12/3 Celeriac, septic systems, fish farm fine, disaster response overhaul, farm animal deaths, AK algal blooms, climate change curriculum, God's lawn, week in review

Celeriac

Celeriac
Celeriac, also called celery root, knob celery, and turnip-rooted celery, is a variety of celery cultivated for its edible stem or hypocotyl, and shoots. Celeriac is like a root vegetable except it has a bulbous hypocotyl with many small roots attached. (Wikipedia)

Fixing septic systems is key to protecting Puget Sound shellfish
Keeping shellfish safe to eat will get harder without increasing repair and inspection of septic systems that can contaminate shellfish beds. Hannah Weinberger reports. (Crosscut)

Fish farm firm Cermaq Canada fined $500,000 for B.C. diesel spill
Crown had asked for $1.4 million penalty for 2017 incident near Campbell River. Bethany Lindsay reports. (CBC)

First Nations Want Overhaul of Emergency Planning and Response
The system for aiding people in disasters ‘needs to be chucked out and redone,’ says Stό:lō president.  Francesca Fionda reports. (The Tyee)

Farm animals died by the hundreds of thousands in B.C. floods
Hundreds of thousands of livestock have perished in floodwaters in Canada’s westernmost province, the British Columbia government said Thursday. (Bloomberg)

In a First, Alaska’s Arctic Waters Appear Poised for Dangerous Algal Blooms
Climate change is bringing potentially deadly dinoflagellate blooms to the Far North, posing a new risk to food security. Tim Lydon reports. (Hakai Magazine)

‘The science isn’t complicated.’ An investigative reporter details the effects of climate change disinformation in public education
... young people aren’t learning the science of climate change in school. Investigative reporter Katie Worth explores why that is in her new book Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America. Her research led her to build a database of science curriculum and textbook standards in all fifty states. John O'Brien reports. (KUOW)

Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns)
A Long Island couple says fighting climate change and protecting biodiversity starts at home. Or rather, right outside their suburban house. Cara Buckley reports. (NY Times)

Salish Sea News Week in Review 12/3/21: Green bean casserole Friday!, flood damage, Stillaguamish homeland, green crab, Knight Inlet, WA wastewater rules, flooded salmon, Ship It Zero, BC omicron, Jordan Cove no more, septic systems

Now, your weekend tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  209 AM PST Fri Dec 3 2021   
TODAY  E wind 5 to 15 kt becoming 10 to 20 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. W swell 8 ft at 13 seconds. 
TONIGHT  E wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 1 to 2 ft. W swell 7 ft  at 13 seconds. Rain likely. 
SAT  NE wind to 10 kt becoming NW 5 to 15 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell 5 ft at 12 seconds. Rain likely  in the morning then a slight chance of rain in the afternoon. 
SAT NIGHT  NW wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 2 ft or less. W swell  7 ft at 11 seconds. 
SUN  N wind to 10 kt in the morning becoming light. Wind waves  1 ft or less in the morning becoming less than 1 ft. W swell 6 ft  at 10 seconds.

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