You Can Help Protect Eelgrass for Salmon and Orca!
Boaters have an important role to play in protecting the marine environment. When boating in the San Juans, you are surrounded by many marine creatures such as birds, seals, porpoise, and whales. A bounty of life is beneath the surface as well where kelp forests and eelgrass prairies are teeming with activity.
Where you choose to drop your anchor can impact the health of eelgrass, salmon and orca. How does protecting eelgrass help save Orca? Eelgrass provides nursery habitat, food and shelter for marine critters such as Dungeness crab, juvenile salmon, and salmon prey like sand lance, surf smelt and Pacific herring. Young Chinook salmon utilize eelgrass to hide from predators, rest and feed while on their migration from freshwater to the sea. And Chinook are the preferred food for our local Orca whales. |
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To protect eelgrass, anchor deeper than...
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