The Whale Museum’s Virtual Gear Down Workshop for Marine Naturalists

||| FROM TATE THOMSON for THE WHALE MUSEUM |||

Register now for The Whale Museum’s Virtual Gear Down Workshop on November 15 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. This year’s theme is: All Rivers Lead to Whales. The workshop will be entirely virtual through Zoom.

Invited Presenters include:

• Madison Rose Bristol, Water Quality 6PPD Planner, and Bryson Finch, Senior Toxicologist,
  Washington State Department of Ecology on 6PPD-quinone and update on Washington State being first state in the nation to establish freshwater limit.
• Kaitlin Yehle, Fisheries Biologist, SkeenaWild Conservation Trust on Alaska’s commercial salmon fisheries and impacts on Southern Resident killer whales (SRKWs).
• Dave Scott, Research and Restoration Coordinator for the Lower Fraser Salmon Program, Raincoast Foundation on Healthy Waters Program and Fraser River salmon recovery projects.
• Jacob Lerner, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia on seasonal variation in fat content of Fraser River Chinook salmon and implications for SRKW prey quality.
• Eva Stredulinsky, Aquatic Biologist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada on foraging research & resident killer whales.
• Julie Watson, Killer Whale Policy Lead, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife.
• Katie Pruit, Salmon Recovery Coordinator, Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office on SRKW vessel regulations and progress on the Statewide Salmon Strategy & salmon in the context of SRKW recovery.

The registration fee is $35 for non-members; $25 for current TWM or SSAMN members. Questions can be directed to Tracie Merrill at tracie@whalemuseum.org. Zoom link and workshop agenda will be sent to registrants at email provided at registration closer to start of workshop. For more information and/or to register, please HERE.