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| Golden dirona [Mary Jo Adams] |
This strikingly beautiful nudibranch is reddish to golden orange with white spots on the body and white markings on the cerata that lend a frosted appearance. Although usually smaller, it can attain a length of 5 inches/12 cm. This species feeds on bryozoans. Its range extends from Norton Sound, Alaska to Puget Sound, Washington. This nudibranch has also been known as Dirona aurantia. (Mary Jo Adams/Sound Water Stewards)
Time to vote: Polls are open across Canada
After a 40-day campaign, it's time for Canadians to decide on the next federal government. Polls have opened across the country to vote in this 43rd general election. The first ballots were cast at 8:30 a.m. local time in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, and the last will be cast at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET) in British Columbia. John Paul Tasker reports. (CBC) See: From both ends of the pipeline, Canadians worry about Trans Mountain's future ahead of election (CBC)
Oyster growers agree to abandon quest to use controversial insecticide in Southwest Washington tidelands
A Southwest Washington oyster growers association has abandoned a quest to use a controversial insecticide that combats burrowing shrimp, a creature that can make tidelands unfit for shellfish farming. In a settlement reached last week, the Willapa Grays Harbor Growers Association agreed to accept a 2018 state Ecology Department denial of the proposed use of imidacloprid and drop an appeal to the state Pollution Control Hearings Board. The growers wanted to use the insecticide to spray up to 500 annually of the more than 12,000 acres of tidelands used for shellfish cultivation in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor. Without the spray, the growers say they lose productive tidelands to the shrimp, which churn up sediment and can cause oysters, as well as clams, to suffocate in the muck. The proposed imidacloprid spraying was opposed by National Marine Fisheries Service because of risks to other marine life, and it triggered a public backlash led by some high-profile Seattle chefs. Hal Bernton reports. (Seattle Times)
European green crab totals climb in Neah Bay, decline in Dungeness
Keep trapping or not: that’s the dilemma facing the Makah Tribe in Neah Bay. The tribe’s totals for European green crab, an invasive species known for edging out local sea life such as Dungeness crab and eelgrass beds, have surpassed the high mark from last year. From April 1 to Oct. 2, Adrianne Akmajian, a marine ecologist with Makah Fisheries, and her crews caught 1,262 green crab between the Tsoo-Yess River, Wa’atch River and near Tsoo-Yess Beach. That’s more than 20 times the Sequim area’s totals, an area that in 2018 shared with Neah Bay the distinction of having the largest totals for European green crab captures across the Salish Sea. Last year, the Makah Tribe captured 1,030 green crabs. Matthew Nash reports. (Peninsula Daily News)
Working being done to restore habitat for the Oregon spotted frog
Under gray skies and framed by hills adorned in fall foliage, a group spent Thursday unrolling rafts of vegetation much like one might unroll a new lawn. The rafts, which were made of grasses native to area wetlands and stitched together with rope made of coconut fibers, were hauled through knee- to waist-deep water and put down with a splash in the upper Samish River watershed. The goal of the work: To provide habitat for a rare frog species few know is found here, and fewer are working to document and restore. Kimberly Cauvel reports. (Skagit Valley Herald)
Why growing antibiotic resistance in the Salish Sea's marine mammals is bad news for humans
To learn how antibiotic-resistant bacteria jump from wildlife to livestock to pets to humans, researchers are collecting samples from a wide range of species — including those in the ocean. Jane C. Hu reports. (High Country News)
6,000 pounds of dog poop a day: Kirkland locked in dirty war
A French bulldog trots along Kirkland’s Juanita Beach Park, followed by his walker who is chatting on her cell phone. The plump dog stops, snorts and gets in position. Snout up, hips back, bear down. Plop. The dog walker, distracted by her conversation, pulls on the leash, seemingly unaware that the dog just did his business on the grass. The pair exit, leaving another casualty in Kirkland’s War on Dog Poop. The bulldog’s feces, along with other unscooped piles, will eventually be cataloged by Kirkland city officials, who have been working since September to monitor how much dog poop is left at two of the city’s parks. Yellow flags now dot Juanita Beach Park and Hazen Hills Park, which the poop monitors — they volunteered for this task — used to mark every pile of dog waste. Over a three-week period, they documented more than 250 “findings” in the two parks. Paige Cornwall reports. (Seattle Times)
Volunteers plant trees to help salmon, orcas
In about two hours Saturday morning, 80 volunteers planted more than 1,400 trees on a 3-acre strip of shoreline on March Point — one small piece of the effort to add habitat for salmon and the orca whales that depend on them for food. The event, hosted by the Skagit Conservation District, was part of the second annual Orca Recovery Day. Jacqueline Allison report. (Skagit Valley Herald)
Now, your tug weather--West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca- 143 AM PDT Mon Oct 21 2019
TODAY S wind 5 to 15 kt becoming E 10 to 20 kt in the afternoon. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. W swell 8 ft at 11 seconds. Rain.
TONIGHT W wind 10 to 20 kt. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. W swell 8 ft at 11 seconds. Rain in the evening then rain likely after midnight.
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