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Monday, June 19, 2006
No easy solutions to die-off at Hood Cana
UNION, Mason County (Seattle Times) — It's been three years since the last major die-off in Hood Canal, when thousands of sharks, sculpins, sea stars, octopi and other creatures suffocated in Hood Canal from lack of oxygen.
But that's not to say it has been an uneventful period. Full Story
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Gregoire: Hood Canal 'jewel' in grave danger
Taking up where her predecessor left off, Gov. Christine Gregoire on Friday designated cleanup of polluted Hood Canal as her first big environmental project. Full Story
Monday, March 14, 2005
Clearer waters ahead?
The eggs were valuable. The filets were not. When Skokomish tribal fishermen couldn’t profit from the tons of chum salmon they caught, they threw most of the dead fish into Hood Canal, where they figured crabs would eat them.
But last spring, after environmental activists started calling the lower end of Hood Canal a dead zone, government officials cited carcass dumping as one of many ways people contribute to the area’s blight. Full Story
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
In the Northwest: Hood Canal is worth saving -- and it won't be easy
"We're doing great things with river habitat, but we can't keep our salmon and our bottomfish healthy unless we have healthy estuaries," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash. "To save salmon we must save Hood Canal, and we must save Puget Sound." Full Story
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