2015 Puget Sound Marine Waters Overview

By Produced by NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center for the Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program’s Marine Waters Workgroup
Published September 27, 2016

The Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program released its fifth annual Marine Waters Overview this week. The report provides an assessment of marine conditions for the year 2015 and includes updates on water quality as well as status reports for select plankton, seabirds, fish and marine mammals.

Puget Sound Marine Waters 2015 report cover

According to the report, water temperatures in 2015 broke records throughout Puget Sound. The year also marked the worst on record for two distinct stocks of the region's Pacific herring. Download the full report (external link).

About the Author
The Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program (PSEMP) is a
collaboration of monitoring professionals, researchers, and data
users from federal, tribal, state, and local government agencies,
universities, non-governmental organizations, watershed groups,
businesses, and private and volunteer groups.

The objective of PSEMP is to create and support a collaborative,
inclusive, and transparent approach to regional monitoring and
assessment that builds upon and facilitates communication among
the many monitoring programs and efforts operating in Puget Sound.
PSEMP’s fundamental goal is to assess progress towards the
recovery of the health of Puget Sound.

The Marine Waters Workgroup is one of several technical workgroups
operating under the PSEMP umbrella – with a specific focus on the
inland marine waters of Puget Sound and the greater Salish Sea,
including the oceanic, atmospheric, and terrestrial influences and
drivers affecting the Sound. For more information about PSEMP
and the Marine Waters Workgroup, please visit: https://sites.google.
com/a/psemp.org/psemp/.

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Algae, Circulation, Climate change, Disease, Eutrophication, Forage fish, Harbor porpoise, Harmful algal blooms, Hypoxia, Marine birds, Marine habitat, Marine Waters Overview, Monitoring, Salmonids, Selected publications, Sewage and fecal pollution, Shellfish, Species and food webs, Stormwater, Water quality, Water quantity, Estuarine habitat, Nearshore habitat, Freshwater habitat