10/7 Vermilion rockfish, WA carbon market, Vancouver sewage, AK mining road, shoreline access, Nobel Prize, democracy watch

Vermilion rockfish [Sea Grant]

Vermilion rockfish Sebastes miniatus
Vermilion rockfish range from Zaikof Bay, Montague Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska, to San Benito Islands, Baja California. Adults are found at water depths from 6 to 436 m (20-1,440 ft) and are most common between 50 and 150 m (165-495 ft). Sub-adult and adult vermillion rockfish aggregate on high relief rocky bottoms. Vermilion rockfish can grow up to 76 cm (30 in) in length, and 6.8 kg (15 lbs) in weight. Maximum age is at least 60 years old. (WDFW)

Today's top story in Salish Current: Islanders help shape county climate resilience plan

Supreme Court shoots down challenge to WA carbon market 
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a high-profile challenge to Washington’s Climate Commitment Act, marking yet another victory for the state’s keystone climate policy. Conrad Swanson reports. (Seattle Times) 

Metro Vancouver votes to scale down sewage treatment project from $10B to $6B
The new $6-billion plan is to upgrade the existing facility in phases to comply with provincial and federal regulations for "secondary-level" treatment, which removes up to 90 per cent or more of pollutants typically found in wastewater, such as small suspended solids. he Iona Island plant, located in Richmond, B.C., is currently only a "primary treatment" facility that removes materials that float or settle out by gravity and removes about half of dissolved organic materials. Lauren Vanderdeen reports. (CBC) 

Trump Signs Order to Approve Ambler Access Road for Mining in Alaska
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the government to approve a 211-mile industrial road that would cut through pristine Alaskan wilderness to reach a proposed copper and zinc mine. The Trump administration also said the government would invest $35.6 million in exchange for a 10 percent stake in the Canadian company Trilogy Metals. Vancouver-based Trilogy Metals is a 50 percent owner of Alaska-based Ambler Metals, the company behind the contentious mining venture. Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman report. (NY Times) 

Man petitions county over access to the shoreline
K’allen Specht, 39, alleges use of “ghost signs,” concrete barriers and removal of parking erased access to Hillman Place, a 1909 public right-of-way.  Jenna Millikan reports. (Everett Herald) 

This Seattle scientist just won a Nobel Prize. Here's what it's for
Seattle scientist, Mary Brunkow, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Her work, alongside two other scientists, led to a new branch of immunology research that has already led to new treatments for cancers and autoimmune diseases. Helen Smith reports. (KING) 

Democracy Watch

• Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition (NY Times) 
  
• Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago (AP) 

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Here's your tug weather—  
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  301 PM PDT Mon Oct 6 2025    
TUE  NW wind around 5 kt, becoming W 10 to 15 kt in the  afternoon. Seas 3 to 4 ft. Wave Detail: W 3 ft at 6 seconds and W  3 ft at 12 seconds.  
TUE NIGHT  W wind 10 to 15 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Wave Detail: W  5 ft at 8 seconds and W 6 ft at 14 seconds.

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