Class is in session on the Salish Sea

ByNicholas Sinclair 2018-06-042018-06-06 Achiever

students line the beach on a blue sky day on the Salish Sea.

Class is in session! Raincoast vessel Achiever is a floating classroom exploring the Salish Sea with conservation leaders of tomorrow.

Man in sunglasses and black suit lies on the brown leaves and green shoots covered ground in the Great Bear rainforest, relaxing

Raincoast research

Captain Kyle on coffee break

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Captain Kyle on coffee break…

Two hands, one with bracelets on wrist of a white person holds up a rectangular trasn[arent box with a little bit of water and a juvenile salmon in it

Fraser River

Immediate success for salmon recovery at Steveston Jetty

2020-04-292020-09-06

The Steveston Jetty is only one of the many structures dividing the Fraser estuary, altering the movement of salmon, freshwater, and fine sediments to Sturgeon and Roberts Banks.

Shot of sand on a beach with some rocks in the distance and a closeup of a jeelyfish called Vellella Vellella on Calvert Island

Outdoor life

Have you seen these jellyfish washing up on BC beaches this summer? We saw this one on Calvert Island. They’re called By-the-wind-sailor, sea raft, purple sail, or little sail – or by their scientific name Velella velella. They eat plankton and are eaten by nudibranchs. It looks like just one individual but it’s actually a whole colony of all-male OR all-female polyps! Some polyps are in charge of reproduction while others are for protection.

Juvenile salmon measuring ;ess than 5 centimetres shown displayed inside a plastic glass box with a ruler in the bottom. Box and fish are being held by two hands visible in the picture, with a blurred background of grass, and blue sky beside water

Fraser River

Port of Vancouver expansion set to destroy estuary habitat

2020-02-262020-03-22

The Port of Vancouver is proposing to expand the existing terminal at Deltaport doubling its capacity to offload containers through the creation of a 108-hectare berth in the heart of the Fraser River estuary at Roberts Bank…