine conservation in the Pacific Northwest: Whales, Salmon, and Sound” by Rob Williams, 2009-2010 Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Chair “A scientist is someone who asks ‘what … Continue reading
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