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	<title>Sea Life</title>
	
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	<description>Explore aquatic animals, plants and seaweeds that inspire everything from cinematic monsters to tasty dishes to local economies.</description>
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		<title>Surf’s up on the Salish Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ducks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overwintering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leave the board on your woodie though. Surf scoters (one of my top five most beautiful ducks) have moved in for the winter. The dramatic contrast of black/white/orange on the male surf scoter’s head is strikingly beautiful, though the Halloween colored heads are not the only reason I connect with these birds. Surf scoters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whales and bugs, snails and slugs, seaweed and salmon too</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a plug. In part because Washington Sea Grant is a sponsor, but in larger part because this is a great opportunity not to be missed and to be encouraged into the future! Inspired by the South Sound Science Symposium and Island County’s Sound Waters, Kitsap Beach Watchers volunteers and staff are bringing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windy days and low dissolved oxygen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stressors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hood Canal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NANOOS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a good day to breath air in the southern Hood Canal. Once again, winds from the south push Hood Canal’s water north and leave southern Hood Canal belching&#160; oxygen depleted water up to the surface. I blogged about it September 20th last year (From the south blows an ill wind) with some details and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thingy Thursday: Catch cards and a confounding crab</title>
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		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2011/09/22/thingy-thursday-catch-cards-and-a-confounding-crab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crabs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invasive Species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spineless (marine)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stressors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Few of us get a chance to see the full diversity of the Salish Sea’s crabs. Many species never venture onto the beaches. Others are small and hide well. Some even remain tucked away inside a large clam or mussel. For all the wonder, economic benefit and gastronomical pleasure crabs provide, there are several species [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep the butter out of your belly and your shovel out of the sand</title>
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		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2011/08/03/keep-the-butter-out-of-your-belly-and-your-shovel-out-of-the-sand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crabs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spineless (marine)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stressors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) toxins produced by microscopic marine algae… King and east Kitsap Counties are closed to harvest of all shellfish species including clams and geoduck, oysters, mussels, and other invertebrates such as the moon snail (which are no longer legally harvestable anyway). The meat from crabs is not known to contain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Express your inner scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invasive Species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spineless (freshwater)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[butterflies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[invasive]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spartina]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Get home from a day’s labor, crack a beer, sit on the porch and appreciate a butterfly nectaring on a nearby flower and the evening summer sun that makes a dragonfly glow while it hunts with incredible speed and precision, eating on the fly. Is that bush blooming already? You just won a tough case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrific Tides and Getting Crab Crazy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spineless (marine)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dungeness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[low tide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red rock]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dust off the crab pots (both the one with holes and the one with boiling water), it’s crab season! The long awaited day has arrived (as of 7:00am today, 7/1), and many will feast on freshly caught crabs for the holiday. After all, Dungeness crabs are as Northwest’erican as espresso and apple pie. Don’t forget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrific tides and Bremerton’s Lions Park</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/puget-sea-life/~3/NkXih6qXmdM/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2011/06/14/terrific-tides-and-bremertons-lions-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spineless (marine)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beach walks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lions park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low tides]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to some of the summer’s lowest tides, there’s great fun on the beaches this week. I’ll put a few events below. If you know of others, please add them as comments. I also wanted to recommend one of my favorite local beaches. The fast currents that rush through Bremerton’s Port Washington Narrows (the shallow, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat specificity… or… home, home on the whale</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/puget-sea-life/~3/uU23IoWdL2A/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2011/05/20/habitat-specificity-or-home-home-on-the-whale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 17:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mammals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spineless (marine)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barnacles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog referral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humpback]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve really been enjoying a blog by Jackie Hildering, “The Marine Detective” from Port McNeill, BC. In her most recent post to themarinedetective.com, she share a story of a relationships between species that literally build upon each other. In Humpback Whale Gooseneck Barnacles?! She shares the wonder of diversity and discovery that never ceases to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last chance for a close shave</title>
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		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/2011/05/18/last-chance-for-a-close-shave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 08:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Places]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[clamming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domoic acid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jackknife clam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outer coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[razor clam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shellfish harvest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Coast]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/?p=623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last opportunity of the season to collect our outer coast’s famous razor clams (Siliqua patula – Latin for Pod open since it looks like a newly germinated seed pod) is today (5/18) through Sunday (5/22). The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has a whole series of pages devoted to razor clams, including how [...]]]></description>
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