Following Season's Progress
Eulachon and Herring have already passed through. 
Here is an image from
early April
that shows plankton bloom in Hecate well advanced.
Its in areas where herring spawn hatches into. Amazing.
While the eulachon were surprisingly abundant on the Skeena the herring were not.
Skunk Cabbage as our "Easter Lily"
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These harbingers of spring deserve a better name |
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Inconspicuous heralds of Spring
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Marine Algae are springing back
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Image on left is fucus on sewage outfall; Harbour. Right is estuary/ slough Hays Creek greening up with algae |
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