Puget Sound

Today we explored Seattle’s Pike Place Market where you see the famous fish throwing and took a ferry ride across Puget Sound. We walked down to the market down Pike Street from the hotel. First, we did a photo with the famous clock and sign when we entered Pike Place…

Restoration of intertidal marsh habitats on WDFW-managed lands in Skagit, Stillaguamish and Snohomish estuaries benefits salmon and other species. Puget Sound’s estuaries are teeming with life; from salmon smolts to dabbling ducks, seals to shorebirds, bull trout to bivalves. Estuaries are vitally important for many species of fish and wildlife…

By Lev Levy, public affairs officer, Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service With funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Clean Vessel Act, South Puget Sound partners work together to help keep the Sound waters clean for people, wildlife, and industry. Can you feel the movement? Audio described version of this video: https://youtu.be/yrmtSmPBi_Q More on the Clean Vessel Act: https://www.fws.gov/program/clean-ves...

by John Thompson Seaweeds are consumed by many people living on or near the Salish Sea — from Indigenous peoples revitalizing the ancient foodways of their cultures to those simply seeking a readily available and highly nutritious protein source — but little is known about whether contaminants in the Sea’s…

Summer catch record cards due now — Labor Day signals the end of summer across the U.S., and in Washington, marks another particular seasonal milestone: the end of summer crabbing. That means it’s time to look ahead to the winter season, but also time to submit your Puget Sound Dungeness crab catch record card (CRC). Catch record…

Excerpt from The History of Stonetemple Island: A Turbulent Life on the Puget by Frank Blitzer In the golden years of Stonetemple, weekend excursions for the family were often kicked off with a ferry to the mainland. But aside from a cold beach and a tiny cinema, there was nothing…

“Time and tide wait for no man” We can’t stop the passage of time nor the movement of the tides, no matter how much we might want to halt the inexorable inevitability. This proverb appeared about 1395 in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prologue to the Clerk’s Tale but I also found a…