Northwest Dive Club

Hi
I read some article a while back about some tests they were doing in Canada about wrapping creosote pilings with nettings/coverings, to enable the herring eggs that typically die when layed on creotsote pilings, to survive. There were grand hopes that with this fix, that the herring would rapidly return to the area in a massive population re-explosion. Does anybody have info on this? How successful was this, and are there efforts to do a similar plan in the sound or the san juans?

Thanks!
-Eric

Hi
Here's one of the original articles about it: http://www.squamishreporter.com/2012/08 ... _bYj8t0xzk

There looks to be continued efforts in this project by the Streamkeepers, with an update on June 2014:
http://www.sqterminals.com/community/in ... amkeepers/

Anyone know if anyone is looking at this in Puget sound?

This article mentions a herring crash in the sound. Is Cherry Point near pilings?
http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/jul/ ... g-similar/

YellowEye wrote: This article mentions a herring crash in the sound. Is Cherry Point near pilings?

I don't know what kind of pilings the refinery pier at Cherry Point has. I believe that that recent expansion plans may have been derailed by environmental concerns.