The Campbell River Association of Tour Operators finished (CRATO) cleaning up Vancouver Island’s shoreline from Comox to Chatham Point, at the entrance of the Johnstone Strait, and is now working in the northern Discovery Islands.
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Southern resident killer whales are not starving due to lack of BC chinook, study finds
The widespread belief that at-risk southern resident killer whales are starving due to a lack of chinook salmon has been debunked.
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Connecting Cortes Island to Lund and beyond
As of November 1st, a new Water Taxi & Cargo Deliveries service will be connecting Lund to the government wharf at Cortes Bay, on Mondays and Fridays.
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Heat wave killed far more marine animals than originally thought, says scientist
UBC marine ecologist Dr. Chris Harley initially told the media that more than a billion mussels, clams, sea stars and other invertebrates may have cooked to death in the area between Campbell River and Washington state. That was a ‘back of the envelope’ estimate, based on his observations among the Lower Mainland’s mussel population and some preliminary reports. Harley has done a great deal more research since then. He now guesstimates that, conservatively speaking, the number of marine fatalities during last June’s heat wave is closer to 10 billion.
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Tidemark Theatre reopens with ‘the Magnitude of All Things”
CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Campbell River’s Tidemark Theatre is reopening at 7 PM Friday, September 17th with a showing of Vancouver film maker Jennifer Abbott’s ’The Magnitude of All Things.’
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