4/8 Wandering tattler, GasLink funding, sea otters, Bristol Bay salmon, cruise ship COVID, week in review

Wandering tattler [Satoko Lincoln/All About Birds]

 

Wandering tattler Tringa incana
A familiar bird in winter along the Pacific Coast, the Wandering Tattler’s plumage blends with dark gray rocks along the ocean. The tattler’s telltale unsteady gait comes from bobbing its tail as it hunts for insects, small mollusks, and crabs. On their arctic breeding grounds, they wear a snappy plumage of dark gray upperparts and neatly barred underparts. They display and forage along streams but conceal their nests in tundra, far from display areas. On migration, they may wander as far as South Pacific islands, over 7,500 miles away. (All About birds)

Royal Bank defends funding B.C.'s Coastal GasLink pipeline despite environmental concerns
Royal Bank of Canada's chief executive defended the bank's funding of the Coastal GasLink pipeline Thursday and called for incentives to help the shift to a net-zero economy, as investors and Indigenous groups denounced its support of fossil fuels. Pipeline has been called a 'carbon bomb' by critics who say it will prevent B.C. from lowering emissions.Nichola Saminather reports. (Reuters)

Human Elements: How otters can help recover imperiled ecosystems
[Dr. Shawn Larson], the curator of conservation research at the Seattle Aquarium, has studied sea otters for 27 years. She’s fascinated by the unique properties that allow them to survive in ice cold waters and how they can help recover some of the sea’s most imperiled ecosystems. Sarah Hoffman and Beatriz Costa Lima report. (Crosscut)

Epic forecast for Bristol Bay salmon has fishing industry worried it will be too much to handle
Biologists are forecasting another massive run of sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay this summer, raising questions in commercial fishing circles about whether the industry will be able to keep up. Alex DeMarban reports. (Anchorage Daily News)

First B.C. cruise ship of season declared free of COVID by U.S. agency
The Koningsdam is just under half full with 1,200 passengers and 900 crew as it heads north from San Diego with stops in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Astoria, Oregon. It’s scheduled to dock at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Victoria and spend 12 hours here before heading to Vancouver Sunday. Darron Kloster reports. (Times Colonist)

Salish Sea News Week in Review 4/8/22: Feng shui, toilet paper, BC herring, old-growth logging pause, Navy SEAL training, WA EVs, stormwater map, Trump water rule, microsplastics in lungs, tree carbon credits, GasLink funding

Now, your weekend tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  232 AM PDT Fri Apr 8 2022   
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT   
TODAY  W wind 15 to 20 kt. Wind waves 2 to 3 ft. W swell 5 ft  at 10 seconds. Showers likely in the morning. A slight chance of  tstms. Showers in the afternoon. 
TONIGHT  W wind 15 to 25 kt becoming 15 to 20 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 2 to 4 ft. W swell 6 ft at 7 seconds. A  chance of rain. 
SAT  W wind 10 to 20 kt becoming 15 to 20 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. NW swell 7 ft at 8 seconds. A chance of  rain in the morning then rain likely in the afternoon. 
SAT NIGHT  W wind 10 to 20 kt becoming 5 to 15 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. NW swell 7 ft at 8 seconds. 
SUN  W wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 ft or less. NW swell 6 ft at  10 seconds.

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