Reporter Emily Heffter has the story in the Seattle Times: COUPEVILLE, Whidbey Island — The Front Street Grill rolled out a new menu two weeks ago that offers — count them — 11 ways to prepare Penn Cove mussels. Those include the signature Front Street Grill coconut green-curry mussels, saffron mussels, barbecue mussels, and something [...]

Reporter Craig Welch has the story in the Seattle Times: It’s been eight years since baby oysters started dying by the billions at an Oregon hatchery and in Washington’s Willapa Bay. In 2009, top scientists drew global attention when they said evidence suggested the culprit might be changing ocean chemistry from the same greenhouse gases [...]

Reporter Sandi Doughton has the story in the Seattle Times: Most of the seal pups Robin Lindsey tries to save don’t make it. That’s why Sandy’s story seemed especially sweet. The young female was so emaciated, her ribs jutted out and her skin hung in folds when she hauled out on a West Seattle beach [...]

A dry dock holding the 140-foot tug Invader sunk on Saturday in Everett. U.S. Coast Guard photo. Update 3.20.12: Salvage crews have set the dock level so that it rests on the bottom at its mooring. The tug is afloat, listing 90 degrees on its starboard side, but crews sealed its fuel tanks to prevent [...]

Salmon Bay Marine Center and Affinity Marina, both in Seattle, are the latest to be certified under the Clean Marina Washington program. There are now 61 marinas certified under the program, a voluntary, incentive-based initiative which helps marinas assess their operations and make improvements to better protect the environment. Salmon Bay Marine Center, a super [...]

Authorities are working to reduce poaching of wild geoduck in Washington waters, after surveys in South Puget Sound showed that populations of the native clams are dwindling. Surveys of closed commercial geoduck tracts conducted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) showed that recovery rates in nearly a dozen tracts have significantly slowed [...]