5/16 Spearnose poacher, cruise ship pollution, humans and pollinators, DFO salmon farm virus

Northern Spearnose Poacher

Northern Spearnose Poacher Agonopsis vulsa
The northern spearnose poacher, also known as the window-tailed sea-poacher or the windowtail poacher, is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1880, originally under the genus Agonus. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the eastern Pacific Ocean, including southeastern Alaska to southern California. It dwells at a depth range of 0 to 163 metres (0 to 535 ft). Males can reach a maximum total length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in). (Wikipedia)

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Endangered orca habitat sullied by Canadian cruise ship pollution
Cruise ships are jeopardizing endangered southern resident killer whales by dumping billions of litres of polluted wastewater into the ocean, new federal government documents reveal.There was a 14-fold increase in the total number of ships employing scrubber technology in coastal waters between 2018 and 2022, recent data submitted by Environment and Climate Change Canada to an international environment organization revealed. Rochelle Baker reports. (Canadian Press)

New Indigenous-led PacSci exhibit connects humans and pollinators
The living pathway invites Pacific Science Center guests to form relationships with their surrounding environment through observation. Skylar Stekly reports. (Crosscut)

B.C. First Nation to reactivate judicial review of DFO’s salmon farm virus policy
A B.C. First Nation says it has lost faith in federal plans to remove open net-pens from the province’s ocean salmon farms and is reluctantly relaunching legal action it had on hold that challenges Fisheries Department aquaculture policy. (Canadian Press)

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Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  244 AM PDT Thu May 16 2024    SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH  FRIDAY MORNING    
TODAY  SW wind 5 to 15 kt becoming W 10 to 20 kt in the  afternoon. Wind waves 1 to 3 ft. W swell 4 ft at 11 seconds.  
TONIGHT  W wind 15 to 25 kt becoming NW after midnight. Wind  waves 2 to 4 ft. W swell 4 ft at 13 seconds.

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