Dungeness Crab Monitoring Program: 2024 Summary

Dungeness Crab Monitoring Program: 2024 Summary

Join us as we delve into the highlights and recap this season’s larval Dungeness crab monitoring efforts at Ch’axáy̓ / Horseshoe Bay. This past summer marked the MSI’s 3rd year participating in the Hakai Institute Sentinels of Change initiative to monitor...
2024 Marine Debris Clean Up

2024 Marine Debris Clean Up

If you have spent time in Átl’ka7tsem / Howe Sound, you know that winter storms wreak havoc on coastal infrastructure and that strong winds and currents disperse debris throughout the Sound. In an effort to keep Átl’ka7tsem clean, the MSI partnered with the incredible...
Research Spotlight: Dungeness Crabs

Research Spotlight: Dungeness Crabs

The light trap at Ch’ax̱áy̓ / Horseshoe Bay has been in the water fishing for Dungeness megalopae (the last larval stage of Dungeness crabs) for three months now. We found our first Dungeness megalopa on June 2nd, and as of June 17th our volunteers have counted 328...
Slhawt’ / Herring Films

Slhawt’ / Herring Films

Since 2020, the Átl’ka7tsem / Howe Sound Marine Stewardship Initiative (MSI) and Squamish Nation Ta na wa Yúus ta Stitúyntsam̓ / Rights & Titles Department have partnered to survey, monitor, and document slhawt’ / herring spawn in Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound on an...
Ocean Week 2024

Ocean Week 2024

Ocean Week Canada is a national celebration of ocean events, learning, and engagement held during the week of World Oceans Day (June 8). Through these activities and events we strengthen our understanding and our bond with our great blue backyard. In 2024, Ocean Week...