4/5 Apricot Beauty tulip, ocean plastic, snailfish, dead whale, L Whatcom, green crab

Apricot Beauty tulip

Apricot Beauty tulip (1953)
“Delectable anywhere,” writes garden-guru Ann Lovejoy, “it should be planted by the bagful.” Lightly fragrant and winner of multiple awards including the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit, this popular tulip has been celebrated for its dreamy and unusual color for over 60 years. (Old House Gardens)

How Plastic Opens Fish Up to Disease
Higher death rates, bigger viral loads, and more viral shedding—plastic causes big problems for rainbow trout trying to fend off a common disease. Elise Cutts reports. (Hakai Magazine)

Check out the deepest-swimming fish ever caught on camera
...Scientists working off the coast of Japan say they've managed to capture images of the deepest-swimming fish ever caught on camera. The unknown snailfish species, of the genus Pseudoliparis, was recorded swimming in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench at a depth of 8,336 meters — or more than 27,000 feet down. Jon Hernandez reports. (NPR)

Dead whale that washed up on Fox Island beach was hit by a vessel, necropsy shows
A gray whale that washed up on a Fox Island beach was most likely killed in a collision with a ship, a necropsy showed. Craig Sailor reports. (Tacoma News Tribune)

Lake Whatcom water quality shows signs of recovery, concerns remain
Water quality in Lake Whatcom has improved marginally in recent years, according to new data from Western Washington University researchers. Monthly sampling at four sites around the lake — which monitors algae, dissolved oxygen and phosphorus levels, among other things — shows very slow improvements in nutrient levels. JuliA Lerner reports. (CDN)

Shellfish growers in Northwest's oyster capital want 'blitz' against invasive green crabs
Shellfish growers in Willapa Bay in southwest Washington, the self-styled "Oyster Capital of the World," are alarmed by an invasion of potentially destructive non-native European green crabs. Some are asking for an all-out trapping offensive to corral the invasive species. Tom Banse reports. (NW News Network)

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Now, your tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  314 AM PDT Wed Apr 5 2023   SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH  THURSDAY EVENING   
TODAY  SE wind 5 to 15 kt. Wind waves 2 ft or less building to  3 to 5 ft in the afternoon. W swell 2 ft at 6 seconds building to  4 ft at 7 seconds in the afternoon. A chance of rain in the  afternoon. 
TONIGHT  E wind 10 to 20 kt becoming SE 15 to 25 kt after  midnight. Wind waves 2 to 4 ft. W swell 6 ft at 7 seconds  building to 10 ft at 8 seconds after midnight. Rain likely in the  evening then rain after midnight.

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