Raincoast scientists summarize decades of literature so you can understand what’s happening on the coast
New fact-sheets make the science clear, with the goal of educating the public in challenging times.
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Pacific Herring: Underpinning the coastal foodweb
One of the most abundant fish in BC waters, Raincoast scientists are studying the interactions between Pacific Herring and the coastal food web. Studies include the relationships between herring spawn events and the terrestrial mammals who feed upon them.
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Protecting (marine) subsidies – nutrient flows from ocean to land
Researchers at Raincoast aimed to determine if the nutrients that herring contribute to intertidal and subtidal ecosystems during spawning events are cycling through coastal food webs. To determine this, our scientists adopted techniques used in salmon research ….
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Pacific herring spawn events influence nearshore subtidal and intertidal species
Although we know that herring play a pivotal ecological role in nearshore ecosystems, from a scientific perspective little is known about the amount of energy and nutrients they transfer from the ocean to the land. Therefore, researchers at Raincoast Conservation Foundation, University of Victoria, and Dalhousie University, aimed to determine if the nutrients that herring…
