Beach Seine

Join Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife fish Biologist, Larry Phillips, for a beach seine at Priest Point Park

Come experience the nearshore bounty of Budd Inlet!

The nearshore and open waters of lower Puget Sound are highly productive. Juvenile salmon, sand lance and Pacific staghorn sculpin all utilize the nearshore environment’s shallow waters to rest, feed or spawn. These fish are critical to the larger marine food web and the integrity of the nearshore environments of Puget Sound.

Participants will help unroll a seining net and pull the net to shore to see what is caught. Larry will identify and talk about the fish and other marine creatures that are found in the net and their importance to the health of our nearshore ecosystems. All creatures caught will be returned to the water unharmed.

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