Lost fishing nets strewn along the bottom of Puget Sound have been drowning thousands of fish, birds, seals, crabs and other marine life each year. And some of these ghost nets have been silently killing creatures for a decade or more.
But now a local conservation group will have the support it needs to clean up [...]
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Project will nearly eliminate deadly ghost nets in Puget Sound
Explainer | Copper and other pollutants threaten marine life
Copper can be effective in keeping algae, barnacles and other pests that plague the bottom of boats at bay.
The trouble is that it doesn’t always stay put, leaching into the water where at even miniscule amounts, the seemingly innocuous metal can harm salmon. And the boatyards where vessels are scraped, blasted clean and painted are a [...]
Marinas cleaning up their act
If Puget Sound is battling a death of a thousand cuts, the Clean Marina Washington program is helping stop the bleeding.
Many of the region’s largest marinas participate in the voluntary program that aims to keep oil, sewage and trash out of the fragile marine environment. Last week the Port of Bremerton joined the effort and [...]
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