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Salish Sea Ecosystem
Films
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The Salish Sea – A Single Body of Life
If you understood that the Salish Sea functions like a single living organism, would you appreciate it more?
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Why is the Salish Sea so rich with life?
The Salish Sea is a giant mixing bowl where nutrients from mountains and the deep offshore Pacific are stirred together by tidal currents into life-giving waters.
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Dance of the Herring
Surprisingly, herring are almost invisible as they spawn. So this year I went looking for the herring.
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Pacific Salmon and their Circle of Life
A chronicle of the life stages of Pacific Salmon, viewed through the life of coastal Chum Salmon.
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Herring Roe Fishery in the Strait of Georgia (2020)
I spend two days amid the commercial herring roe fishery along the shores of Denman Island, saddened by what I see.
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Herring: Why Kill the Foundation of the Salish Sea?
As I watch a frenzy of gulls, sea lions and eagles feeding on spawning herring while the herring fleet offloads its catch, I reflect on the ecological role of herring and the folly of the commercial herring fishery.
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Herring Spawn! Serengeti of the Sea – Hornby Island, BC
Perhaps the most extraordinary day I have ever spent on the ocean was the day in my kayak in a small herring spawn on the shores of Hornby Island
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Seasons in the Sound
A tour through the seasons of Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound marked by Nature’s events